Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   November 5                                                God's guidance

   "Our Higher Power is accessible to us at all times.  We receive guidance
              when we ask for knowledge of God's will for us."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 92

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   It's not always easy to make the right decision.   This is especially
   true for addicts learning to live by spiritual principles for the first
   time.  In addiction, we developed self-destructive, anti-social impulses.
   When conflict arose, we took our cues from those negative impulses.   Our
   disease didn't prepare us to make sound decisions.

   Today, to find the direction we need, we ask our Higher Power.  We stop;
   we pray; and, quietly, we listen within for guidance.   We've come to
   believe that we can rely on a Power greater than ourselves.  That Power is
   accessible to us whenever we need it.    All we need do is pray for
   knowledge of our God's will for us and the power to carry it out.

   Each time we do this, each time we find direction amidst our confusion,
   our faith grows.   The more we rely on our Higher Power, the easier it
   becomes to ask for direction.  We've found the Power we were lacking in
   our addiction, a Power that is available to us at all times.  To find the
   direction we need to live fully and grow spiritually, all we have to do is
   maintain contact with the God of our understanding.

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   Just for today:  My Higher Power is a source of spiritual guidance within
   me that I can always draw upon.   When I lack direction today, I will ask
   for knowledge of my Higher Power's will.