Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   July 9                                                      We do recover!

   "...the time has come when that tired old lie, 'Once an addict, always
   an addict,' will no longer be tolerated by either society or the addict
                          himself.  We do recover."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 89

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   From time to time, we hear speakers share that they don't really
   understand spiritual principles yet.   They tell us that if we knew what
   went on in their minds, we'd be amazed at how insane they still are.
   They tell us that the longer they're clean, the less they know about
   anything.   In the next breath, these same speakers tell us about the
   profound changes recovery has made in their lives.  They have moved from
   complete despair to unfailing hope, from uncontrollable drug use to total
   abstinence, from chronic unmanageability to responsibility through working
   the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous.   Which story is true?  Do we or
   don't we recover?

   We may think we demonstrate humility or gratitude by underplaying the
   change that recovery has brought to our lives.  True, we do injustice to
   the program when we take credit for this miracle ourselves.  But we do an
   equal injustice-to ourselves and to those we share with-when we
   don't acknowledge this miracle's magnitude.

   We do recover.  If we have trouble seeing the miracle of recovery, we'd
   better look again.    Recovery is alive and at work in  Narcotics
   Anonymous-in our oldtimers, in the newcomers flooding our meetings, and
   most of all in ourselves.  All we have to do is open our eyes.

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   Just for today:   I will acknowledge the miracle of my recovery and be
   grateful that I've found it.