Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   January 16                                                 Make that call!

      "We feared that if we ever revealed ourselves as we were, we would
     surely be rejected....  [But] our fellow members do understand us."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 32

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   We need our fellow NA members-their experience, their friendship, their
   laughter, their guidance, and much, much more.  Yet many of us hesitate to
   call our sponsor or visit our NA friends.  We don't want to impose on
   them.  We think about phoning someone, but we don't feel worthy of their
   time.    We fear that if they ever got to know us-really  know
   us-they'd surely reject us.

   We forget that our fellow NA members are just like us.  There's nothing
   we've done, no place we've been, no feeling we've felt that other
   recovering addicts won't be able to identify with.   The more we let
   others get to know us, the more we'll hear, "You're in the right
   place.  You're among friends.  You belong.  Welcome!"

   We also forget that, just as we need others, they need us.  We're not
   the only ones who want to feel like we belong, who want to experience the
   warmth of friendship, who want someone to share with.   If we isolate
   ourselves from our fellow members, we deprive them of something they need,
   something only we can give them: our time, our company, our true selves.

   In Narcotics Anonymous, recovering addicts care for one another.   What
   waits at the other end of the telephone is not rejection, but the love,
   warmth, and identification of the NA Fellowship.  Make that call!

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   Just for today:  In NA, I am among friends.  I will reach out to others,
   giving and receiving in fellowship.