Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   February 24                                                A new influence

         "Personality change was what we really needed.  Change from
            self-destructive patterns of life became necessary."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 15

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   In early life, most of us were capable of joy and wonder, of giving and
   receiving unconditional love.   When we started using, we introduced an
   influence into our lives that slowly drove us away from those things.  The
   further we were pushed down the path of addiction, the further we withdrew
   from joy, wonder, and love.

   That journey was not taken overnight.    But however long it took, we
   arrived at the doors of NA  with more than just a drug problem.   The
   influence of addiction had warped our whole pattern of living beyond
   recognition.

   The Twelve Steps work miracles, it's true, but not many of them are
   worked overnight.  Our disease slowly influenced our spiritual development
   for the worse.  Recovery introduces a new influence to our lives, a source
   of fellowship and spiritual strength slowly impelling us into new, healthy
   patterns of living.

   This change, of course, doesn't "just happen." But if we cooperate
   with the new influence NA has brought to our lives, over time we will
   experience the personality change we call recovery.   The Twelve Steps
   provide us with a program for the kind of cooperation required to restore
   joy, wonder, and love to our lives.

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   Just for today:  I will cooperate with the new influence of fellowship and
   spiritual strength NA has introduced to my life.  I  will work the next
   step in my program.