Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   October 17                                                 "The Truth"

      "Everything we know is subject to revision, especially what we know
                              about the truth."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 97

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   Many of us thought we could recognize "The Truth." We believed the
   truth was one thing, certain and unchanging, which we could grasp easily
   and without question.    The real truth, however, was that we often
   couldn't see the truth if it hit us square in the face.  Our disease
   colored everything in our lives, especially our perception of the
   truth-in fact, what we "knew" about the truth nearly killed us.
   Before we could begin to recognize truth, we had to switch our allegiance
   from our addiction to a Higher Power, the source of all that is good and
   true.

   The truth has changed as our faith in a Higher Power has grown.   As
   we've worked the steps, our entire lives have begun to change through
   the healing power of the principles of recovery.  In order to open the
   door for that change, we have had to surrender our attachment to an
   unchanging and rigid truth.

   The truth becomes purer and simpler each time we encounter it.  And just
   as the steps work in our lives every day-if we allow them-our
   understanding of the truth may change each day as we grow.

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   Just for today:  I will open my eyes and my heart to the changes brought
   about by the steps.  With an open mind, I can understand the truth in my
   life today.