Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   April 30                                                   God does for us

   "Ongoing recovery is dependent on our relationship with a loving God who
       cares for us and will do for us what we find impossible to do for
                                 ourselves."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 99

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   How often have we heard it said in meetings that "God does for us what
   we cannot do for ourselves"?  At times we may get stuck in our recovery,
   unable, afraid, or unwilling to make the decisions we know we must make to
   move forward.   Perhaps we are unable to end a relationship that just
   isn't working.  Maybe our job has become a source of too much conflict.
   Or perhaps we feel we need to find a new sponsor but are afraid to begin
   the search.  Through the grace of our Higher Power, unexpected change may
   occur in precisely the area we felt unable to alter.

   We sometimes allow ourselves to become stuck in the problem instead of
   moving forward toward the solution.  At these times, we often find that
   our Higher Power does for us what we cannot do for ourselves.  Perhaps our
   partner decides to end our relationship.   We may get fired or laid off.
   Or our sponsor tells us that he or she can no longer work with us, forcing
   us to look for a new one.

   Sometimes what occurs in our lives can be frightening, as change often
   seems.  But we also hear that "God never closes a door without opening
   another one." As we move forward with faith, the strength of our Higher
   Power is never far from us.   Our recovery is strengthened by these
   changes.

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   Just for today:  I trust that the God of my understanding will do for me
   what I cannot do for myself.