the direction i have found in recovery is a direction i would never have followed while doin my dirt. it meant not doin what i wanted when or how i wanted to. i thought my will, the things i wanted, could be obtained by my ingenious plans and designs. it didnt matter the cost to...
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July 5 Exploring Spiritual Options "The nature of our belief will determine the manner of our prayers and meditation." Basic Text, p.43 How do we pray? For each NA member, this is a deeply personal matter. Many of us find that, over time, we develop a manner of prayer and meditation based on what we...
i cannot tell ya’ll that every minute of every day i carry with me peace of mind. even with years in recovery i still have to take the time to feel shit out, to think about whats goin on around me. yes, recovery has made many of the decisions i have to make much easier,...
when i combine willingness, honesty, and open-mindedness the result is humility. though i may feel like i have humility as i approach each essential separately, the combination of all 3 allow me to feel how i may use humility to become ever greater in my efforts for recovery. each are not items that need to...
im thankful for the progress i have made in my recovery. even as i am, there are times i can let my mouth override my ass. i reckon the fact that i can identify this today means that i have made progress usin the principles of recovery. today i have the advantage of a better...
recovery has given me a life that doesnt include loneliness. when in the past loneliness provided some kind of sick emotional peace within, i learned through good sponsorship and personal inventory that it was only a way for me to hide. it was a way for me to feed the resentment and fear that seemed...
today i am not so bankrupt spiritually as i once was. i know this because problems which used to baffle me no longer do. i still get stumped on some problems and need the conference with others in recovery, but for the simple shit, recovery has given me the solutions needed to move past em...
June 28 Group Conscience "Working with others is only the beginning of service work." Basic Text, p.56 Service work calls for a selfless devotion to carrying the message to the still-suffering addict. But our attitude of service cannot stop there. Service also requires that we look at ourselves and our motives. Our efforts at service...
when i think of the traditions and the way they can work in my life, i must think of how they were written and most importantly, why they were written. tradition 6 reminds me that determination, willingness, and perseverance of what recovery has taught me about myself, has to come from the wisdom and knowledge...
today i strive to live by the spiritual principles of recovery. i do this because recovery has shown me how to take my troubles as they come, how to maintain a calm and composed behavior amid pressin duties and unendin engagements, how to rise above the distressin and disturbin circumstances in which i am set...