Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   November 12                                                  Our own story

     "When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with
                                     us."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 95

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   Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous
   conventions.   We remember the audience alternating between tears of
   identification and joyous hilarity.  "Someday," we may think, "I'm
   going to be a main speaker at a convention, too."

   Well, for many of us, that day has yet to arrive.  Once in awhile we may
   be asked to speak at a meeting near where we live.   We might speak at a
   small convention workshop.   But after all this time, we're still not
   "hot" convention speakers-and that's okay.  We've learned that
   we, too, have a special message to share, even if it's only at a local
   meeting with fifteen or twenty addicts in attendance.

   Each of us has only our own story to tell; that's it.  We can't tell
   anyone else's story.  Every time we get up to speak, many of us find all
   the clever lines and funny stories seem to disappear from our minds.   But
   we do have something to offer.  We carry the message of hope-we can and
   do recover from our addiction.  And that's enough.

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   Just for today:  I will remember that my honest story is what I share the
   best.  Today, that's enough.