Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   January 5                                                 Recovery at home

   "We can enjoy our families in a new way and may become a credit to them
                  instead of an embarrassment or a burden."

                                                           Basic Text, p. 104

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   We're doing great in recovery, aren't we?  We go to a meeting every
   day, we spend every evening with our friends in the fellowship, and every
   weekend we dash off to a service workshop.  But if things are falling to
   pieces at home, we're not doing so great after all.

   We expect our families to understand.  After all, we're not using drugs
   anymore.    Why don't they recognize our progress?    Don't they
   understand how important our meetings, our service, and our involvement
   with the fellowship are?

   Our families will not appreciate the change NA is working in our lives
   unless we show them.  If we rush off to a meeting the same way we rushed
   off to use drugs, what has changed?  If we continue to ignore the needs
   and desires of our partners and children, failing to accept  our
   responsibilities at home, we aren't "practicing these principles in
   all our affairs."

   We must live the program everywhere we go, in everything we do.  If we
   want the spiritual life to be more than a theory, we have to live it at
   home.  When we do this, the people we share our lives with are sure to
   notice the change and be grateful that we've found NA.

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   Just for today:  I will take my recovery home with me.