Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   June 26                                             Surrendering self-will

    "Our fears are lessened and faith begins to grow as we learn the true
      meaning of surrender.  We are no longer fighting fear, anger, guilt,
                          self-pity, or depression."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 27

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   Surrender is the beginning of a new way of life.  When driven primarily by
   self-will, we constantly wondered whether we'd covered all the bases,
   whether we'd manipulated that person in just the right way to achieve
   our ends, whether we'd missed a critical detail in our efforts to
   control and manage the world.  We either felt afraid, fearing our schemes
   would fail; angry or self-pitying when they fell through; or guilty when
   we pulled them off.   It was hard, living on self-will, but we didn't
   know any other way.

   Not that surrender is always easy.  On the contrary, surrender can be
   difficult, especially in the beginning.   Still, it's easier to trust
   God, a Power capable of managing our lives, than to trust only ourselves,
   whose lives are unmanageable.   And the more we surrender, the easier it
   gets.

   When we turn our will and our lives over to the care of our Higher Power,
   all we have to do is our part, as responsibly and conscientiously as we
   can.   Then we can leave the results up to our Higher Power.    By
   surrendering, acting on faith, and living our lives according to the
   simple spiritual principles of this program, we can stop worrying and
   start living.

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   Just for today:   I will surrender self-will.  I  will seek knowledge of
   God's will for me and the power to carry it out.  I  will leave the
   results in my Higher Power's hands.