Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   April 14                                                      A new vision

   "Do we really want to be rid of our resentments, our anger, our fear?"

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   Why do we call them "shortcomings"?   Perhaps they should be called
   "long-goings," because that's often what it takes for them to fade
   from our lives.   Some of us feel that our shortcomings are the very
   characteristics that saved our lives when we used.  If this is true, then
   it is little wonder that we sometimes cling to them like old, dear
   friends.

   If we are having trouble with resentment, anger, or fear, we may want to
   envision what our lives could be like without these troubling defects.
   Asking ourselves why we react in a certain manner can sometimes root out
   the fear at the core of our conduct.  "Why am I afraid to step beyond
   these aspects of my personality?" we ask ourselves.  "Am I afraid of
   who I will be without these attributes?"

   Once we have uncovered our fear, we are able to move beyond it.  We try to
   imagine what our lives could be like without some of our more glaring
   shortcomings.   This gives us a feeling for what lies past our fear,
   providing the motivation we need to push through it.   Our Higher Power
   offers us a new vision for our lives, free of our defects.  That vision is
   the essence of our own best, brightest dreams for ourselves.  We need not
   fear that vision.

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   Just for today:   I will imagine what my life would be like without my
   character defects.  I will ask for the willingness to have God remove my
   shortcomings.