Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   November 6                                          Understanding humility

          "Humility is a result of getting honest with ourselves."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 35

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   Humility was an idea so foreign to most of us that we ignored it as long
   as we could.  When we first saw the word "humbly" ahead in Step Seven,
   we may have figured it meant we had quite a bit of humiliation in store.
   Perhaps we chose to look it up in the dictionary, only to become even more
   confused by the definition.   We didn't understand how "lowliness and
   subservience" applied to recovery.

   To be humble does not mean we are the lowest form of life.   On the
   contrary, becoming humble means we attain a realistic view of ourselves
   and where we fit in the world.  We grow into a state of awareness founded
   on our acceptance of all aspects of ourselves.  We neither deny our good
   qualities nor overemphasize our defects.  We honestly accept who we are.

   No one of us will ever attain a state of perfect humility.   But we can
   certainly strive to honestly admit our faults, accept our assets, and rely
   on our Higher Power as a source of strength.  Humility doesn't mean we
   have to crawl life's path on our hands and knees; it just means we must
   admit we cannot recover on our own.  We need each other and, above all, we
   need the power of a loving God.

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   Just for today:   To be humble, I  will honestly accept all facets of
   myself, seeing my true place in the world.  For the strength I need to
   fill that place, I will rely on the God of my understanding.