Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   August 8                                              Responsible recovery

      "...we accept responsibility for our problems and see that we're
                   equally responsible for our solutions."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 94

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   Some of us, well accustomed to leaving our personal responsibilities to
   others, may attempt the same behavior in recovery.  We quickly find out it
   doesn't work.

   For instance, we are considering making a change in our lives, so we call
   our sponsor and ask what we should do.   Under the guise of seeking
   direction, we are actually asking our sponsor to assume responsibility for
   making decisions about our life.  Or maybe we've been short with someone
   at a meeting, so we ask that person's best friend to make our apologies
   for us.  Perhaps we've imposed on a friend several times in the last
   month to cover our service commitment.   Could it be that we've asked a
   friend to analyze our behavior and identify our shortcomings, rather than
   taking our own personal inventory?

   Recovery is something that has to be worked for.  It isn't going to be
   handed to us on a silver platter, nor can we expect our friends or our
   sponsor to be responsible for the work we must do ourselves.  We recover
   by making our own decisions, doing our own service, and working our own
   steps.  By doing it for ourselves, we receive the rewards.

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   Just for today:  I accept responsibility for my life and my recovery.