Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   July 26                                            Unconditional surrender

       "Help for addicts begins only when we are able to admit complete
     defeat.  This can be frightening, but it is the foundation on which we
                            have built our lives."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 22

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   Most of us have tried everything we can think of, exerted every ounce of
   force possible, to fill the spiritual hole inside us.    Nothing-not
   drugs, not control and management, not sex, money, property, power, or
   prestige-has filled it.  We are powerless; our lives are unmanageable,
   at least by ourselves alone.  Our denial will not change that fact.

   So we surrender; we ask a Higher Power to care for our will and our
   lives.  Sometimes in surrendering, we don't know that a Power greater
   than ourselves exists which can restore us to wholeness.    Sometimes
   we're not sure that the God of our understanding will care for our
   unmanageable lives.  Our lack of certainty, though, does not affect the
   essential truth:  We are powerless.  Our lives are unmanageable.  We must
   surrender.  Only by doing so can we open ourselves wide-wide enough for
   our old ideas and past wreckage to be cleared, wide enough for a Higher
   Power to enter.

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   Just for today:  I will surrender unconditionally.  I can make it as easy
   or as hard as I choose.  Either way, I will do it.