Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   June 23                                                          Surrender

    "We didn't stumble into this fellowship brimming with love, honesty,
      open-mindedness, or willingness....  When we were beaten, we became
                                  willing."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 20

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   Surrender may be the necessary foundation for recovery, but sometimes we
   fight it.  Most of us look back after some clean time and wonder why on
   earth we fought so hard to deny our powerlessness when surrender is what
   finally saved our lives.

   As we recover, new opportunities to surrender present themselves.  We can
   either struggle with everyone and everything we encounter or we can recall
   the benefits of our first surrender and stop fighting.

   Most of the pain we experience comes from fighting, not surrendering.   In
   fact, when we surrender, the pain ends and hope takes its place.  We begin
   to believe that all will be well and, after some time, realize that our
   lives are much better as a result.  We feel the same way we did when we
   gave up the illusion that we could control our using-relieved, free, and
   filled with fresh hope.

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   Just for today:   Is there a surrender I  need to make today?   I  will
   remember my first surrender and remind myself that I don't need to fight
   anymore.