Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   September 14                                      Secrets are reservations

       "Eventually we are shown that we must get honest, or we will use
                                   again."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 82

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   Everyone has secrets, right?  Some of us have little secrets, items that
   would cause only minor embarrassment if found out.   Some of us have big
   secrets, whole areas of our lives cloaked in thick, murky darkness.   Big
   secrets may represent a more obvious, immediate danger to our recovery.
   But the little secrets do their own kind of damage, the more insidious
   perhaps because we think they're "harmless."

   Big or little, our secrets represent spiritual territory we are unwilling
   to surrender to the principles of recovery.  The longer we reserve pieces
   of our lives to be ruled by self-will and the more vigorously we defend
   our "right" to hold onto them, the more damage we do.  Gradually, the
   unsurrendered territories of our lives tend to expand, taking more and
   more ground.

   Whether the secrets in our lives are big or little, sooner or later they
   bring us to the same place.   We must choose-either we surrender
   everything to our program, or we will lose our recovery.

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   Just for today:   I  want the kind of recovery that comes from total
   surrender to the program.  Today, I will talk with my sponsor and disclose
   my secrets, big or small.