Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   March 7                                                         Priorities

     "The good times can also be a trap; the danger is that we may forget
                  that our first priority is to stay clean."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 43

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   Things can get really good in our recovery.   Perhaps we've found our
   "soul mate," built a rewarding career, started a family.  Maybe our
   relationships with our family members have healed.   Things are going so
   well, we barely have time to attend meetings.    Perhaps we begin to
   reintegrate into society so successfully that we forget that we don't
   always react to situations like others do.

   Maybe, just maybe, we've put some priorities ahead of themselves.   Is
   meeting attendance still a priority with us?  Do we still sponsor?  Do we
   phone our sponsor?   What step are we working?  Are we still willing to
   drag ourselves out of bed at some ungodly hour for a Twelfth Step call?
   Do we remember to practice principles in all our affairs?  If others in NA
   reach out to us, are we available?  Do we remember where we came from, or
   have the "good times" allowed us to forget?

   To stay clean, we must remember that we are only one drug away from our
   past.  We stay grateful for the good times, but we don't let them divert
   us from our continuing recovery in Narcotics Anonymous.

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   Just for today:   I'm grateful for the good times, but I've not
   forgotten from where I've come.   Today, my first priority is staying
   clean and growing in my recovery.