Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   May 21                                                   Keep coming back!

         "Meetings keep us in touch with where we've been, but more
            importantly, with where we could go in our recovery."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 56

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   In many ways, addicts are different.  When we came to Narcotics Anonymous
   we found others like ourselves, people who understood us and whom we could
   understand.  No longer did we feel like aliens, strangers wherever we
   went.  We were at home in NA meetings, among friends.

   We don't stop being addicts after we've been clean awhile.  We still
   need to identify with other addicts.  We continue coming to NA meetings to
   keep in touch with who we are, where we've come from, and where we're
   going.    Every meeting  reminds us that we  can never use  drugs
   successfully.  Every meeting reminds us that we'll never be cured, but
   that by practicing the principles of the program we can recover.   And
   every meeting offers us the experience and example of other addicts in
   ongoing recovery.

   At meetings, we see how different people work their program, and the
   results are apparent in their lives.   If we want the lives we see others
   living, we can find out what they've done to get where they are.
   Narcotics Anonymous meetings offer us identification with where we've
   been and where we can go-identification we can't do without and
   can't get anywhere else.  That keeps us coming back.

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   Just for today:  I will attend an NA meeting to remind myself of who I am,
   where I've come from, and where I can go in my recovery.