Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   October 2                                                    Keeping faith

      "We grasp the limitless strength provided for us through our daily
         prayer and surrender as long as we keep faith and renew it."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 46

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   There are two parts to recovery: getting clean, and staying clean.
   Getting clean is comparatively easy because we only have to do it once.
   Staying clean is more difficult, requiring attention every day of our
   lives.  Yet both draw their power from faith.

   We got clean on faith.  We admitted that addiction was more powerful than
   we were, and we stopped trying to fight it on our own.   We turned the
   battle over to a Power greater than ourselves, and that Higher Power got
   us clean.

   We stay clean each day the same way: on faith.   Just for today, we
   surrender.  Life may be too big for us to tackle on our own power.   When
   it is, we seek a Power greater than ourselves.  We pray, asking our Higher
   Power for direction and the strength to follow it.   By exercising and
   renewing our faith on a daily basis, we tap the resources we need to live
   clean, full lives.

   There is limitless strength available to us whenever we need it.  To grasp
   it, all we need to do is keep faith in the Higher Power that got us clean
   and keeps us clean.

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   Just for today:  Faith got me clean, and faith will keep me clean.  Today,
   I will keep faith with my Higher Power.  I will renew my surrender and
   pray for knowledge and strength.