Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   April 6                                                    Growing honesty

   "On a practical level, changes occur because what's appropriate to one
                  phase of recovery may not be for another."

                                                           Basic Text, p. 105

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   When we first came to Narcotics Anonymous, many of us had no legitimate
   occupation.  Not all of us suddenly decide we're going to become honest
   and productive model citizens the moment we arrive in NA.   But we soon
   find, in recovery, that we are not so comfortable doing many of the things
   we once did without a second thought when we were using.

   As we grow in our recovery, we begin to be honest in matters that probably
   hadn't bothered us when we used.  We start returning extra change a
   cashier may have given us by mistake, or admitting when we hit a parked
   car.  We find that if we can begin to be honest in these small ways, the
   bigger tests of our honesty become much easier to handle.

   Many of us came here with very little capacity to be honest.  But we find
   that as we work the Twelve Steps, our lives begin to change.  We are no
   longer comfortable when we benefit at the expense of others.  And we can
   feel good about our newfound honesty.

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   Just for today:  I will examine the level of honesty in my life and see if
   I'm comfortable with it.