Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   December 5                                       Those who want to recover

   "We have seen the program work for any addict who honestly and sincerely
                        wants to stop [using drugs]."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 10

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   How do we know when someone honestly and sincerely wants to stop using
   drugs?  The truth is that we don't know!  Because we cannot read minds
   or know another's motives and desires, we simply have to hope for the
   best.

   We may talk to a newcomer at a meeting and think we'll never see them
   again, only to find them several years later doing well in their
   recovery.  We may be tempted to give up on someone who keeps relapsing or
   doesn't get clean right away, but we must not.  No matter how unwilling
   someone may seem, a simple fact remains-the addict is at a meeting.

   We may never know the results of our Twelfth Step work; it is not up to us
   to gauge the willingness of a newcomer.  The message we carry is a part of
   us.  We carry it everywhere and share it freely, leaving the results to a
   Power greater than ourselves.

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   Just for today:   I will share my recovery with any addict, anywhere,
   anytime, and under any circumstances.   I will leave the results to my
   Higher Power.