Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   May 3                                                Sharing our gratitude

     "My gratitude speaks when I care and when I share with others the NA
                                    way."

                                                             Gratitude Prayer

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   The longer we stay clean, the more we experience feelings of gratitude for
   our recovery.  These feelings of gratitude aren't limited to particular
   gifts like new friends or the ability to be employed.  More frequently,
   they arise from the overall sense of joy we feel in our new lives.   These
   feelings are enhanced by our certainty of the course our lives would have
   taken if it weren't for the miracle we've experienced in Narcotics
   Anonymous.

   These feelings are so all-encompassing, so wondrous, and sometimes so
   overwhelming that we often can't find words for them.   We sometimes
   openly weep with happiness while sharing in a meeting, yet we grope for
   words to express what we are feeling.   We want so badly to convey to
   newcomers the gratitude we feel, but it seems that our language lacks the
   superlatives to describe it.

   When we share with tears in our eyes, when we choke up and can't talk at
   all-these are the times when our gratitude speaks most clearly.   We
   share our gratitude directly from our hearts;  with their hearts, others
   hear and understand.   Our gratitude speaks eloquently, though our words
   may not.

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   Just for today:  My gratitude has a voice of its own; when it speaks, the
   heart understands.  Today, I will share my gratitude with others, whether
   I can find the words or not.