Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   April 25                                                 Embracing reality

                   "Recovery is a reality for us today."

                                                           Basic Text, p. 101

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   Pain and misery were realities in our using lives.   We were unwilling
   either to accept our living situation or to change what was unacceptable
   in our lives.  We attempted to escape life's pain by taking drugs, but
   using only compounded our troubles.  Our altered sense of reality became a
   nightmare.

   Through living the program of Narcotics Anonymous, we learn that our
   dreams can replace our nightmares.   We grow and change.  We acquire the
   freedom of choice.  We are able to give and receive love.  We can share
   honestly about ourselves, no longer magnifying or minimizing the truth.
   We accept the challenges real life offers us, facing them in a mature,
   responsible way.

   Although recovery does not give us immunity from the realities of life, in
   the NA Fellowship we can find the support, genuine care, and concern we
   need to face those realities.   We need never hide from reality by using
   drugs again, for our unity with other recovering addicts gives us
   strength.  Today, the support, the care, and the empathy of recovery give
   us a clean, clear window through which to view, experience, and appreciate
   reality as it is.

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   Just for today:  A gift of my recovery is living and enjoying life as it
   truly is.  Today, I will embrace reality.