Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   July 31                                      Freedom from active addiction

    "Narcotics Anonymous offers only one promise and that is freedom from
         active addiction, the solution that eluded us for so long."

                                                           Basic Text, p. 106

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   NA offers no promises other than freedom from active addiction.  It is
   true that some of our members meet with financial success in recovery.
   They buy nice houses, drive new cars, wear fine clothes, and form
   beautiful families.  These outward signs of prosperity are not the lot of
   all of our members, however.  A  great many of us never achieve financial
   success.   This does not necessarily reflect on the quality of our
   recovery.

   When we are tempted to compare ourselves to these other, seemingly more
   affluent members, it is good to remember why we came to the rooms of
   Narcotics Anonymous.   We came because our lives had fallen down around
   us.  We were emotionally, physically, and spiritually defeated.  Our Basic
   Text reminds us that "in desperation we sought help from each other in
   Narcotics Anonymous." We came because we were beaten.

   For addicts, even one day clean is a miracle.  When we remember why we
   came to Narcotics Anonymous and in what condition we arrived, we realize
   that material wealth pales in comparison to the spiritual riches we have
   gained in recovery.

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   Just for today:  I have been given a spiritual gift greater than material
   wealth: my recovery.   I will thank the God of my understanding for my
   freedom from active addiction.