Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   February 11                                        A curse into a blessing

   "We have become very grateful in the course of our recovery....  We have
                        a disease, but we do recover."

                                                             Basic Text, p. 8

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   Active addiction was no picnic; many of us barely came out of it alive.
   But ranting against the disease, lamenting what it has done to us, pitying
   ourselves for the condition it has left us in-these things can only keep
   us locked in the spirit of bitterness and resentment.  The path to freedom
   and spiritual growth begins where bitterness ends, with acceptance.

   There is no denying the suffering brought by addiction.  Yet it was this
   disease that brought us to Narcotics Anonymous;  without it, we would
   neither have sought nor found the blessing of recovery.  In isolating us,
   it forced us to seek fellowship.  In causing us to suffer, it gave us the
   experience needed to help others, help no one else was so uniquely suited
   to offer.  In forcing us to our knees, addiction gave us the opportunity
   to surrender to the care of a loving Higher Power.

   We would not wish the disease of addiction on anyone.   But the fact
   remains that we addicts already have this disease-and further, that
   without this disease we may never have embarked on our spiritual journey.
   Thousands of people search their whole lives for what we have found in
   Narcotics Anonymous: fellowship, a sense of purpose, and conscious contact
   with a Higher Power.   Today, we are grateful for everything that has
   brought us this blessing.

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   Just for today:   I will accept the fact of my disease, and pursue the
   blessing of my recovery.