Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   December 23                                                      New ideas

    "We reevaluate our old ideas so we can become acquainted with the new
                    ideas that lead to a new way of life."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 94

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   Learning to live a new way of life can be difficult.  Sometimes, when the
   going gets especially hard, we're tempted to follow the path of least
   resistance and live by our old ideas again.  We forget that our old ideas
   were killing us.  To live a new way of life, we need to open our minds to
   new ideas.

   Working the steps, attending meetings, sharing with others, trusting a
   sponsor-these suggestions may meet our resistance, even our rebellion.
   The NA program requires effort, but each step in the program brings us
   closer to becoming the kinds of people we truly want to be.  We want to
   change, to grow, to become something more than we are today.  To do that,
   we open our minds, try on the new ideas we've found in NA, and learn to
   live a new way of life.

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   Just for today:   I will open my mind to new ideas and learn to live my
   life in a new way.