Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   April 10                                                          Too busy

     "We must use what we learn or we will lose it, no matter how long we
                              have been clean."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 85

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   After putting some clean time together, some of us have a tendency to
   forget what our most important priority is.   Once a week or less we say,
   "I've gotta get to a meeting tonight.  It's been..." We've been
   caught up in other things, important for sure, but no more so than our
   continued participation in Narcotics Anonymous.

   It happens gradually.   We get jobs.   We reunite with our families.
   We're raising children, the dog is sick, or we're going to school at
   night.  The house needs to be cleaned.  The lawn needs to be mowed.   We
   have to work late.  We're tired.   There's a good show at the theater
   tonight.  And all of a sudden, we notice that we haven't called our
   sponsor, been to a meeting, spoken to a newcomer, or even talked to God in
   quite a while.

   What do we do at this point?  Well, we either renew our commitment to our
   recovery, or we continue being too busy to recover until something happens
   and our lives become unmanageable.   Quite a choice!   Our best bet is to
   put more of our energy into maintaining the foundation of recovery on
   which our lives are built.    That foundation makes everything else
   possible, and it will surely crumble if we get too busy with everything
   else.

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   Just for today:  I can't afford to be too busy to recover.  I will do
   something today that sustains my recovery.