Narcotics Anonymous

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   September 2                                                 Higher Powered

     "Daily practice of our Twelve Step program enables us to change from
              what we were to people guided by a Higher Power."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 83

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   Who have we been, and who have we become?  There are a couple of ways to
   answer this question.  One is very simple:  We came to Narcotics Anonymous
   as addicts, our addiction killing us.  In NA, we've been freed from our
   obsession with drugs and our compulsion to use.   And our lives have
   changed.

   But that's only the tip of the iceberg.  Who have we really been?   In
   the past, we were people without power or direction.  We felt like we had
   no purpose, no reason for living.  Our lives didn't make any more sense
   to us than they did to our families, our friends, or our neighbors.

   Who are we really becoming?  Today, we are not merely clean addicts, but
   people with a sense of direction, a purpose, and a Power greater than
   ourselves.  Through daily practice of the Twelve Steps, we've begun to
   understand how our addiction warped our feelings, motivations, and
   behavior.   Gradually, the destructive force of our disease has been
   replaced by the life-giving force of our Higher Power.

   Recovery means more than cleaning up-it means powering up.  We have done
   more than shed some bad habits; we are becoming new people, guided by a
   Higher Power.

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   Just for today:  The guidance I need to become a new person is ready at
   hand.  Today, I will draw further away from my old lack of direction and
   closer to my Higher Power.