Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   October 16                                             The simplest prayer

      "...praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to
                               carry that out."

                                                                  Step Eleven

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   How do we pray?  With little experience, many of us don't even know how
   to begin.  The process, however, is neither difficult nor complicated.

   We came to Narcotics Anonymous because of our drug addiction.    But
   underlying that, many of us felt a deep sense of bewilderment with life
   itself.  We seemed to be lost, wandering a trackless waste with no one to
   guide us.   Prayer is a way to gain direction in life and the power to
   follow that direction.

   Because prayer plays such a central part in NA  recovery, many of us set
   aside a particular time each day to pray, establishing a pattern.  In this
   quiet time, we "talk" to our Higher Power, either silently or aloud.
   We share our thoughts, our feelings, our day.  We ask, "What would you
   have me do?" At the same time we ask, "Please give me the power to
   carry out your will."

   Learning to pray is simple.   We ask for "knowledge of His will for us
   and the power to carry that out." By doing that, we find the direction
   we lacked and the strength we need to fulfill our God's will.

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   Just for today:  I  will set aside some quiet time to "talk" with my
   Higher Power.  I will ask for that Power's direction and the ability to
   act on it.