Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   June 6                                 Recovery doesn't happen overnight

     "The Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous are a progressive recovery
                  process established in our daily living."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 99

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   After some time in recovery, we may find we are faced with what seem like
   overwhelming personal problems, angry feelings, and despair.   When we
   realize what's going on, we may wail, "But I've been working so
   hard.  I thought I was..."  Recovered, maybe?  Not hardly.  Over and
   over, we hear that recovery is an ongoing process and that we are never
   cured.  Yet we sometimes believe that if we just work our steps enough,
   pray enough, or go to enough meetings, we'll eventually...  well, maybe
   not be cured, but be something!

   And we are "something."  We're recovering-recovering from active
   addiction.  No matter what we've dealt with through the process of the
   steps, there will always be more.   What we didn't remember or didn't
   think was important in our first inventory will surely present itself
   later on.  Again and again, we'll turn to the process of the steps to
   deal with what's bothering us.  The more we use this process, the more
   we'll trust it, for we can see the results.   We go from anger and
   resentment to forgiveness, from denial to honesty and acceptance, and from
   pain to serenity.

   Recovery doesn't happen overnight, and ours will never be complete.  But
   each day brings new healing and the hope for more tomorrow.

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   Just for today:  I will do what I can for my recovery today and maintain
   hope in the ongoing process of recovery.