Today's Reading from Just For Today © NA World Services
November 4 Exchanging love
"...we give love because it was given so freely to us. New frontiers
are open to us as we learn how to love. Love can be the flow of life
energy from one person to another."
Basic Text, pp. 100-101
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Love given, and love received, is the essence of life itself. It is the
universal common denominator, connecting us to those around us. Addiction
deprived us of that connection, locking us within ourselves.
The love we find in the NA program reopens the world to us. It unlocks
the cage of addiction which once imprisoned us. By receiving love from
other NA members, we find out-perhaps for the first time-what love is
and what it can do. We hear fellow members talk about the sharing of
love, and we sense the substance it lends to their lives.
We begin to suspect that, if giving and receiving love means so much to
others, maybe it can give meaning to our lives, too. We sense that we are
on the verge of a great discovery, yet we also sense that we won't fully
understand the meaning of love unless we give ours away. We try it, and
discover the missing connection between ourselves and the world.
Today, we realize that what they said was true: "We keep what we have
only by giving it away."
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Just for today: Life is a new frontier for me, and the vehicle I will use
to explore it is love. I will give freely the love I have received.
