Tell yourself:
Just for today, my thoughts will be on my recovery, living and enjoying life without the use of drugs.
Just for today, I will have faith in someone in NA who believes in me and wants to help me in my recovery.
Just for today, I will have a program. I will try to follow it to the best of my ability.
Just for today, through NA, I will try to get a better perspective on my life.
Just for today, I will be unafraid. My thoughts will be on my new associations, people who are not using and who have found a new way of life. So long as I follow that way, I have nothing to fear.
When we came into the program of Narcotics Anonymous, we made a decision to turn our lives over to the care of a Higher Power. This surrender relieves the burden of the past and fear of the future. The gift of today is now in proper perspective. We accept and enjoy life as it is right now. When we refuse to accept the reality of today, we are denying our faith in our Higher Power. This can only bring more suffering.
July 26, 2024 |
Unconditional surrender |
| Page 216 |
| "Help for addicts begins only when we are able to admit complete defeat. This can be frightening, but it is the foundation on which we have built our lives." |
| Basic Text, p. 22 |
| Most of us have tried everything we can think of, exerted every ounce of force possible, to fill the spiritual hole inside us. Nothing--not drugs, not control and management, not sex, money, property, power, or prestige--has filled it. We are powerless; our lives are unmanageable, at least by ourselves alone. Our denial will not change that fact. So we surrender; we ask a Higher Power to care for our will and our lives. Sometimes in surrendering, we don't know that a Power greater than ourselves exists which can restore us to wholeness. Sometimes we're not sure that the God of our understanding will care for our unmanageable lives. Our lack of certainty, though, does not affect the essential truth: We are powerless. Our lives are unmanageable. We must surrender. Only by doing so can we open ourselves wide--wide enough for our old ideas and past wreckage to be cleared, wide enough for a Higher Power to enter. |
| Just for Today: I will surrender unconditionally. I can make it as easy or as hard as I choose. Either way, I will do it. |
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