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Daily Readings and Inspirations

Daily Reflections: GOAL: SANITY 

1. "...Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life. I can't say upon what occasion or on what day I came to believe in a power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief now." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 27 

2. "Came to believe!" I gave lip service to my belief when I felt like it or when I thought it would look good.  I didn't really trust God. I didn't believe He cared for me. I kept trying to change things I couldn't change. 

3. Gradually, in disgust, I began to turn it all over, saying: "You're so omnipotent, you take care of it." He did. I began to receive answers to my deepest problems, sometimes at the most unusual times: driving to  work, eating lunch, or when I was sound asleep. I realized that I hadn't thought of those solutions--a  Power greater than myself had given them to me. I came to believe. 

NA Just For Today:  Hardships 

1. " We felt different... Only after surrender are we able to overcome the alienation of addiction." Basic Text p. 22

2. " But you don't understand!" we spluttered, trying to cover up. "I'm different! I've really got it rough!" We  used these lines over and over in our active addiction, either trying to escape the consequences of our  actions or avoid following the rules that applied to everyone else. We may have cried them at our first  meeting. Perhaps we've even caught ourselves whining them recently. 

3. So many of us feel different or unique. As addicts, we can use almost anything to alienate ourselves. But  there's no excuse for missing out on recovery, nothing that can make us ineligible for the program-not a  life-threatening illness, not poverty, not anything. There are thousands of addicts who have found  recovery despite the real hardships they've faced. Through working the program, their spiritual awareness  has grown, in spite of-or perhaps in response to-those hardships. 

4. Our individual circumstances and differences are irrelevant when it comes to recovery. By letting go of  our uniqueness and surrendering to this simple way of life, we're bound to find that we feel a part of  something. And feeling a part of something gives us the strength to walk through life, hardships and all. 

Just for today: I will let go of my uniqueness and embrace the principles of recovery I have in common  with so many others. My hardships do not exclude me from recovery; rather, they draw me into it.

From recoveryhq.com

Recovery ACRONYMS: 

1. FAITH: Fantastic Adventure In Trusting Him/hope

2. GOD = Good Orderly Direction

3. KCB: keep coming back

 Faith in god so that I can kcb.

RECOVERY SLOGANS

1.  God doesn't make junk

2. Give time time

3. Misery is optional

4. we have to build a door not tear down a wall, because we don’t wish to shut the door to the past

 God doesn't make junk so I have to Give time time because Misery is optional and we have to build a door not tear down a wall, because we don’t wish to shut the door to the past or we will never be able to take it One Day At A Time.

From myself

the hardships are what help us be able to be put to the test, for it's not how you start it’s how you finish; so how will you finish?