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- Feb 17, 2024
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Daily Readings and Inspirations
Daily Reflections: THE LOVE IN THEIR EYES
Some of us won't believe in God, others can't, and still others who do not believe that God exists have no faith whatever He will perform this miracle. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 25
It was the changes I saw in the new people who came into the Fellowship that helped me lose my fear, and change my negative attitude to a positive one. I could see the love in their eyes and I was impressed by how much their "One Day at a Time" sobriety meant to them.
They had looked squarely at Step Two and came to believe that a power greater than themselves was restoring them to sanity. That gave me faith in the Fellowship, and hope that it could work for me too. I found that God was a loving God, not that punishing God I feared before coming to A.A. I also found that He had been with me during all those times I had been in trouble before I came to A.A. I know today that He was the one who led me to A.A. and that I am a miracle.
NA Just For Today: Carrying The Message, Not The Addict
"They can be analyzed, counseled, reasoned with, prayed over, threatened, beaten, or locked up, but they will not stop until they want to stop." Basic Text, p. 62
Perhaps one of the most difficult truths we must face in our recovery is that we are as powerless over another's addiction as we are over our own. We may think that because we've had a spiritual awakening in our own lives we should be able to persuade another addict to find recovery. But there are limits to what we can do to help another addict.
We cannot force them to stop using. We cannot give them the results of the steps or grow for them. We cannot take away their loneliness or their pain. There is nothing we can say to convince a scared addict to surrender the familiar misery of addiction for the frightening uncertainty of recovery. We cannot jump inside other peoples' skins, shift their goals, or decide for them what is best for them.
However, if we refuse to try to exert this power over another's addiction, we may help them. They may grow if we allow them to face reality, painful though it may be. They may become more productive, by their own definition, as long as we don't try and do it for them. They can become the authority on their own lives, provided we are only authorities on our own. If we can accept all this, we can become what we were meant to be - carriers of the message, not the addict.
Just for today: I will accept that I am powerless not only over my own addiction but also over everyone else's. I will carry the message, not the addict.
ACRONYMS: Recovery
GIFT: God Is Forever There
FEAR: Face Everything And Rise
HUG: Hope Using God
HOPE: Happy. Our. Program. Exists.
PUSH: Pray Until Something Happens
HOPE: Happy. Our. Program. Exists.
As the gifts that we have to give, we can see that only by letting the fear be something that helps us be able to give hugs; sometimes its the push we need to be for another to see that there is hope(as sometimes that is all we have.)
SLOGANS: RECOVERY
God doesn't make junk and so I know that being here and now it’s simply for me to Give time time, seeing that this is It's a simple program for complicated people that have so much to give: as addicts have lived, yes it is true that they lived in away of running away and in that, life is about balance, so within that balance, life is then set a foot onto the other; seeing that If you want to stay clean, don't use and so that is the power of just for today/the moment of the now.
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From myself
I see the pain of the past and how it can keep me from my future/others/holding me back from letting the hope of life be what it is, the map/key of unlocking my heart; the power then would be for me to give it to me and let the pain go: for I don’t have to be the keeper of the pain I can be able to keep just giving so that I can get what I give.
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