Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   November 23                                                   God's will

   "The relief of 'letting go and letting God' helps us develop a life
                            that is worth living."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 26

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   In our addiction, we were afraid of what might happen if we didn't
   control everything around us.   Many of us made up elaborate lies to
   protect our use of drugs.  Some of us manipulated everyone around us in a
   frenzied attempt to get something from them so we could use more drugs.  A
   few of us went to great lengths to keep two people from talking to each
   other and perhaps discovering our trail of lies.    We took pains to
   maintain an illusion of control over our addiction and our lives.  In the
   process, we kept ourselves from experiencing the serenity that comes with
   surrender to a Higher Power's will.

   In our recovery, it is important to release our illusion of control and
   surrender to a Higher Power, whose will for us is better than anything we
   can con, manipulate, or devise for ourselves.   If we realize that we are
   trying to control outcomes and are feeling afraid of the future, there is
   action we can take to reverse that trend.   We go to our Second and Third
   Steps and look at what we have come to believe about a Higher Power.   Do
   we truly believe that this Power can care for us and restore us to
   sanity?  If so, we can live with all of life's ups and downs-its
   disappointments, its sorrows, its wonders, and its joys.

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   Just for today:  I will surrender and let a Higher Power's will happen
   in my life.  I will accept the gift of serenity this surrender brings.