Feb 1st - Just for Today NA Meditation w/MightyStream.Credits: NA World Services, Inc.
February 1 Hardships “We felt different.... Only after surrender are we able to overcome the alienation of addiction.” Basic Text, p. 22 ––––=–––– “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. 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. 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. Copyright (c) 2007-2022, NA World Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ List of Meetings I make: Feel the Love Group of NA - Zoom id 348 006 1380 passcode 466529 Mondays at 7-8:30 EDT, mute yourself upon entry, raise your hand to share. 24-7 International Online NA Marathon Meeting: zoom id # 494-965-5895 passcode: 1953 9am (EDT) Wake Up Manhattan: 918-018-071 no passcode M-F Only Daily Conscious Contact 11th Step NA Meeting 10am EDT: zoom id # -862-9137-5466 passcode: 232323
