With the help of my Higher Power, I'll continue in my recovery.Ģ007-2023, NA World Services, Inc. Just for Today: I won't be afraid of my feelings. Just for today, we can continue in our recovery. Our Higher Power cares for us by giving us the help we need to work the rest of the Twelve Steps. We can again turn our will and our lives over, through the Third Step, to the care of the God of our understanding. We can recall the hope for release the Second Step gave us. If we hurt from the pain of our defects, we can remind ourselves of the nightmare of addiction, a nightmare from which we've now awakened. The Twelve Steps help us deal with the misery caused by our defects by dealing directly with the defects themselves. Click here to receive Weekly Spiritual Meditations in email. Click here to receive Daily Prayers in email. Click here to receive AA Thoughts For Today in email. 63 Many times in my alcoholic state, I drank to establish a bond between myself and others, but I succeeded only in establishing the bondage of alcoholic loneliness. Click here to receive Daily Recovery Readings in email. Refusing to acknowledge the source of our anguish doesn't make it go away denial protects the pain and makes it stronger. Seek and ye shall find, Knock and it shall be opened unto you. Now that the drugs are gone, we feel that pain. When we were using, all we felt was the drugs we could ignore the suffering our defects were causing us. It's not the awareness of our defects that causes the most agony-it's the defects themselves. Through surrender and acceptance, we can find the resources we need to keep working the steps. We may be tempted to falter in our program of recovery. " We may fear that being in touch with our feelings will trigger an overwhelming chain reaction of pain and panic."Ī common complaint about the Fourth Step is that it makes us painfully conscious of our defects of character. Just for Today Meditation September 25, 2023
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