Post by caressa on Jan 3, 2010 11:30:16 GMT -5
"We eventually redefine our beliefs and understanding to the point where we see that our greatest need is for knowledge of God's will for us and the strength to carry that out"
NA Basic Text p. 46
Every day I pray and ask for my knowing I need for my Inner Self. Recovery has been about learning to align my will with God's and trying to the best of my ability to be the person He would have me be in today.
My best thinking and actions got me to the doors of recovery so it only stands to reason that I needed to rethink my life and take new direction for my life.
I may not be able to go out to meetngs like I did for the first ten years of my recovery, yet the good orderly direction that I received from a group of drunks and drug addicts has stayed with me. Those two meetings a day at the beginning and later doing 7-10 meetings a week because of service, were insurance deposits for later times when I wasn't able to get out to meetings.
With my web sites, the two sites that I am a moderator on and this site keeps me in touch with recovery people and gives me the spiritual food I need on a dialy basis.
I once was told that I had relapsed because I left the stronghold of AA to go to the fellowship of NA. Needless to say, I was not a happy camper. The woman was a long time member of AA and a self admitted addict. I fell in love with NA literature in November of 1991. When I think of the Third Tradition, the words that go around in my mind are "The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using."
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.