December 1

The Eleventh Step in Narcotics Anonymous tells us that Prayer carries a certain Responsibility. This Step asks us not to Pray for specific things or results, when we're Praying. This Step tells us to Pray for God's Will for us and the Power to carry that Will out.

In active addiction, some of us used fox hole Prayers for specific results. In Narcotics Anonymous some of us still find ourselves Praying for specific things or specific results. We can find ourselves still using God as a cosmic bellboy.

This is not the purpose of Step Eleven. Some of us only Prayed and didn't Meditate.

Meditation Achieves this Contact, many of us didn't wait for the answer. We blamed God when the results weren't what we Prayed for or when we got what we Prayed for and didn't expect some side effects that came with the results. Praying for God's Will for us can almost guarantee that we will receive what's best for us and others. In the Third Step we made the Decision to turn our Will and Lives over to the Care of God.

In the Eleventh Step we reaffirm this Decision. We Trust the God Of Our Understanding knows what's best for us.

We increase our Faith by aligning our actions with that Will. We learn that God's Will consists of the very things we want for ourselves. We then see that our Greatest Source of Strength comes from our Higher Power. The results can be seen in our Emotional Stability and in the way we Live.