February 15

Don't search for God; God is not lost, we are. When we first arrived at Narcotics Anonymous, many of us were far removed from any type of Healthy Spirituality.

Some of our practices by using drugs, to find God or something else, only drew us farther away. Our Spirits were in a Spiritual coma, our minds and bodies were clouded with drugs, we were sick. After getting to Narcotics Anonymous and remaining Abstinent, our minds caught up to us; the obsession in our thinking could only be relieved by a Power Greater than ourselves.

A sick mind cannot cure itself, so we needed the Steps and others to Awaken our Spirits. Our Second Step tells us that the pain of Living without drugs or anything to replace them, forces us to seek a Power Greater than ourselves to relieve our obsession to use. Step Two says that the Process of Coming To Believe is what Restores us to Sanity, so it's the Action we do that Restores us. We can't think our way into good Living; we have to Live Our Way Into Good Thinking.

The decision to apply these actions come more from our Hearts than our minds, we feel God's Presence, not think God's Presence. With these Actions the God of Our Understanding finds us. We Practice the Spiritual Principle of Honesty by aligning our Actions to the Truth.