February 16

We needed a Power Greater than ourselves to get Clean and stay Clean. We continued to develop a Relationship with this Power that Restored us to Sanity and removed our obsession to use. We turned our Thinking and Living over to the Care of our Higher Power to continue in this Process we call Recovery.

This Process happens or should happen to every addict seeking Recovery and Living the N.A. Program. This Constant Conscious Contact becomes our God Consciousness, which we develop, shows us how to Live and Guides us in our Recovery.

We continued this Relationship and utilized it for our Group purposes. This Ultimate Authority manifests itself through each one of us, and a decision is made through the Group S Collective God Conscience. True Group Conscience is dependent on each individual having a Conscious Contact with the God of their understanding. If the majority of the Group members lack this Relationship with their Higher Power, then what you have is Group opinion.

Decisions based on individual opinions are not for the Greater Good of the Group and/or N.A.; it drives us away from our Primary Purpose. When we divert from our Primary Purpose, addicts die, and some will never find this Life Saving Message of Narcotics Anonymous. Anonymity in our Second Tradition reminds us that no one member is more important than the Group. Our Group decisions should come in front of the needs of anyone individual.

This decision is Guided by a Loving God as it expresses itself through our Group Conscience. Our Trusted Servants do not govern.