February 21

In Narcotics Anonymous we're granted a Daily Reprieve, and that's contingent on our Spiritual maintenance. The Spiritual Principles are written so simply that we can practice them in our Daily Lives, the most important thing about them is that they work, our Literature tells us. After arriving at Narcotics Anonymous we put down the drugs, then we are given a set of tools that replaces our drug use. These Spiritual Principles contained in the Steps have to be applied in our Daily Living for them to work.

Since there's no cure for this progressive disease, our Recovery has to be ongoing. We learn to Surrender daily, one of the ways we show this Surrender is with our Meeting attendance. Attending Meetings and our Complete and Total Abstinence is part of our Physical Surrender in Step One.

Since our disease is also Mental, Spiritual and Emotional, we must do more. Hope without action turns to despair, so we must work the rest of the Steps. Tapping into a Power Greater than ourselves to relieve our obsessions, Grants us Serenity, and supplies the Power to move on.

We develop a Relationship with the God of Our Understanding. With the Help of our Sponsors and other members we move into Action. Our Gray Book says, "This gives us experience in applying Spiritual Principles.

The experience gained with time insures our ongoing Recovery." So then the opposite must be true, if we don't use what we learned we lose it in the relapse process. Spirituality is one of the last things we gain in our Program, but, it's the first thing that starts to go in the relapse process. Our ongoing Recovery is dependent on our actions Today.

If we don't use it, we'll lose it. The same way we cannot stay clean on yesterday's shower, we cannot stay clean on yesterday's Recovery.

We Recover, Just For Today.