Grey Book Reflection
When we pray a remarkable thing happens; we find the means, the ways, and energies, to perform tasks far beyond our capabilities.
Gray Book, p. 58 (Lines 23-25, Step Eleven)
The First Step in Narcotics Anonymous asks us to admit our powerlessness and unmanageability over the disease of addiction. In the Second Step we're asked to tap into a Power Greater Than Ourselves to relieve our obsession to use drugs. In the Third Step we're asked to make a Decision to turn to this Power for Guidance and Care. The Foundation built from these first Three Steps is what makes Recovery possible.
In Step Eleven we're suggested asking for Power; the Power we ask for is not for power over addiction. We're always going to be powerless over our addiction. The Power we are now asking for is the Power to walk the walk, to attract others to Recovery and keep us Growing.
We ask this Power to work the Steps and Practice these Principles in our Lives on a daily basis. Without this Power we can't and won't continue on this Spiritual Journey. Eventually, we will return to the hopeless condition we were in when we first came in.
With this Power we are transformed into a better condition than we were in before active addiction. It takes Prayer, Meditation and aligning our thinking and actions to this Power Greater Than Ourselves. The results will be a greater understanding with the world, ourselves and others than we ever had. The ordinary becomes the extraordinary.
Our liabilities are minimized and our Assets enhanced. We become a tool to Help ourselves and others.
We are no longer just existing. For the first time we are fully Living, Happy, Joyous and Free.
We will continue to seek Guidance through Prayer and Meditation. This Conscious Contact with this Higher Power is what makes our Recovery possible.