Grey Book Reflection
We get relief through the Twelve Steps, and sharing with trusted friends. We love them and believe in the promise and hope that they offer.
Gray Book, p. 140 (Chapter Eight, Lines 1-3)
Our Gray Book in Chapter Eight states, " our actual participation in recovery provides the health we need to respond to life and to arrest the disease of addiction. " Since the disease of addiction is incurable, progressive and fatal, we have to do more than "don't use no matter what. " Once we Surrender and achieve Cleanliness through Complete and Total Abstinence we're capable of Recovery. The Message of Hope and the Promise of Freedom is not automatic, it's what the Program of Narcotics Anonymous has to offer. We must Learn and Practice the Living Spiritual Program of Narcotics Anonymous.
Living without medicating ourselves with drugs can be also a living hell. We soon learn that addicts cannot live with or without the use of drugs.
However, there's a Spiritual Solution to our Spiritual problem. We base our Recovery on Twelve Spiritually Based Steps and Traditions as the Solution.
Our Literature and evidence show that those who work and Live the Narcotics Anonymous Program do not fail to find Recovery. Our best guarantee against the Spiritual, Mental and Physical relapses are the Steps and Traditions of Narcotics Anonymous. Recovery becomes a Reality as we Share this Precious Gift with others and Practice these Spiritual Principles in every area of our Lives on a Daily Basis.
Now it's about, "don't use, now what?" Narcotics Anonymous offers more than Freedom from active addiction.
We will focus more on just not using. We will remember that Narcotics Anonymous is not a drug program; it's a Recovery Program.