June 20

In active addiction, some of us developed strange ways of praying. Our prayers seem to be fox hole prayers. We prayed when we desperately needed help in our active addiction; "God, please let me make it out of this one.

If I do, I swear I'll never " Some of us have never prayed until we entered N.A. Many of us received the suggestion early on to start praying. This early introduction to prayer was for our obsession to use drugs, be lifted.

The pain of not using forced us to seek this Power to relieve our obsession. Any resource we have for communicating with this Higher Power is useful. It allows us to tap into a Power that can help us stay clean, one that we SO desperately need.

Step Two starts this Process. This Power Greater Than Ourselves becomes more and more evident because we are staying clean.

We learn how to Pray, which is talking to the God of Our Understanding. More importantly we learn to listen for the answers, which is called Meditation. We can use this Power even when we are not in pain or in a critical condition.

To be God-conscious we have to practice the Spiritual Principles of Narcotics Anonymous in everything we do. Our Literature tells us that emotional balance is one of the first Fruits of Meditation we experience. Narcotics Anonymous asks us to cultivate new healthy habits that can enhance our Recovery. One of the ways we do this is by establishing a relationship with a God of Our Understanding.