March 13

Our Twelfth Step and our Fifth Tradition tell us that we Carry the Message to the addict who still suffers. An addict that is still using, most of the time, is not going to want what we have to offer. Our Basic Text tells us, "They can be analyzed, counseled, reasoned with, prayed over, threatened, beaten, locked up, or whatever, but they will not stop until they want to stop. " What we do is Carry the Message that saved our Lives, and Hopefully that will fan the flames of desire for that suffering addict. Carrying our Message and Helping others, reinforces our Program, and we get to stay Clean another day.

We don't get to choose who we Carry the Message to, we Carry the Message and God delivers it. We are seed planters, one of our Founding Members used to say. We don't know the season that the seed will Grow.

We Carry the Message without any rewards or expectations. Sometimes God will put people in our Lives without our choosing or permission; we may not even want to work with that person, but they keep calling us and want something from us.

It is not always convenient or even pleasurable for us to work with certain people. Guess what, maybe it was God's Will for them, for us to be there. It's not about us; it's about God's Will for us or God's Will for that person. We are strictly instruments and vessels that the Higher Power uses to Help others.

That's our main purpose, to stay Clean and Carry the N.A. . Message of Recovery. Working with others seem to work also as an antidote to diseased thinking.

With each Spiritual Awakening we keep the disease from claiming footage in our Lives. It's a WE Program.