March 2

As our disease progressed, our focus was in finding ways and the means to keep using. Our families took a backseat; we failed in our jobs and our ambitions. Our dreams and aspirations gave way to our drugs and that lifestyle.

We kept using despite the wreckage; our denial grew, and we accepted our demise. We had no success in life, and the drugs turned against us, we couldn't even use successfully. We sought help, or we were mandated for help in the areas of jails, psychiatry, religion and medication. All these methods failed for us; ours was a Spiritual problem, not a medical or moral one.

Arriving at Narcotics Anonymous, we were told that each day we didn't use was a Successful day. Finally, with the Help of N.A. and the Fellowship, we felt that we also can have a Successful day. Our fears were still dominating our thoughts and feelings.

We were waiting for the other shoe to drop off. Our doomsday feelings slowly changed, when we found a Power Greater than ourselves in the Second Step. We had a choice; we didn't have to use, if we turned our Will and Lives over to the Care of a Higher Power in the Third Step.

With each Step our Spirit Awakened, we were participating in our own Lives. We got better with the things around us, and we started to Grow. We changed from hopeless cases, to Hopeful members of N.A. and society as a whole.

With each day that comes our Hope is renewed. Success for us, means that we don't have to use, Just For Today.

It means that we have a Relationship with our new-found friends in N.A. We're Grateful that it's possible to have a Loving Relationship with the God of Our Own Understanding, friends and families. We no longer view the world as a hostile environment.

We become employable and/or self-supporting. We start to Care and Share this Gift with others. We do Recover and Surrender to the Principles of Narcotics Anonymous and the God Of Our Understanding.