May 26

One of the Precious Gifts of Narcotics Anonymous is that we get to choose a God of Our Own Understanding, and develop a Relationship with that Higher Power. When we first came to Narcotics Anonymous, some of us didn't have a working Relationship with Life, never mind with a Loving, Caring Higher Power. Some of us had a problem with the God word, or any concept of God. Our First Step shows us that we're not God, and that we had to Admit that we didn't have any answers, when it came to our addiction.

The Second Step tells us that the void the drugs left, once removed, had to be replaced with a Power Greater Than Ourselves and that will remove our obsession to use. This Higher Power can be the Group, it can be the Principles of Narcotics Anonymous, it can be our Literature, or it can be God. The only criteria is that this Power be Loving, Caring, and for some members, Forgiving, but it can't be us. Some concepts that work for us is, Good Orderly Direction, another one is Gift Of Desperation, or Grow Or Die.

This dependence has to be more about Reliance than just compliance. The important thing is that it's the Process of Coming to Believe that restores us to sanity. The Process is the Action we take, going to Meetings, reading Literature, connecting with others, finding a Sponsor, and joining a Home Group and doing Service in that Group.

Our obsession gets removed and is replaced by Spiritual Freshness. Our Spirits Awaken, and we finally feel the Hope and the Promise of Freedom we heard about. With this growing Awareness we start to feel a euphoria, different from the one the drugs first gave us.

This one really means that All Will Be Well.