May 7

Our Fifth Step calls for a deeper level of Honesty. First Step Honesty was Practiced with our Actions.

Attending Meetings, reading N.A. Literature, and finding a Sponsor is how we Practiced Honesty. Now our Fifth Step is asking us to Practice Honesty with our mouths; the same mouths that helped sicken us, as an intake for some of the drugs and the lies we told with them. Now in our Fifth Step we are asked to use our mouths to Help Heal us.

Admitting to God, ourselves and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs, calls for a deeper form of Honesty. Like the previous Steps, it calls for a deeper level of Surrender.

The Faith we Practice Helps overcome our fear. We start to recognize that self-centered fear is at the root of all our defects. As we Share our fears with God, ourselves and our listeners the defects seem to peel away.

We get to the exact nature of our defective character. We also, through this Admission, reveal some Assets that were buried, and some newly formed since coming to Narcotics Anonymous. If we don't get Honest in this Step, we don't get to know ourselves, and the negative and positive aspects of our personalities. The Light of Exposure Helps us remove the masks we wore that was so necessary in our active addiction.

These tools of the disease are no longer necessary in this New Way of Life. The Spiritual Principle of Trust takes on a deeper meaning as we reveal our secrets to another human being and the God Of Our Own Understanding. We tell the Truth cut and dry.

We don't rationalize our actions or behaviors. Through Honesty, we take Responsibility and become Accountable for the part we played.