November 10

Fear dominated us all our lives, most of our actions and reactions were feared based. As addicts, we lived our lives without Faith, without a working Relationship with God or a Higher Power, without a safety net. It's no wonder that when we fell, we fell hard.

Most of our decisions were based on false evidence appearing real, which is the acronym for F.E.A.R. The part that was real we could do little or nothing about.

We were victims of ourselves. We were trapped in our portable self-made prisons and could not escape. Our Gray Book states, "The peculiar inertia that keeps a person going the way they are, acted on us. " Many of us spiraled downward out of control.

Hopelessness and helplessness became our way of life. Not until we arrived to Narcotics Anonymous did the negatives in our lives turn to Positives. Recovery in Narcotics Anonymous teaches us a new acronym for fear can mean; Face Everything And Recover.

Surrendering to the Spiritual Principles of Narcotics Anonymous, our fear turns to Faith. When we fall today, our Higher Power serves as a safety net to catch us gently. Going through and Living the Steps of Narcotics Anonymous our Lives are no longer dominated, or ran by fear.

Our Step Four reminds us that fear is lack of Faith. Later on in Chapter Nine it also tells us that worrying is also a lack of Faith.

It doesn't mean they both can't exist together. It means that lack or the level of one can influence the other. Today with the Help from the God of Our Own Understanding, Sponsors and the Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous, we no longer have to run from anything, including ourselves. Today we can Face Everything and Recover.