September 12

One acronym for EGO is, "Easing God Out. Step Five asks us to Admit to God, ourselves, and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. In this Step, we have to involve The God Of Our Own Understanding out loud with our own lips and voice.

Prayer as in all the other Steps and Traditions, is essential. The ego will protect itself from ourselves.

Our egos served us well in active addiction, but it's not conducive to our Recovery. Since we are as sick as our secrets, we must be vigilant against our egos. In active addiction, our mouths contributed a lot to our addiction.

We used drugs with our mouths and used our mouths to lie and exaggerate in order to keep using. Step Five is asking us now to use our mouths for healing. Admitting, Praying and being Honest are some effective tools we use in Narcotics Anonymous to work the Program and Heal. Sometimes the stories and lies we told ourselves and others became distorted from the Truth and Reality.

After a while, we couldn't tell the Truth from fantasy. Many of us included these exaggerations and lies when we told our stories. Over time and Complete Abstinence our minds and bodies start to clear up.

Working the Steps the fog starts to lift; it's an overtime not overnight Process. A deeper Surrender is essential as we progress through the Steps. With each Step the Spiritual Awakening we experience as a result, will begin our Uncovery process.

Faith resulting from Hope will allow us to ask for Help. Our Higher Power, Narcotics Anonymous, Sponsor and the Fellowship will Guide us in this Process. Today we use the same mouths that sickened us, to Heal us.