Grey Book Reflection
Daily practice of the Twelve Step program enables us to change from what we were to what our Higher Power would have us become.
Gray Book, p. 122 (Chapter Seven, Lines 8-10)
The Key for Recovery in Narcotics Anonymous is a Daily Practice of its Spiritual Principles. In active addiction most of us used drugs in one form or another, on a daily basis. We focused on the next one with very little in between.
As our disease progressed, our worlds began to shrink; we lost people, places and things. Some of us were on a twenty-four hour mission to find and use drugs. Our personalities took a dark twist and began to disappear with every use of drugs.
Toward the end of our progression, not even our Families and Friends recognized us. We became the product of the disease of addiction. Some of us sought help through medication, religion, psychiatry or rehabs.
Our Literature tells us that these things failed to find any solution that we can use. Arriving to Narcotics Anonymous was the Solution that worked for addicts like us. The Program of Narcotics Anonymous first called for the Surrender of its Spiritual Principles.
Complete and Total Abstinence from all mind and mood altering chemicals had to be Achieved for Recovery to be possible. The Spiritual Principles of N.A. are written so simply that we Practice them in our Daily Lives. The Steps and Traditions are our Living Program.
Our Literature is our written Program. Since Knowledge is not a substitute for Surrender, we have to make more Surrender. Our Positive actions and a Total Surrender are what makes our Recovery possible, Just For That Day.
Recovery in Narcotics Anonymous is capable of Transforming our personalities and Spirits. Narcotics Anonymous not only saved our Lives but also Granted us a Life most of us never knew. One of our Greatest Gifts is to be able to have a Relationship with a God of Our Own Understanding.
It works if we work it. It works if we don't work it, it'll just not work for you.