2 December

When all else fails, we can always not pick up and go to a Meeting. This physical act of Surrender keeps us Clean, saves our Lives, and makes Recovery possible. Some members say that the best time to go to a Meeting is when we don't want to go.

Even though the Steps are written from top to bottom, One through Twelve, we Recover inversely from our feet up. We start developing Smart Feet, by attending Meetings; that's part of our First Step. We have to bring our bodies and after time our minds will follow.

Spirituality is one of the last things we receive in the Recovery process. Ironically, Spirituality is the first thing we lose in a relapse process.

The Step Process reverses, at this point. We can find ourselves thinking that using is a good idea.

The disease talks to us in a voice we don't talk back to, our own. The disease fools us into thinking that we don't need a Meeting today. It makes us shift our Priorities from Recovery and Meetings, to work and family.

Some of us forget that we only have those Gifts because of Recovery and Clean Time. Our Second Step tells us that it's the process of coming to believe that restores us to Sanity. The Second Step treats the mental illness part of our disease, by relieving our obsessions. It's the actual action of going to Meetings and Sharing the Solution to the problem. We get Hope when listening for the Solution as other members Share their Experience, Strength and Hope. Just For Today we have to ask ourselves; "Is Recovery in Narcotics Anonymous still number one or is it somewhere in the top forties this week?"

In This Moment: We will perform a physical act of Surrender by attending a Meeting. This is the Spiritual Principle of Honesty in Action.