21 Desemba

The use of drugs stopped our Spiritual and Emotional Growth. Most of us started using drugs at an early age, so there wasn't much Growth to begin with. Our Spirits completely closed and went to sleep.

Some say that when we stopped using drugs we were actually the same age emotionally, when we first started. Not to mention our Spirits were still asleep. What we needed was a personality change and an Awakening of the Spirit.

Narcotics Anonymous offers a New Way to Live and an Awakening of the Spirit through Working and Living the Steps. The first thing we have to do is stop using all drugs. The pain of Living without the drugs introduces us to a Power Greater than Ourselves in Step Two.

This Power Greater than Ourselves relieves our obsession to use drugs. We Decide to let this Power Guide us in our Recovery and in our Lives. This same Higher Power we call God in the Third Step makes it possible for us to Work the rest of the Steps.

Practicing a Living Program is so necessary for our personality transformation. We have to Live our way into good thinking, not think our way into good Living.

The Action must come first. As we use the Tools of the Program with the Help of our Higher Power, which some of us choose to call God, Sponsors, and the Fellowship, we start to Change over time. Sometimes this Change occurs behind our backs as we work and Live the Steps. We start to become the people we were meant to be all along.

The process begins with that first and continuing act of Surrender.

In This Moment: We will use the Necessary Tools in N.A. to Achieve a Personality Change and we will meet ourselves in the Process.