16 Oktoba

When we first arrived to Narcotics Anonymous, most of us were broken. A lot of us were in pain, and had lost almost everything that was near and dear to us; most of all we lost ourselves. We were at the end of our road. Everything we tried failed to bring any relief or answers to our problems. Our pain and withdrawal from using drugs were inevitable.

The pain of Living without drugs, and the lifestyle, forces us to seek a Power Greater Than Ourselves. After Complete and Total Abstinence, this Power relieves our obsession to use. This Power restores our Hope and Grants us Freedom from active using. We identify this Power in the Third Step. We build Trust with the God Of Our Own Understanding as a result of the evidence in our and other's Lives.

This Relationship takes on a more personal meaning as we progress through the Steps. In the Eleventh Step, we see that most of our Prayers are answered. By this time in our Recovery, our Prayers become really simple. We pray for our basic needs.

At times, we Pray for our wants; things we think we need. We soon find out that it isn't God's Will for us. What we received caused us more pain and sometimes insanity in our Lives. Our Sponsors told us to be careful what we Prayed for because we might get it. Then we might have to Pray for its removal. We learned to be Responsible in our Prayers.

In This Moment: We will Pray for Knowledge of God's Will for us. We will Pray to want the things we have. Not Pray to have the things we want.