Gri Kitap Yansīmasī
We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
Gray Book, p. 30 (Step One, Header)
In Narcotics Anonymous our Admittance must be followed by actions. Aligning our actions to the Truth is a form of Surrender.
This is how the Honest Desire can be measured by ourselves. Our First Step states when we Admit our powerlessness and unmanageability, in our Lives, we open the door to Recovery and a Power to Help us. We don't take credit for arriving to Narcotics Anonymous.
We were beaten into submission. Our level of Surrender is measured by our Willingness to Try. We do the action called for in the First Step by Attending Meetings, getting and using a N.A. Sponsor, reading our Literature, joining and getting a commitment at a Home Group and developing a Support network.
These are just suggestions if you want to Achieve and Maintain Abstinence and make Recovery possible. There's a deeper level of Surrender and Admittance as we progress with the Steps and Traditions. We Practice this Living Program of Narcotics Anonymous to Maintain this Daily Reprieve, from the horrors of addiction.
In the First Step we develop smart feet as we Attend Meetings. We start to Recover from our feet up. If we don't Practice these suggestions, then we're not Practicing Honesty, and we're actually closing that door to Recovery and that Power that will Help us.
In This Moment: We will do more than Admit we're addicts with our lips. We will Align our actions to the Truth.