Tháng 9 ngày 20

Chapter One in our Gray Book p. 7, Lines 25-27 says that "Addiction is a treatable disease: as soon as we begin to "treat" our addiction by working the Twelve Steps that have worked repeatedly, we experience very positive results. " Many of us arrive at our first N.A. Meeting Spiritually dead; Emotionally crippled and in poor Physical Health. Overwhelmed by shame, guilt, self-hatred and the painful rewards of our self-centered lifestyle, we are relieved to find that we have a treatable disease. In N.A., we have evolved a concept of the disease of addiction, as derived by addicts Recovering in N.A.

Ours is a Spiritual Solution, a Daily Application of Spiritual Principles that arrests our disease and makes Recovery possible. Our Literature tells us that "With each meeting we attend, seeds planted in earlier meetings are watered until we can see them grow to harvest. This harvest is a form of spiritual growth. " This tells us that our Spirits need to keep Growing and Awakened as a Process and Progression.

Recovery is a Process that takes WORK to keep the Miracle alive. Relapse is an automatic Process that takes NO WORK, for us to die.

Time after time, we've seen long timers in Narcotics Anonymous, tired of Working the Program, give in to medication as an answer to their poor Spiritual condition. A Spiritual Problem cannot be solved with chemicals. If we find ourselves in poor Spiritual condition, we've probably slighted in our Step Work, Praying to the God of Our Understanding, and stopped working with others.

A return to the Basics is the only thing that can Help save us at this point. Complacency is the enemy of any addict with clean time.

If we never leave the Basics of this Program, we never have to return to them.

In This Moment: We will be Grateful we have a Spiritual problem that is treatable by applying the Spiritually Based Twelve Steps and Traditions in our Lives.