JFT April 17, 2013
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JFT April 17, 2013
Just For Today
April 17, 2013
Priority: Meetings
So we began again. Following our sponsor’s suggestion, we made a commitment to attend ninety meetings in ninety days. We identified ourselves as newcomers for our first thirty days so that others could get to know us. At our sponsor’s direction, we stopped talking long enough to learn to listen. We soon began to look forward to meetings. And we began to stay clean.
Today, we attend meetings for a variety of reasons. Sometimes we go to meetings to share our experience, strength, and hope with newer members. Sometimes we go to see our friends. And sometimes we go just because we need a hug. Occasionally we leave a meeting and realize that we haven’t really heard a word that’s been said—but we still feel better The atmosphere of love and joy that fills our meetings has kept us clean another day. No matter how hectic our schedule, we make meeting attendance our priority.
Just for today: In my heart, I know that meetings benefit me in all kinds of ways. Today, I want what’s good for me. I will attend a meeting.
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April 17, 2013
Priority: Meetings
“I initially felt that it would be impossible to attend more than one or two meetings a week. It just wouldn’t fit in with my busy schedule. I later learned that my priorities were [180] degrees reversed. It was the everything else that would have to fit into my meeting schedule.”
Basic Text p. 204
Some of us attended meetings infrequently when we first came to Narcotics Anonymous, then wondered why we couldn’t stay clean. What we soon learned was that if we wanted to stay clean, we had to make meeting attendance our priority.Basic Text p. 204
So we began again. Following our sponsor’s suggestion, we made a commitment to attend ninety meetings in ninety days. We identified ourselves as newcomers for our first thirty days so that others could get to know us. At our sponsor’s direction, we stopped talking long enough to learn to listen. We soon began to look forward to meetings. And we began to stay clean.
Today, we attend meetings for a variety of reasons. Sometimes we go to meetings to share our experience, strength, and hope with newer members. Sometimes we go to see our friends. And sometimes we go just because we need a hug. Occasionally we leave a meeting and realize that we haven’t really heard a word that’s been said—but we still feel better The atmosphere of love and joy that fills our meetings has kept us clean another day. No matter how hectic our schedule, we make meeting attendance our priority.
Just for today: In my heart, I know that meetings benefit me in all kinds of ways. Today, I want what’s good for me. I will attend a meeting.
Copyright (c) 2013, NA World Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Hi Veritas! Since I got this job I have cut back from 7 meetings to about 3-4.
I am glad I had the opportunity to go to lotsa of them at one time, but it was finally time to start applying what I learned in the real world. There is not enough time in the day for everything I want to do. Hard finding balance in the beginning.
Thanks for this post. I hope I don't ever get to confident to think I don't need meetings. I know this addiction centers in my mind and without a few meetings a week I would be telling myself I have this thing under control and next thing I know I would be back to the insanity of the first drink or first drug.
Meetings remind me of where I was not so long ago and gives me hope of where I can be if I stay on this path.
I am glad I had the opportunity to go to lotsa of them at one time, but it was finally time to start applying what I learned in the real world. There is not enough time in the day for everything I want to do. Hard finding balance in the beginning.
Thanks for this post. I hope I don't ever get to confident to think I don't need meetings. I know this addiction centers in my mind and without a few meetings a week I would be telling myself I have this thing under control and next thing I know I would be back to the insanity of the first drink or first drug.
Meetings remind me of where I was not so long ago and gives me hope of where I can be if I stay on this path.
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