Just For Today - Aug 8 Comments Welcomed
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Just For Today - Aug 8 Comments Welcomed
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Responsible Recovery
"We accept responsibility for our problems and see that we're equally responsible for our solutions."
Basic Text, p.94
Some of us, well accustomed to leaving our personal responsibilities to others, may attempt the same behavior in recovery. We quickly find out it doesn't work.
For instance, we are considering making a change in our lives, so we call our sponsor and ask what we should do. Under the guise of seeking direction, we are actually asking our sponsor to assume responsibility for making decisions about our life. Or maybe we've been short with someone at a meeting, so we ask that person's best friend to make our apologies for us. Perhaps we've imposed on a friend several times in the last month to cover our service commitment. Could it be that we've asked a friend to analyze our behavior and identify our shortcomings, rather than taking our own personal inventory?
Recovery is something that has to be worked for. It isn't going to be handed to us on a silver platter, nor can we expect our friends or our sponsor to be responsible for the work we must do ourselves. We recover by making our own decisions, doing our own service, and working our own steps. By doing it for ourselves, we receive the rewards.
Just for today: I accept responsibility for my life and my recovery.
pg. 230
Just For Today Daily Meditation is the property of Narcotics Anonymous©
Responsible Recovery
"We accept responsibility for our problems and see that we're equally responsible for our solutions."
Basic Text, p.94
Some of us, well accustomed to leaving our personal responsibilities to others, may attempt the same behavior in recovery. We quickly find out it doesn't work.
For instance, we are considering making a change in our lives, so we call our sponsor and ask what we should do. Under the guise of seeking direction, we are actually asking our sponsor to assume responsibility for making decisions about our life. Or maybe we've been short with someone at a meeting, so we ask that person's best friend to make our apologies for us. Perhaps we've imposed on a friend several times in the last month to cover our service commitment. Could it be that we've asked a friend to analyze our behavior and identify our shortcomings, rather than taking our own personal inventory?
Recovery is something that has to be worked for. It isn't going to be handed to us on a silver platter, nor can we expect our friends or our sponsor to be responsible for the work we must do ourselves. We recover by making our own decisions, doing our own service, and working our own steps. By doing it for ourselves, we receive the rewards.
Just for today: I accept responsibility for my life and my recovery.
pg. 230
Just For Today Daily Meditation is the property of Narcotics Anonymous©
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New York State
Posts: 3,067
This is one of the most important readings in that book, for me. NA tells us that we can't get recovery by osmosis!! I understand today that recovery is a matter of putting one foot in front of the other and continuing to move forward, allowing others to assist me, but ultimately making my own decisions about where the next foot goes. Each step, whether positive or negative, provides me with an opportunity to learn and grow. Although I'm not responsible for my disease, I am responsible for my recovery. No one can give me recovery or recover for me, I have to seek it and strive for it.
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: anomaly
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Ooo.. i just love it when my sponsors gives me riddle instead of solving
all my problems for me. He is encouraging , thou. It's a skill i havn't fully aquired,
to actaully encourage someone to do things they don't wanna do.
it's a good thing I have a sense of humor. I'm seriouse about my recovery,
but I don't take myself too seriouse...seriousely.lol
I guess my sponsor did rub off on me in a way..he just laughs at me sometime
and say "have you had enough yet ?".
So I go home and ponder the simple riddle he had giving for weeks..lol
Holy schmoly..it hurts my head...it's not complicated enough for an addict
like me..which makes it so hard. It s a simple program...
EASY...DO IT...lol
As much as I hate my alcoholic father sometimes, i still love him very much.
Do as he saids and not as he do is something i had to work on.
He is right thou. He watch me one christmas morning wacking away at
my duaghter's tricycle becuase the damn thing didn't wanna go together.lol
He said son " if it's too hard..you're doing it wrong"
all my problems for me. He is encouraging , thou. It's a skill i havn't fully aquired,
to actaully encourage someone to do things they don't wanna do.
it's a good thing I have a sense of humor. I'm seriouse about my recovery,
but I don't take myself too seriouse...seriousely.lol
I guess my sponsor did rub off on me in a way..he just laughs at me sometime
and say "have you had enough yet ?".
So I go home and ponder the simple riddle he had giving for weeks..lol
Holy schmoly..it hurts my head...it's not complicated enough for an addict
like me..which makes it so hard. It s a simple program...
EASY...DO IT...lol
As much as I hate my alcoholic father sometimes, i still love him very much.
Do as he saids and not as he do is something i had to work on.
He is right thou. He watch me one christmas morning wacking away at
my duaghter's tricycle becuase the damn thing didn't wanna go together.lol
He said son " if it's too hard..you're doing it wrong"
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: TN
Posts: 1,372
"Recovery is something that has to be worked for" I agree so much, and i think that in following with that, TRUST and RESPECT must be worked on by our loved ones. They cant trust us fully overnight, or repsect what we did, but we can prove it to them by taking it one day at a time, and doing the next right thing all the time!!
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