JFT October 27
The truth shall set you free
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JFT October 27
October 27, 2010
Living In The Present
"We want to look our past in the face, see it for what it really was, and release it so we can live today."
Basic Text, p.28
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For many of us, the past is like a bad dream. Our lives aren't the same any more, but we still have fleeting, highly charged emotional memories of a really uncomfortable past. The guilt, fear, and anger that once dominated us may spill into our new life, complicating our efforts to change and grow.
The Twelve Steps are the formula that helps us learn to put the past in its place. Through the Fourth and Fifth Steps, we become aware that our old behavior didn't work. We ask a Higher Power to relieve us of our shortcomings in the Sixth and Seventh Steps, and we begin to be relieved of the guilt and fear that plagued us for so many years. In the Eighth and Ninth Steps, by making amends, we demonstrate to others that our lives are changing. We are no longer controlled by the past. Once the past loses its control over us, we are free to find new ways to live, ways that reflect who we truly are.
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Just for today: I don't have to be controlled by my past. I will live this new day as the new person I am becoming.
Copyright © 1991-2010 by Narcotics Anonymous World Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Living In The Present
"We want to look our past in the face, see it for what it really was, and release it so we can live today."
Basic Text, p.28
-----=-----
For many of us, the past is like a bad dream. Our lives aren't the same any more, but we still have fleeting, highly charged emotional memories of a really uncomfortable past. The guilt, fear, and anger that once dominated us may spill into our new life, complicating our efforts to change and grow.
The Twelve Steps are the formula that helps us learn to put the past in its place. Through the Fourth and Fifth Steps, we become aware that our old behavior didn't work. We ask a Higher Power to relieve us of our shortcomings in the Sixth and Seventh Steps, and we begin to be relieved of the guilt and fear that plagued us for so many years. In the Eighth and Ninth Steps, by making amends, we demonstrate to others that our lives are changing. We are no longer controlled by the past. Once the past loses its control over us, we are free to find new ways to live, ways that reflect who we truly are.
-----=-----
Just for today: I don't have to be controlled by my past. I will live this new day as the new person I am becoming.
Copyright © 1991-2010 by Narcotics Anonymous World Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The truth shall set you free
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 5,267
I still have some painful thoughts about the past, but I am not controlled by them any more.Today I can accept my past as it is, through the 12 steps a higher power of my understanding a caring sponsor and fellowship to work them with me, I have tools to work through the guilt, anger, and regrets. Today I live in the present.
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Originally Posted by yonanjan 
Yeah!!!!!! I am 10 years clean today. I am filled with gratitude today. Who would have thunk it? NA you have never failed me. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
congrats
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