Just for Today: A simple program, July 1st, The program is simply sharing, working the Twelve Steps, attending meetings, and practicing the principles of the program.

Just for Today: Comparing, July 2nd, Our personal stories may vary in individual pattern, but in the end we all have the same thing in common.

Just for Today: Quiet time, July 3rd, Many of us have found that setting aside quiet time for ourselves is helpful in making conscious contact with our Higher Power:

Just for Today: Conflict, July 4th, We learn that conflicts are a part of reality, and we learn new ways to resolve them instead of running from them.

Just for Today: Exploring spiritual options, July 5th, The nature of our belief will determine the manner of our prayers and meditation.

Just for Today: I'm sorry, July 6th, The main thing does for us is to help build awareness that, little by little, we are gaining new attitudes about ourselves and how we deal with other people.

Just for Today: God in each other, July 7th, One aspect of our spiritual awakening comes through the new understanding of our Higher Power that we develop by sharing another addict's recovery.
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We've heard it said that we often see God most clearly in one another. We see the truth of this when we practice our Twelfth Step. When we carry the recovery message to another addict, we sense the presence of a Power greater than ourselves. And as we watch the message take hold, we realize something else.

It's the message that brings recovery, not the messenger. A Higher Power, not our own power, is the source of the change that begins when we carry the message to a still-suffering addict. As the message does its work, transforming the life of another addict, we see a Higher Power in action. We watch as acceptance and hope replace denial and despair. Before our very eyes, the first traces of honesty, open- mindedness, and willingness begin to appear. Something's happening inside this person, something bigger and more powerful than either of us. We're watching the God we've come to understand at work in someone's life. We see the Higher Power in them. And we know with greater certainty than ever that this Higher Power is in us, too, as the force driving our recovery.

Just for today: As I carry the message of recovery to other addicts, I will try to pay attention to the Power behind the message. Today, as I watch other addicts recover, I will try to recognize the God in them so I can better recognize the God in myself.

Just for Today: The "G" word, July 8th, It is important for you to know that you will hear God mentioned at NA meetings. What we are referring to is a Power greater than ourselves that makes possible what seems impossible.

Just for Today: We do recover?, July 9th, ...the time has come when that tired old lie, "Once an addict, always an addict," will no longer be tolerated by either society or the addict himself. We do recover.

Just for Today: A positive attitude, July 10th, That old nest of negativism followed me everywhere I went.

Just for Today: Encouragement, July 11th, We share comfort and encouragement with others.

Just for Today: Patience, July 12th, We were trapped by our need for the instant gratification that drugs gave us.

Just for Today: Humility in action, July 13th, If we are hurting, and most of us do from time to time, we learn to ask for help.

Just for Today: An "inside job", July 14th, Social acceptability does not equal recovery

Just for Today: Relations with others, July 15th, We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

Just for Today: Self-esteem, July 16th, Deep inside, I had feelings of inadequacy and inferiority.

Just for Today: Using our "using dreams", July 17th, Do we fully accept the fact that our every attempt to stop using or to control our using failed?

Just for Today: The gift of desperation, July 18th, Our disease always resurfaced or continued to progress until, in desperation, we sought help from each other in Narcotics Anonymous.

Just for Today: Fulfilling our dreams, July 19th, Dreams that we gave up long ago can now become realities.

Just for Today: Step One, July 20th, We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.

Just for Today: Surrender is for everyone, July 21st, If after a period of time, we find ourselves in trouble with our recovery, we have probably stopped doing one or more of the things that helped us in the earlier stages of our recovery.

Just for Today: Spiritual Death, July 22nd, For us, to use is to die, often in more ways than one.

Just for Today: Surrendering self-will, July 23rd, We want and demand that things always go our way. We should know from our past experience that our way of doing things did not work.

Just for Today: The masks have to go, July 24th, ...we covered low self-esteem by hiding behind phony images that we hoped would fool people. The masks have to go.

Just for Today: Twelfth Step "failure"?, July 25th, Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Just for Today: Unconditional surrender, July 26th, Help for addicts begins only when we are able to admit complete defeat. This can be frightening, but it is the foundation on which we have built our lives.

Just for Today: We do recover?, July 27th, After coming to NA, we found ourselves among a very special group of people who have suffered like us and found recovery. In their experiences, freely shared, we found hope for ourselves. If the program worked for them, it would work for us.

Just for Today: Secrets and intimacy, July 28th, We feared that if we ever revealed ourselves as we were, we would surely be rejected.

Just for Today: Expectations, July 29th, As we realize our need to be forgiven, we tend to be more forgiving.

Just for Today: Regular inventory, July 30th, Continuing to take a personal inventory means that we form a habit of looking at ourselves, our actions, attitudes, and relationships on a regular basis.

Just for Today: Freedom from active addiction, July 31st, Narcotics Anonymous offers only one promise and that is freedom from active addiction, the solution that eluded us for so long.

Just for Today: Guilt, August 1st, Our addiction enslaved us. We were prisoners of our own mind and were condemned by our own guilt.

Just for Today: Practicing honesty, August 2nd, When we feel trapped or pressured, it takes great spiritual and emotional strength to be honest.

Just for Today: Trusting people, August 3rd, Many of us would have had nowhere else to go if we could not have trusted NA groups and members.

Just for Today: When is a secret not a secret?, August 4th, Addicts tend to live secret lives. It is a great relief to get rid of all our secrets and
to share the burden of our past.