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29/05/2026

May 29

"N.A. reawakened old memories of what it felt like to be a member of the human family."

Gray Book, p. 85 (Chapter Five, Lines 19-21)

Our Literature states that when we were using our living skills were reduced to the animal level. Many of us were just surviving and existing, we weren't Living. It seemed that our whole purpose became about using and finding the ways and means to continue using. Addiction is a contradiction to life. As addiction gained more and more territory of our Spirits, we went to sleep. We forgot how it was to be human. We became slaves to our addiction, and our worlds slowly shrank. Narcotics Anonymous was our welcome back to Life. It was our homecoming. Here, we met others that helped us with our Awakening. The first thing we were told was to achieve and maintain Total and Complete Abstinence from all mind and mood altering drugs. It was suggested that a meeting a day for the next 90 days would be a good idea. We were told to connect with others, get phone numbers, to dial them and not file them. The close contact along with the hugs, from these other members, encouraged us to keep coming back. The Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous Loved us till we learned how to Love ourselves. We learned that Spiritual Awakenings occurred as a result of Living the Program. The Steps and Traditions of Narcotics Anonymous gave Life to our Spirits. It gave us a Way Of Life that we never knew existed. This new-found Gift can only be renewed each day. We keep this Precious Gift by Sharing it with other new arrivals.

In This Moment: "Touching, sharing, and loving are actual tools of recovery for us."

29/05/2026

29/05/2026

TRUE TOLERANCE

The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 139

I first heard the short form of the Third Tradition in the Preamble. When I came to A.A. I could not accept myself, my alcoholism, or a Higher Power. If there had been any physical, mental, moral, or religious requirements for membership, I would be dead today. Bill W. said in his tape on the Tradi­tions that the Third Tradition is a charter for indi­vidual freedom. The most impressive thing to me was the feeling of acceptance from members who were practicing the Third Tradition by tolerating and accepting me. I feel acceptance is love and love is God's will for us.


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29/05/2026

Twenty Four Hours a Day

Friday
May 29
Thought for the Day
We who have learned to put our drink problem in God's hands can help others to do so. We can be used as a connection between an alcoholic's need and God's supply of strength. We in Alcoholics Anonymous can be uniquely useful, just because we have the misfortune or fortune to be alcoholics ourselves. Do I want to be a uniquely useful person? Will I use my own greatest defeat and failure and sickness as a weapon to help others?

Meditation for the Day
I will try to help others. I will try not to let a day pass without reaching out an arm of love to some one. Each day I will try to do something to lift another human being out of the sea of discouragements into which he or she has fallen. My helping hand is needed to raise the helpless to courage, to strength, to faith, to health. In my own gratitude, I will turn and help other alcoholics with the burden that is pressing too heavily upon them.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may be used by God to lighten many burdens. I pray that many souls may be helped through my efforts.

28/05/2026

May 28

"We have all spent much of our lives being anything but humble. We have been humiliated by many of the things that happened to us while using..."

Gray Book, p. 48 (Step Seven, Lines 15-17)

"...most of us avoided true humility until we worked the First Step." Our Unconditional Surrender made it possible to seek Help from a Power Greater Than Ourselves, in the Second Step. In the Third Step, through our Decision, we Humbly asked God to Guide our Will and our Lives. In Steps Four through Six, we Accept being human by acknowledging and loudly Admitting our faults. First to God, ourselves and to another Human being. Steps Seven through Nine we start to display our new-found Humility, by practicing Forgiveness in all aspects. Our Literature states that, "Humility is a part of staying clean, as food and water are to staying alive." Our Literature says, we devoted our energy towards satisfying our material needs. We never thought of Spiritual growth or asking a Higher Power for direction. Drugs were our Higher Power. We will volunteer for Humility or suffer humiliation.

In This Moment: By Admitting our powerlessness and unmanageability we achieve our first Glimpse of Humility.

28/05/2026

Twenty Four Hours a Day

Thursday
May 28
Thought for the Day
In A.A. we learn that since we are alcoholics we can be uniquely useful people. That is, we can help other alcoholics when perhaps somebody who has not had our experience with drinking could not help them. That makes us uniquely useful. The A.A.s are a unique group of people because they have taken their own greatest defeat and failure and sickness and used it as a means of helping others. We who have been through the same thing are the ones who can best help other alcoholics. Do I believe that I can be uniquely useful?

Meditation for the Day
I should try to practice the presence of God. I can feel that He is with me and near me, protecting and strengthening me always. In spite of every difficulty, every trial, every failure, the presence of God suffices. Just to believe that He is near me brings strength and peace. I should try to live as though God were beside me. I cannot see Him because I was not made with the ability to see Him else there were no room for faith. But I can feel His spirit with me.

Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may try to practice the presence of God. I pray that by doing so I may never feel alone or helpless again.

28/05/2026

EQUAL RIGHTS

At one time or another most A.A. groups go on rule­making benders. . . . After a time fear and intoler­ance subside, [and we realize] We do not wish to deny anyone his chance to recover from alcoholism. We wish to be just as inclusive as we can, never ex­clusive.

"A.A. TRADITION: HOW IT DEVELOPED," pp. 10, 11, 12

A.A. offered me complete freedom and accepted me into the Fellowship for myself. Membership did not depend upon conformity, financial success or edu­cation and I am so grateful for that. I often ask myself if I extend the same equality to others or if I deny them the freedom to be different. Today I try to replace my fear and intolerance with faith, pa­tience, love and acceptance. I can bring these strengths to my A.A. group, my home and my of­fice. I make an effort to bring my positive attitude everywhere that I go.
I have neither the right, nor the responsibility, to judge others. Depending on my attitude I can view newcomers to A.A., family members and friends as menaces or as teachers. When I think of some of my past judgments, it is clear how my self-righteousness caused me spiritual harm.