This I feel is true.
Love is more than just
How I feel for you
It is the force that makes rain
Fall towards the ground
It is the void inside me
When you're not around
It is the plants striving up
Towards the Sun
It is the interconnectedness
That makes us all of one
It is the force that binds
All the atoms together
The root and cause of hurricanes
And all other kinds of weather
It is the underlying drive
Behind all the world's strife
It is both cause and effect
The true meaning of life
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An interesting synchronicity today. I just received tomorrow's "just for today" and it is quite relevant.
ReplyDeleteNovember 03, 2010
No matter what
Page 321
"We eventually have to stand on our own feet and face life on its own terms, so why not from the start."
Basic Text, p.88
Some of us feel that we should protect newcomers by telling them that, while everything used to be horrible, now we're in recovery it's all wonderful. We feel that we might scare someone away if we speak of pain or difficulties, broken marriages, being robbed, and the like. In a sincere and well-intentioned desire to carry the message, we tend to talk glowingly only about what's going well in our lives.
But most newcomers already suspect the truth, even if they've only been clean for a few days. Chances are that the "life on life's terms" the average newcomer is experiencing is quite a bit more stressful than what the average oldtimer deals with each day. If we do manage to convince a newcomer that everything becomes rosy in recovery, we had better make sure we are there to support that newcomer when something goes wrong in his or her life.
Perhaps we simply need to share realistically about how we use the resources of Narcotics Anonymous to accept "life on life's terms," whatever those terms may be on any given day. Recovery, and life itself, contain equal parts of pain and joy. It is important to share both so the newcomer can know that we stay clean no matter what.
Just for Today: I will be honest with the newcomers I share with and let them know that, no matter what life brings, we never have to use drugs again.
lol wrong day. I guess I should have paid more attention. I read my email but copied the web page.
ReplyDeleteNovember 4
Exchanging love
“...we give love because it was given so freely to us. New frontiers are open to us as we learn how to love. Love can be the flow of life energy from one person to another.”
Basic Text, p. 105
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Love given, and love received, is the essence of life itself. It is the universal common denominator, connecting us to those around us. Addiction deprived us of that connection, locking us within ourselves.
The love we find in the NA program reopens the world to us. It unlocks the cage of addiction which once imprisoned us. By receiving love from other NA members, we find out—perhaps for the first time—what love is and what it can do. We hear fellow members talk about the sharing of love, and we sense the substance it lends to their lives.
We begin to suspect that, if giving and receiving love means so much to others, maybe it can give meaning to our lives, too. We sense that we are on the verge of a great discovery, yet we also sense that we won’t fully understand the meaning of love unless we give ours away. We try it, and discover the missing connection between ourselves and the world.
Today, we realize that what they said was true: “We keep what we have only by giving it away.”
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Just for today: Life is a new frontier for me, and the vehicle I will use to explore it is love. I will give freely the love I have received.