Just For Today - Regular meeting attendance

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September 6

Regular meeting attendance

"We have learned from our group experience that those who keep coming to our meetings regularly stay clean." Basic Text, p. 9 ––––=–––– The NA program gives us a new pattern of living.  One of the basic elements of that new pattern is regular meeting attendance.  For the newcomer, living clean is a brand-new experience.  All that once was familiar is changed.  The old people, places, and things that served as props on the stage of our lives are gone.  New stresses appear, no longer masked or deadened by drugs.  That's why we often suggest that newcomers attend a meeting every day.  No matter what comes up, no matter how crazy the day gets, we know that our daily meeting awaits us.  There, we can renew contact with other recovering addicts, people who know what we're going through because they've been through it themselves.  No day needs to go by without the relief we get only from such fellowship. As we mature in recovery, we get the same kinds of benefits from regular meeting attendance.  Regardless of how long we've been clean, we never stop being addicts.  True, we probably won't immediately start using mass quantities of drugs if we miss our meetings for a few days.  But the more regularly we attend NA meetings, the more we reinforce our identity as recovering addicts.  And each meeting helps put us that much further from becoming using addicts again. ––––=–––– Just for today:  I will make a commitment to include regular meeting attendance as a part of my new pattern of living.

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