This is my Tradition 5/7, step 12 

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• See my part and realizing, in recovery is nothing to do other than keeping your peace of mind;  essentially how you go about life and your attitude:  seeing the moments when you're indifferent and how you can meet Earnest Within sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly. 

acronyms and SLOGANS: Organized by Pancake Marathon

• Fear is the power of how I go about my life today, yes with the hope of god as I understand them, it is what keeps me at moments to halt: Even when I lose grip on love and going nuts;  we're at that moment I forget to think and Trust and the gift that I have now. To keep on Cultivate an attitude of gratitude: will help me to see How Important Is It.

Acronyms 

1. FEAR: Face Everything And Rise

2. HOPE: Happy Our Program Exists

3. GOD: Good Orderly Direction

4. HALT: if you're _ Hungry Angry Lonely Tired

5. LOVE: Let Others Voluntarily Evolve

6. NUTS: Not Using The Steps

7. THINK: is it...? Thoughtful Honest Intelligent Necessary Kind

8. TRUST: Try Relying Upon Steps and Traditions

Slogans

1. Cultivate an attitude of gratitude

2.  How Important Is It

• Slogans are wisdom written in shorthand and Acronyms are just the sum/the Virtues, of all that wisdom: WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives 

Slogans (underlined) blog page  Acronyms (bold) blog page  Principles (italic): A.A. files

Meeting topic

• Finding away to getting to 

• Love

• Life

• And who we want to be today

word of the month

• Honesty/Integrity/Concern/readiness

step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Step 12/to give where credit is due I got all of these readings from "recovery HQ" _ but I put them in a Living life on life's terms and to Better care of the message  and you can actually find all of them in Daily Readings and Inspirations

Spiritual principle a day: Love and Step Twelve

Page 134

"When we are practicing Step Twelve to the best of our ability, love becomes central to all that we do--there is no more powerful antidote to the despair and self-destruction of addiction."

Living Clean, Chapter 7, "Love"

Love in Narcotics Anonymous is the Twelfth Step in action. We felt the power of love when we entered our first meeting and were welcomed, no matter what we looked like, where we came from, how we smelled, or who we came with. We found open arms and true acceptance--perhaps for the first time in our lives. The hugs, genuine care and concern, and offers of support extended to us provide a powerful model of love in action.

In the beginning, allowing ourselves to receive this love takes some effort. Eventually, we get to give it away. That sounds simple, but it's not always easy. Through service, we learn to love even those members we don't really like. Sometimes we're surprised by what can happen when we focus on the primary purpose and choose principled actions.

One H&I subcommittee member recalled serving on a panel with his least-favorite person in the rooms. "We set our differences aside and focused on our primary purpose," the member shared. "We're never going to be best friends, but I could see his heart was in the right place. We both loved NA and wanted to help the addict who still suffers."

As NA members, we understand that sharing the message is an act of love. We share and we care to sustain our own recovery and to help the sick and suffering addict. It's what saves us all from the desperate and self-destructive lives we've known. After being in NA for some time, we also appreciate the love extended to those who've been here for a while, who need love just as surely as they did on their first day clean. While love alone may not help us overcome all our problems, it sure does provide a great springboard toward the solution.

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I will put love into action by carrying the NA message today.

Keep It Simple: The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.---Frank Lloyd Wright 

1. For many for us, life was a burden while using alcohol and other drugs. As our illness went on, life was  more ugly. We grew further from our friends, family, and Higher Power. In recovery, our eyes and hearts  open a little more each day. We see the beauty that life holds. We now see the beauty that life holds. We  now see that before recovery, we weren’t living---we were dying. In recovery, we again feel happy when  we hold a baby. We again may feel joy when we see a sunset. This happens mainly because we've chosen  to be with people who love life, people who've been given a second chance. Once we've almost lost  something important, it becomes more precious. We almost lost our lives. Now our lives are special. 

2. Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, thank-you for a second chance. Thank-you for opening my eyes and  heart. Give me the strength to keep them open.

3. Action for the Day: I'll list the most beautiful parts of my life. I'll open my heart today to the joy in store  for me. 

NA Just For Today: Write About It! 

1. "We sit down with a notebook, ask for guidance, pick up our pen, and start writing." Basic Text, p. 29 

2. When we're confused or in pain, our sponsor sometimes tells us to "write about it." Though we may groan  as we drag out the notebook, we know that it will help. By laying it all out on paper, we give ourselves  the chance to sort through what's bothering us. We know we can get to the bottom of our confusion and  find out what's really causing our pain when we put the pen to the paper.

3. Writing can be rewarding, especially when working through the steps. Many members maintain a daily  journal. Simply thinking about the steps, pondering their meaning, and analyzing their effect is not  sufficient for most of us. There's something about the physical action of writing that helps to fix the  principles of recovery in our minds and hearts. 

4. The rewards we find through the simple action of writing are many. Clarity of thought, keys to locked  places inside of us, and the voice of conscience are but a few. Writing helps us be more honest with  ourselves. We sit down, quiet our thoughts, and listen to our hearts. What we hear in the stillness are the  truths that we put down on paper. 

5. Just for today: One of the ways I can search for truth in recovery is to write. I will write about my  recovery today.

Daily Reflections: WALKING THROUGH FEAR 

1. If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 76 

2. When I had taken my Fifth Step, I became aware that all my defects of character stemmed from my need  to feel secure and loved. To use my will alone to work on them would have been trying obsessively to solve the problem. In the Sixth Step I intensified the action I had taken in the first three Steps -- meditating on the Step by saying it over and over, going to meetings, following my sponsor's suggestions,  reading and searching within myself. During the first three years of sobriety I had a fear of entering an  elevator alone. One day I decided I must walk through this fear. I asked for God's help, entered the  elevator, and there in the corner was a lady crying. She said that since her husband had died she was  deathly afraid of elevators. I forgot my fear and comforted her. This spiritual experience helped me to see  how willingness was the key to working the rest of the Twelve Steps to recovery. God helps those who  help themselves. 

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