Newsletter Submission - Esperanza Area of Narcotics Anonymous

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Upcoming Events

12:00 pm, January 24, 2020 – January 26, 2020 – Southeastern Zonal Forum

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm, January 24, 2020 – Freedom speaker

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm, January 24, 2020 – Miracles Happen speaker

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, January 25, 2020 – Boerne NA 7 Year Anniversary

10:45 am – 3:00 pm, January 26, 2020 – Area Service Committee Meeting

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm, January 27, 2020 – Lifeguard speaker

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm, January 28, 2020 – A New Way Speaker

All Day, January 31, 2020 – February 2, 2020 – TBRCNA 2020

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm, January 31, 2020 – Recovery North speaker

9:00 am – 5:00 pm, February 8, 2020 – Regional Service Conference

2:00 pm – 9:00 pm, February 15, 2020 – Activities "Unconditional Love" Event

All Day, February 22, 2020 – CAR Workshop

All Day, March 7, 2020 – Spiritual Awakening 15 Year Anniversary

All Day, March 14, 2020 – Tejas Bluebonnet Regional Assembly

2:00 pm – 7:00 pm, March 21, 2020 – Spiritually Refreshed Women of NA 1st Anniv.

12:00 pm, September 11, 2020 – September 13, 2020 – Multi-Zonal Service Symposium of NA

Just For Today

January 22, 2020

The school of recovery

Page 22

"This is a program for learning."

Basic Text, p. 16

Learning in recovery is hard work. The things we most need to know are often the hardest to learn. We study recovery to prepare ourselves for the experiences life will give us. As we listen to others share in meetings, we take mental notes we can refer to later. To be prepared, we study our notes and literature between "lessons." Just as students have the opportunity to apply their knowledge during tests, so do we have the opportunity to apply our recovery during times of crisis.

As always, we have a choice in how we will approach life's challenges. We can dread and avoid them as threats to our serenity or we can gratefully accept them as opportunities for growth. By confirming the principles we've learned in recovery, life's challenges give us increased strength. Without such challenges, however, we could forget what we've learned and begin to stagnate. These are the opportunities that prod us to new spiritual awakenings.

We will find that there is often a period of rest after each crisis, giving us time to get accustomed to our new skills. Once we've reflected on our experience, we are called on to share our knowledge with someone who is studying what we've just learned. In the school of recovery, all of us are teachers as well as students.

Just for Today: I will be a student of recovery. I will welcome challenges, confident in what I've learned and eager to share it with others.

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