NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS
is a fellowship designed and administered by a bunch of
ex-druggies whose only qualifications for membership are that theycan't use
drugs and have decided they don't want to learn how.  Not thatthey could
anyway, they never could, and it's highly unlikely that they everwould.

NA has no rules, dues or fees,
nor anything else that any sensible organization seems to require.

At meetings, the speaker starts on one subject, winds up talkingabout
something entirely different, and concludes by saying he doesn'tknow
anything about the program except that it works.  The groupsare always
broke, yet always seem to have money to carry on.  They arealways losing
members but seem to grow. They claim NA is a selfish program butthey always
seem to be trying to give it away and to do something for others.

Every group passes laws, rules, edicts and pronouncements that everyone blithely
ignores; members who disagree with anything have the privilege towalk out in a huff,
quitting forever, only to return as if nothing has happened andbe greeted accordingly.

Nothing is ever planned 24 hours ahead,
yet great projects are born and survive magnificently.
Nothing in NA is according to Hoyle.

How can it survive? Perhaps it's because we have learned to liveand laugh
at ourselves.  God made man.  He made laughter too. Perhapshe is pleased
with our disorganized  efforts and makes things right no matterwho pushes
the wrong button. Maybe he is pleased, not with our lack of perfection, but
with our sincerity. Maybe he is pleased with  our trying tobe nobody but ourselves.
 

We don't know how it works, but it does, and members keep receiving their
dividends from their NA investments. It is smart to be clean, andmuch
easier, my friends, to stay clean than to get clean.

To contact me use the following link:   stevea@members-of-na.com
 

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