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Posted on October 16, 2021 Celebrations

JENNY WILL BE CELEBRATING 20 YEARS!!!! AT HER HOME GROUP’S 7 YEAR ANNIVERSARY on OCT 23RD AT ANOTHER CHANCE RECOVERY

Posted on October 16, 2021 Celebrations

CELEBRATING 13 YEARS OF RECOVERY on Nov 6th will be BRADLEY!!!!

Posted on October 16, 2021 Celebrations

JESSICA CELEBRATING 6 YEARS on Nov 13th at her Home Group Surrender

Posted on October 16, 2021 Celebrations

WILLIAM WILL BE CELEBRATING 11 YEARS ON Nov. 4th at ONE DAY AT A TIME!!!

Posted on October 16, 2021 Celebrations

Kathy M. WILL BE CELEBRATING 5 YEARS AT NEW BEGINNINGS Nov. 26th

Posted on August 21, 2021 Announcements

Staying Alive will be starting back its Saturday night meeting!!!!! Kicking off with a Pizza Party!!!! 6-7pm on 9/11/21

Posted on August 1, 2021 Announcements

Surrender will be moving back to Benson Baptist Church on Thursday August 5th!!!!!

Posted on August 1, 2021 Announcements

Another Chance of Recovery is starting a Saturday night meeting!!!! 8pm (same place as the Friday night meeting)

Posted on June 27, 2021 Announcements

Staying Alive is starting to in person meetings, starting July 1st, 7-8pm

Posted on March 20, 2021May 14, 2021 Announcements

Area will be meeting face to face at 105 E. Morgan st. in Benson (where Insight & Surrender meet) on May 15th at 4 pm, subcommittees meet at 3:30 pm

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Just For Today

October 20, 2021

Freedom to choose
Page 306
"Enforced morality lacks the power that comes to us when we choose to live a spiritual life."
Basic Text, p.45
In our active addiction, many of us lived our lives by default. We were unwilling or unable to make choices about how we wanted to act, what we preferred to do, or even where we would live. We allowed the drugs or other people to make our most basic decisions for us. Freedom from active addiction means, among other things, the freedom to make those choices for ourselves.

Freedom of choice is a wonderful gift, but it's also a great responsibility. Choice allows us to find out who we are and what we believe in. However, in exercising it, we're called on to weigh our own choices and accept the consequences. This leads some of us to seek out someone who will make our choices for us-our sponsor, our home group, our NA friends-just as our disease made our choices for us when we were using. That's not recovery.

Seeking others' experience is one thing; abdicating personal responsibility is something else. If we don't use the gift of freedom we've been given, if we refuse to accept the responsibilities that go along with it, we'll lose that gift and our lives will be diminished. We are responsible for our own recovery and our own choices. Difficult as it may seem; we must make those choices for ourselves and become willing to accept the consequences.

Just for Today: I am grateful for the freedom to live as I choose. Today, I will accept responsibility for my recovery, make my own choices, and accept the consequences.

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