Anything!
“Our disease has been arrested, and now anything is possible. We become
increasingly open-minded and open to new ideas in all areas of our lives.”
Basic Text, p.102
For many of us, our first few months or years in NA are a wonderful time. We’re
willing to try anything, and our eyes are constantly opened to new joys and new
horizons. Finally freed from active addiction, our recovery young and fresh, anything
seems possible.
With a little clean time under our belts, however, there may be less urgency to our
program. We might be quite as willing as we once were to put to use the experience
of others. We may have encountered a few seemingly intractable defects in our
character, whittling away at the boundless optimism of our early recovery. We know
too much to believe that anything is possible.
How do we restore enthusiasm to our recovery? We pray about it; we share about it;
and we seek out the enthusiasm we are lacking. There are members-some with more
time clean than ourselves, some with less-who have the enthusiasm we seek, and
who will be happy to share it with us if we ask them to. To gain the benefit of their
experience, however, we must practice open-mindedness and become teachable
again. When we become open to new ideas and willing to try them out we’ll find that,
once more, anything seems possible.
Just for today: There is always more to learn and someone to learn from in my
recovery. Today, I will be open to new ideas and willing to try them out. As long as I
am, I know that anything is possible.