‘There's a huge difference between resignation and surrender. Resignation is what we feel when we've realized we're addicts but haven't yet accepted recovery as the solution to our problem. Many of us found ourselves at this point long before coming to Narcotics Anonymous. We may have thought that it was our destiny to be addicts, to live and die in our addiction. Surrender, on the other hand, is what happens after we've accepted the First Step as something that is true for us and have accepted that recovery is the solution. We don't want our lives to be the way they have been. We don't want to keep feeling the way we've been feeling.’
(source: NA Step Working Guide pg 6)
What am I afraid of about the concept of surrender, if anything?
04/09/10 3:00 PM
I’m not afraid of this concept at all. I’m finding that faith, acceptance and powerlessness are working quite well in helping me deal with life.
I can’t complain. Yeah, shit might not work the way I want it to but maybe I don’t have enough information to really have a good grasp of healthy, practical ‘wants’. So I roll with things, apply effort and allow the lessons to come.
(source: NA Step Working Guide pg 6)
What am I afraid of about the concept of surrender, if anything?
04/09/10 3:00 PM
I’m not afraid of this concept at all. I’m finding that faith, acceptance and powerlessness are working quite well in helping me deal with life.
I can’t complain. Yeah, shit might not work the way I want it to but maybe I don’t have enough information to really have a good grasp of healthy, practical ‘wants’. So I roll with things, apply effort and allow the lessons to come.