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Keeping the Gift<\/p>\n

Life takes on a new meaning when we open ourselves to this gift. Page 276.<\/p>\n

\"Gift\"<\/a>
Gift<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Basic Text, p.107. Neglecting our recovery is like neglecting any other gift we are given. Suppose someone gave you a new car. Would you let it sit in the driveway until the tires rotted? Would you just drive it, ignoring routine maintenance, until it expired on the road? Of course not! You would go to great lengths to maintain the condition of such a valuable gift.<\/p>\n

Recovery is also a gift, and we have to care for it if we want to keep it. While our recovery doesn’t come with an extended warranty, there is a routine maintenance schedule. This maintenance includes regular meeting attendance and various forms of service. We have to do some daily cleaning-our Tenth Step-and, once in a while, a major Fourth Step overhaul will be required. But if we maintain the gift of recovery, thanking the Giver each day, it will continue.<\/p>\n

The gift of recovery is one that grows with the giving. Unless we give it away, we can not keep it. But in sharing our recovery with others, we come to value it all the more.<\/p>\n

Just for Today:\u00a0My recovery is a gift, and I want to keep it. I will do the required maintenance, and I will share my recovery with others. – (c) 2018. NA World Services.<\/p>\n

Step Four.<\/p>\n

Step Ten.
\nWe continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.<\/p>\n

Give it away
\nGeorge Strait
\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/KpZiGsvETKk<\/a><\/p>\n

She was storming through the house that day
\nAnd I could tell she was leaving
\nAnd I thought, aw, she’ll be back
\nTill she turned around and pointed at the wall an said<\/p>\n

That picture from our honeymoon
\nThat night in Frisco Bay
\nJust give it away
\nShe said, give it away
\nAnd that big four-poster king-size bed
\nWhere so much love was made
\nJust give it away
\nShe said, just give it away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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