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GPR 2026 and Beyond — Combined Survey Findings
2026 World Service Conference Updates
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News
- Meeting & Events Search ChatWe have added a new feature to our site. We hope that it will make it easier to find meetings, events and other information related to our site. You can find it at: https://naworks.org/chat/ On the bottom of the page, there are some examples of what you can ask. Please feel free to try it …
- Regional Unity BBQ CookoutRegional Unity Committee Presents the AnnualRegional Unity BBQ Cookout Saturday, September 19,202612 PM-6PM Location:33rd Street & Diamond Street, Philadelphia, PA 19121Meetings until 5 PM Food . Fellowship . UnityUnity Is a MustPersonal Recovery Depends on NA Unity
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Just For Today:
October 11, 2026 |
Eyeglasses and attitudes |
| Page 297 |
| "Our best thinking got us into trouble...Recovery is an active change in our ideas and attitudes." |
| Basic Text, p. 55 |
| In active addiction, the world probably looked like a horrible place. Using helped us tolerate the world we saw. Today, however, we understand that the world's condition wasn't really the problem. It was our ideas and attitudes about the world that made it impossible for us to find a comfortable place in it. Our attitudes and our ideas are the eyeglasses through which we see our lives. If our "glasses" are smudged or dirty, our lives look dim. If our attitudes aren't well focused, the whole world appears distorted. To see the world clearly, we need to keep our attitudes and ideas clean, free of things like resentment, denial, self-pity, and closed-mindedness. To insure our vision of life is in focus, we have to bring our ideas in line with reality. In addiction, our best thinking kept us from clearly seeing either the world or our part in it. Recovery serves to correct the prescriptions in our attitudinal eyewear. By stripping away our denial and replacing it with faith, self-honesty, humility, and responsibility, the steps help us see our lives in a whole new way. Then the steps help us keep our spiritual lenses clean, encouraging us to regularly examine our ideas, our attitudes, and our actions. Today, seen through the clean lenses of faith and recovery the world looks like a warm, inviting place to live. |
| Just for Today: I will view the world and my life through the clean spiritual lenses of my program. |
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Spiritual Principle A Day:
October 10, 2026 |
Connected to Our Purpose |
| Page 293 |
| "We begin to feel connected to the world around us and our lives have purpose." |
| Living Clean, Chapter 3, "Creative Action of the Spirit" |
| Disconnection is one of the hallmark features of addiction. Whether being disconnected leads to drug use, or the use of drugs causes us to lose connection, most of us ended up feeling pretty isolated and alienated by the time we first came to NA. Some of us feel connected right away when we get clean. Others keep coming back for months or years to get there--but when we stop using and start living the program, that sense of connection begins to grow. "The members who immediately directed me to service helped me feel like I had purpose," one member wrote. "They carried a message to me, and then right away they involved me in carrying a message to others. I became part of something bigger. I felt connected in a way I hadn't felt before." What we connect to and what our purpose is may not be the same for every addict or for every phase of recovery. Feeling reconnected to humanity by virtue of being an NA member is a big part of early recovery for many of us--and we find an abundance of meaning and purpose in sharing our recovery with other addicts. Usually, as long as we're still clean and still coming to meetings, this sense of purpose stays with us. But more is available, too. Many of us develop a sense of connection and purpose in other areas of our lives, as well. We may get involved in a particular religious practice, begin volunteering in our community, or find meaning and beauty in art, fashion, fitness, or a career. The opportunities to find purpose in our lives are as varied as our membership, and they need not diminish the sense of purpose we gain by sharing with others in NA. In fact, they often enhance what we have to offer. |
| Where addiction is isolation and alienation, recovery is connection and purpose. I will seek out greater connection to the world around me to deepen my sense of purpose in it. |
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