NA Daily Meditations

NA Meitations

Feel free to read one of our 2 daily meditations.

Just For Today
Spiritual Principle A Day

Just For Today

January 16, 2026

Make that call!

Page 16

“We feared that if we ever revealed ourselves as we were, we would surely be rejected…. [But] our fellow members do understand us.“

Basic Text, p. 32

We need our fellow NA members–their experience, their friendship, their laughter, their guidance, and much, much more. Yet many of us hesitate to call our sponsor or visit our NA friends. We don’t want to impose on them. We think about phoning someone, but we don’t feel worthy of their time. We fear that if they ever got to know us–really know us–they’d surely reject us.

We forget that our fellow NA members are just like us. There’s nothing we’ve done, no place we’ve been, no feeling we’ve felt that other recovering addicts won’t be able to identify with. The more we let others get to know us, the more we’ll hear, “You’re in the right place. You’re among friends. You belong. Welcome!”

We also forget that, just as we need others, they need us. We’re not the only ones who want to feel like we belong, who want to experience the warmth of friendship, who want someone to share with. If we isolate ourselves from our fellow members, we deprive them of something they need, something only we can give them: our time, our company, our true selves.

In Narcotics Anonymous, recovering addicts care for one another. What waits at the other end of the telephone is not rejection, but the love, warmth, and identification of the NA Fellowship. Make that call!

Just for Today: In NA, I am among friends. I will reach out to others, giving and receiving in fellowship.

Spiritual Principal A Day

January 17, 2026

Striving for Integrity, Always

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“Integrity is the consistent application of spiritual principles, no matter what the circumstances.”

It Works, Tradition Two, “Applying Spiritual Principles”

We recognize the ultimate authority in NA groups to be a loving Higher Power that’s expressed in our group conscience, according to Tradition Two. For better or worse, however, we entrust mere mortals–and addicts, no less–to carry out our decisions. To do right by this Tradition, it’s important to choose trusted servants who demonstrate “the full range of personal characteristics associated with a spiritual awakening,” according to the Fourth Concept essay. We select such leaders and we evolve into those kinds of people as we live clean and work the Steps.

As trusted servants, we do our best to practice integrity as we fulfill our commitments. Yes, that’s a big order, but the Steps prepare us well. Some might even say integrity is the proof in the pudding, the evidence of how working the Twelve Steps transforms us. “By the time Step Twelve told me to ‘practice these principles in all my affairs,'” one member said with pride, “I was ready to do just that. I’ve come a long way, baby!” We become people with character and backbone, the kinds of people who do the right thing even when no one’s watching.

Of course, the real effort of character building starts long before we get through all Twelve Steps. It’s perhaps most apparent when we’re in the thick of Steps Six and Seven, which give us a close look at some of our deeply ingrained bad habits. The price we’ve paid for living this way was starkly detailed in our inventory. We know what we don’t want. Now, we take the opportunity to identify and practice healthier, more spiritual ways to deal with situations as they arise in all our affairs.

And practice we do. Like so much in recovery, thinking and character follow the course set by our actions. We might think of right actions as the seed, which–in time–produces the fruit of good character. We do good works, practice virtuous behavior, and become people with integrity.

Regardless of the circumstances, who’s looking, or what’s convenient, I will adhere to my new code of conduct today.