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NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS
is a fellowship designed and administered by a bunch of ex-druggies
whose only qualifications for membership are that they can't use
drugs and have decided they don't want to learn how. Not that they
could
anyway, they never could, and it's highly unlikely that they ever
would. NA
has no rules, dues or fees, nor anything else that any sensible
organization
seems to require.
At meetings, the speaker starts on one subject, winds up talking about
something entirely different, and concludes by saying he doesn't know
anything about the program except that it works. The groups are
always
broke, yet always seem to have money to carry on. They are always
losing
members but seem to grow. They claim NA is a selfish program but they
always
seem to be trying to give it away and to do something for others. Every
group passes laws, rules, edicts and pronouncements that everyone
blithely
ignores; members who disagree with anything have the privilege to walk
out
in a huff, quitting forever, only to return as if nothing has happened
and
be greeted accordingly. Nothing is ever planned 24 hours ahead, yet
great
projects are born and survive magnificently. Nothing in NA is
according to
Hoyle.
How can it survive? Perhaps it's because we have learned to live and
laugh
at ourselves. God made man. He made laughter too. Perhaps he is
pleased
with our disorganized efforts and makes things right no matter who
pushes the wrong button. Maybe he is pleased, not with our lack of perfection,but with our sincerity. Maybe he is pleased with our trying to be nobody
but ourselves. We don't know how it works, but it does, and members keep receiving their dividends from their NA investments. It is smart to be clean, and much easier, my friends, to stay clean than to get clean.
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