Please see below for the Recovery Thought of the Day from Perry C. Also, make sure to check out the announcements for the sign up links for this week's share group meetings.
Recovery Thought of the Day:
Desire to Heal
Play this song before or while you are reading the thought of the day: "Prize Worth Fighting For," Jamie Kimmett
When I was a young Christ follower, I came to the realization that my roving addictions, low self-image, pervasive fear and difficulty with maintaining healthy relationships revealed that my life was, as we say in recovery, “unmanageable” (step one). It just wasn’t working. I felt like everyone else knew how to play the game of life and I missed out on the instructions.
I had and still do have this continual deep desire within me to grow, get healthy and succeed (which to me means use up all the potential God has given me). But it hasn’t always been easy and smooth sailing. Just because we commit our lives and wills over to the care of God and we’ve gotten ourselves into a 12-step program and we want to change, it is still hard work.
At least for me it has been.
For example, one day a trusted recovery friend gave me a paperback copy of the book, “Safe People” by Dr. H. Cloud. I started reading it and ten pages in I hurled it across the room in anger. It was clear from the reading, I was an “unsafe person”. As hard as that was to read and accept. It was also another little death or surrender that helped me get entirely ready to have God remove all my defects of character, (step six). And so, the journey of recovery progresses, step by step, one day at a time and the good news is that you are not alone!
What area of your life has God been working with you on this week?
If you would like someone to reach out to you, text us your E-mail and name to 970-645-6109 and we will have someone from within CR reach out to you.
Note: The thought of the days along with other key updates will also be posted on our facebook page (Celebrate Recovery at Crossroads Church Facebook Page) and for those without facebook, they will also be posted on the following blog site: https://crossroadscr.blogspot.com
UPDATES/REMINDERS:
- If you are in need of prayer, please send your prayer requests to CelebrateRecoveryatCrossroads@gmail.com and we will forward those on to our prayer team.
- Fridays at 6:30pm, We are hosting "CR Friday Night Live." To subscribe to our youtube channel please click on the following link and select the subscribe button. CR Youtube Channel Link . There will be a song or two of worship and then a short recovery based dialog between a couple of CR members. This will be streamed on youtube.
- Fridays we will be hosting on-line open share group meetings at 7:30pm. There will be one mixed issues group for men and one mixed issues group for women. Men's Open Share Group Sign-Up Link / Women's Open Share Group Sign-Up Link. These meetings will take place using the Zoom App. In order to participate you will need a tablet, smart-phone or computer with camera. In order to ensure confidentiality of these meetings everyone who participates will need to find a private room to set up, have their camera on, so others can see that there is no one else in the room and they will also need to wear a pair of headphones so that they are the only ones that can hear. This is a free app and you can download it on google play, apple app store or through your web-browser on your computer. For help on how to join a Zoom meeting please click on the the following link, which will take you to their support web-site Zoom Set-Up Help
James U.
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