Recovery Thought fo the Day - April 30th

Good Morning CR Family!  Please see below for today's Recovery Thought of the Day from Perry C. Also, make sure to tune into CR Friday Night Live tomorrow.  John Smith, Crossroads Church's founding Pastor is going to join me to talk about the beginnings of Celebrate Recovery at Crossroads. Last Friday was the 16th anniversary for Celebrate Recovery at Crossroads.

Beauty of the Cross

A few years ago, I worked in a Catholic hospital as a chaplain in the Denver area.  We had a small chapel on the first floor that was open to the public, staff and of course family members who needed a quiet place to pray, think, reflect, give thanks and cry.  It was a sacred holy place, a refuge from the illness, disease and pain that brought patients through the doors of the hospital.

Being a Catholic institution, the chapel had a cross hanging in the middle of the far wall that displayed a three-dimensional image of Christ crucified and it was powerful.  There the lifeless body of Jesus hung, arms outstretched, head bowed and surrender made. It was hauntingly beautiful.  This was God letting all of humanity know just how much he loves us.

Today have you ever wondered where God is in the midst of your recovery struggle and pain?  Look to the cross.  See Jesus hanging there for you, taking on all the sin, separation and pain you’ve ever felt.  God is not distant.  He is there ready to meet you, but you need to enter the chapel, the quiet place of your heart to meet him.  Jesus truly understands and knows what you are experiencing. So, don’t run away from God.  When you hurt, draw near to God and he will draw near to you.  Peace be yours this day.

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:

1. If you are in need of prayer, please send your prayer requests to CelebrateRecoveryatCrossroads@gmail.com and we will forward those on to our celebrate recovery prayer team. The Crossroads Church Prayer team would also love to pray for you, so when you send your E-mail, please note if you are okay with us forwarding your prayer request to the church.
2. 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. 
3. 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

Blessings,
James U.