Solitude
The past six weeks have been emotionally difficult for me. I live alone, my grown kids live in North Carolina and Oregon and my trusted friend Simon, the beagle died a few years ago. I am acquainted with loneliness and solitude but only since Covid-19 has solitude become my daily companion.
What I am discovering is solitude is not an easy place for me to be. Because it is here, I find myself: my fears, insecurity, addictions, anger, resentment and today my deep need for recognition and approval.
For those of us in recovery this is where we kind of hangout. Facing ourselves, being real with God and others, it’s a big part of working the 12 steps. And in that honest place if we don’t run away but listen well, we will hear the voice of God remind us we are radically accepted just as we are. And God’s unfailing love promises to be with us through each and every difficult season as he guides us out of the darkness and into the light. So, hang on.
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 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.
- 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 Tuned! 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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