Recovery Thought of the Day - April 28th

Good Morning CR Family!  Please see below for today's Recovery Thought of the Day. Also, make sure to check out the announcement section for the sign up links for open share groups.

Safer at Home
As I was reading through the Governor's new guidelines for the Safer at Home Order, it reminded me of the several safeguards that I have established throughout my recovery to protect me from temptation or a relapse.  I remember when I first established my safeguards, I found them to be restrictive, I thought that I was missing out.  However, in reality,  the safeguards that I have established are not restricting me but bringing me freedom to continue to grow in my relationship with God. 

Before recovery I was enslaved to my addiction.  Yes, I pretty much did whatever I wanted to do, but doing whatever I wanted to do rather than letting God lead my life, led me to be a prisoner of my addiction.  Rather than fully experience the goodness in this life, I looked for every opportunity to partake in my addiction.  Rather than establishing healthy and meaningful relationships, I was Isolated.  I spent so much energy covering my tracks so I wouldn't get caught... I was enslaved and that was no way to live.  Now, whenever the thought that my safeguards are restricting me creep in, I remind myself of what live was like before recovery and I quickly realize how much better life is living free from my hurts habits and hangups

What safeguards is God telling you that you need to put in place so that you can start experiencing freedom from your hurts, habits and hang-ups?

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.