Good Morning CR Family!  Please see below for today's Recovery Thought of the Day.  Also, if you missed CR Friday Night Live last night, make sure to check out our YouTube Channel (link below).  I had a great conversation with Pastor John Smith about the beginnings of Celebrate Recovery at Crossroads Church as we celebrate the 16 year anniversary of CR at Crossroads.

Blessed are the Persecuted
During my morning quite time this morning, I was meditating using and App called Abide that one of my Brother's in Recovery turned me onto.  The mediation revolved around the Beatitude found in Matthew 5:10. Over the course of 10 minutes, the app read me the verse several time, using different translations.  The translation that resonated with me the most today was from the Message Traslation: " You’re blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God’s kingdom ."

As I thought more about the verse, I realized how applicable it is as we live out our daily recoveries.  Have you ever been ridiculed because you chose not to go out drinking with some of your per-recovery friends?  Have you been given a hard time because you chose to take the high road and work and not participate in office gossip?  Or maybe you have been belittled because you decided to stop hanging around friends that you know are actively using drugs?  As a people pleaser, this can be hard for me at times...the feeling that I am letting somebody down. However, now that I am in recovery, I daily need to remind myself that the only person I need to seek my self worth from is from God.  When I make those choices that helps me stay safe  in my recovery, no matter how disappointed others may be,  it is comforting to know that those choices are pulling me deeper into God's Kingdom!

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.