Recovery Thought of the Day - May 26th

Good Morning CR Family! Please see the Recovery Thought of the Day from Perry C:

This reflection is taken from Day 9 of the Celebrate Recovery 365 Daily Devotional.  I read it in the mornings along with my Bible.

Even When I’m Cranky
“As my wife and I boarded a flight for London to teach a training seminar, we were told that there would be a delay.  The plane was full and after two hours on the runway, most of us were hot, tired and sweaty and becoming more and more cranky and agitated.  But seated in front of us was a woman who provided a much-needed example of Christlike behavior in uncomfortable circumstances.

This woman was a grandmother, who was juggling a screaming toddler.  Though the baby cried for a full two hours, the woman never once lost her composure or let the smile slip from her face.  Instead she continued to try to comfort the child.  Once the plane finally took off, the baby went to sleep.  But the grandmother continued to hold her for the next nine hours.  Never once did she complain, set the baby down or hand her to someone else.

Long after the flight was over, I thought about how our heavenly Father is much like that grandmother.  God puts up with us when we are cranky, tired, crying, complaining and just plain no fun to be around.  God never loses his cool or his desire to comfort us.  God is right there carrying us, never putting us down or handing us off to someone else.  No matter what we are going through, we can trust that God will always be there for us.”

Prayer: “Heavenly Father, I am thankful for your faithful watch-care over us.  You have promised never to leave us no matter what circumstances we encounter.  In Jesus name, Amen.”

Announcements:

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.