Recovery Thought of the Day - May 5th

Good Morning CR Family!  Please see below for today's Recovery Thought of the Day from Perry C.

What is the unconditional Love of God?

If you’ve been around CR or church very long you’ve heard people say the love of God is unconditional.  What exactly does that mean?  God loves us and that love does not depend on what we do or don’t do, what we say or don’t say, our success or failures, our intelligence or ignorance, our destructive lifestyle or our path of recovery.  

In fact, the love of God occurs separate from us. God’s love existed before we were born and will exist after we die.  God is love and we are a recipient of that love. This is really good news. There is nothing we do to earn the love of God.  We merely open up our hearts and receive it.

It isn’t a perfect analogy but sometimes I think of God’s love being similar to sunshine. The sun’s rays bathe the entire earth with light and warmth.  There is nothing we do to deserve sunshine nor do we work to get it.  We merely receive the sun’s warmth and vitamin D as a gift. So, the next time you’re outside, lift your face toward the sun, open your arms wide to the side and soak it in, both the sun and the unconditional love of God for 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:

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.