Recovery Thought of the Day - May 6th

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

Unconditional Love is not Unconditional Approval
Yesterday I trust you took a moment to bask in the unconditional love of God for you. Once and for all I hope you accepted that you are loved by God just as you are. And nothing can separate you from the love of God that is found in Christ Jesus, (Romans 8:38-39), nothing.

But the unconditional love of God does not mean God approves of our evil thoughts or the destructive behaviors we engage in.  God is not in favor of any expression of evil like, hatred, selfishness, violence, betrayal & oppression.  Because evil destroys relationships and goes against the love that God is trying to pour into our hearts.  To love without condition does not mean to love without concern for our wellbeing. God’s love wouldn’t be real if God didn’t care and want the best for us.

I hope you discover that a good CR sponsor is like that as well.  They love us, believe in us and ask us to show up, be honest, come clean and deal with our pain.  Why? It is out of concern and care.   They want us to grow, heal and flourish.  They don’t give up and stop loving us when we don’t respond or fail.  They wait.  Just as God waited for them on the same path of recovery, to come out into the (sun) light of God’s unconditional love and be made whole.

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.