Recovery Thought of the Day - May 7th

Good Morning CR Family!  Please see below for today's Recovery Thought of the Day from Perry C. Also, if you have not had a chance to yet, make sure to sign up for this Friday's Open Share Groups (See Sign Up Links in Announcements below).

5^th Step

Joining a 12-step group, doing the homework, showing up week after week, listening to others and sharing our story with the group takes courage and resolution.

 In step five, “We admit to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” All the dark hidden secrets of our past we openly share with a trusted person in recovery.  The Bible says, “Confess our sins to each other and pray for each other so that we may be healed,” James 5:16. James, the brother of Jesus, knew confession yields forgiveness but also restorative healing in our lives.

During the 5^th step the most amazing things happen.  We let go of excuses and denial when we tell our truth to another person.  This leaves us feeling honest for once, free and clean on the inside. We lose our sense of aloneness and isolation as we share our story.  And in receiving radical acceptance, we in turn are free to forgive ourselves and others.  In doing this we gain true humility and develop compassion for all people on the planet.  We are growing.

Is it hard? Yes. Is it worth it? Absolutely.  Who can you encourage today on their recovery journey?

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.