Recovery Thought of the Day - June 4th

Good Morning CR Family,

Please see below for today's Recovery Thought of the Day from Perry C:

No Change is Too Small

US Navy Admiral, William McRaven, delivered a speech in which he stated, if you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.”  I love that.  Look for things in our lives upon which we can exert influence and do it. And it’s okay to start small.  The success of doing a small task provides a sense of accomplishment that motivates us to do another small task.  Truth is, it’s often the little changes in life that matter.  Saying I love you to your spouse, going out and looking for a job (again), being kind, showing up for a friend, saying no to violence, being generous or patient with a child or co-worker.  Every small change produces a new outcome.

In recovery change is essential.  If we don’t change, we will continue to get the same unfulfilling, painful results that brought us into recovery in the first place.  Just like the Admiral said, the change does not need to be impressive or substantial, it can be as small as making your bed.  Sometimes in recovery we fall into the trap of having grandiose ideas of the changes we want to see manifested in our lives and forget the importance of starting small and doing the little things.  When we make small changes in our daily routine, we learn to accept change as a normal part of our growth cycle and are less likely to resist it.  And making small changes makes it easier to make big changes when we need to do so.

Jesus taught, “If you are faithful in the little things, more will be given to you,” Luke 19:17.  So today, be sober, make your bed and start to change your world.

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.