Experience

When we think back at what we've learned in life, are we happy or confident with that?  Angry? Relieved? Dismayed? How about hurt, disappointed, shocked, blessed, or satisfied?
Being assured that we have done the right thing is very comforting.  When we learn negative or hurtful things, they don't go away easily.  We really need to work at not repeating or even trying the undesirable things that we learn in life.

Just because someone else does those things does not mean they are in the right, in God's eyes, however it may be completely acceptable in today's society.  The Bible is God's way of telling us what's right when it comes to Heaven and what's wrong when it comes to earthly thinking. 

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices show us that if we think like God, then we can dwell with Him, when the time comes.  Free from all hurts, habits, & hang-ups.

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Like Minded

If we allow poor feelings to get the better of us, then we invite worse characters to dwell with us.  Poor company leads to poor thoughts.  Poor thoughts lead to bad actions.  Bad action leads to trouble.  If that's the very thing we are trying to walk away from, then why do we repeat the bad actions over and over again?

The company we keep will lead us to unbelievable places.  Negative people will lead us to negative places. Positive people will lead us to better places than that, some spectacular.  The weak in spirit will seek the strong, and the strong in spirit should mentor the weak in spirit.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices teach us that if you never seek to change, then you will never have it.

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Depression

Why is depression in life so different than an artists interpretation of a depression in a landscape?  They create beautiful renditions of natures depressions, whereas people display darker images of human depression.

Some of the ways it's created by being unsure of yourself, feeling defeated, abandonment, fear, or a lack of success.  We could be sooo needy that we can't focus on anything but our failures. We don't even see one success as being successful at all. It's all or nothing at those times.

What if there was a way to express human depression in an artistic way, a way to let others know what we need, feel, or want?  Maybe depression is just unvoiced creativity?  Maybe we don't really know what creativity is?

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices help to clear the debris in our minds so we can find who we truly are...deep down in the depressed areas of our mind.

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Uncertainty

Being uncertain can render you motionless.  Our relationships, finances, health, job, even our direction in life can have extreme detrimental effects on our well-being!  Too scared to move forward or sideways for fear of failing.  Thinking we are a loser or failure if we step backward.  The greater hinderance is reaching out to others for fear of rejection or judgement.

Uncertainty is so very real in our minds that it can kill our creativity, ambition, trick us into thinking we are something else, and flatten who we really are.

But the Bible tells us to thrive on uncertainty, to find joy in all things and situations, and to remember to thank God for our position in life.  A life in recovery from hurts, habits, and hang-ups is one that needs to be ready for uncertainty and to step out of the ruts we made for ourselves.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices help us to realize that God can change our whole life is the blink of an eye if He thinks we can handle it, so we should start thinking that way.

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Success v/s Failure

The Bible says to be content where you are and a level of success will meet you.  It probably won't be what the world thinks it is, but something far richer and more fulfilling.  However our focus remains on the worldly view, so it's hard to imagine something you've never seen before.  It's equally as hard to recognize something that you can't even imagine!

So changing directions or methods is still progressing, just not in the way we started.

Failure comes when our focus is on the goal and not the journey, on the prize and not on the sheer enjoyment of it.  Seeking a life with Christ is all about the journey and the sheer joy of it.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices teach us that there can be joy in amidst the dark times in our recovery.  We just need to focus on the joy.

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ME

Such a small word with huge implications!  So many battles have started because of it.  It's a view of things and people as being subject to us or objects below ourself. Our beliefs, feelings, and emotions are what drive it.

But what is it all about?  The core elements are power, greed, fear, & pride.  These cause us to act out in bizarre & selfish ways, disregarding everyone, but these are only symptoms of a bigger problem.

The layer under those symptoms that we were victim to are things like verbal, emotional & sexual abuse, abandonement, and having people who are a bad influence in our life.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices help us to dig deep into our emotional life to acknowledge & heal these broken areas deep within us.

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Gang Mentality

When someone says something against us, our natural instinct is to lash back for the injury.  But we respond in non-Biblical ways by telling others, and trying to win people over to our side to prove we are better than that, and make a liar out of the person who said it.  "Gang mentality". Yes it is quite a game!

The problem is we can't differentiate whether it is cruel or simply an observation, or an opportunity for us to grow.  We still take it personaly.  If only we could see God's voice in constructive criticism and less of "I'm hurt and I"m right", then our own personal world would be a far more peaceful place. 

The Bible says to go speak to that person and tell them about the injustice, and to only tell others when they refuse to speak to you about your grievance with them.  But courage is a topic for another day.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices teach us new ways to respond and courageous loving ways to speak to people instead of manipulation and brawn.

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Lust

It's mostly associated with sex, isn't it.  Money means the same thing to both rich and poor, they can never get enough!  But the Bible is very clear that "the lust of the spirit" is the cause of our downfall.  Lusting after sex, money, power, sloth, people, things, and ideologies.  These are the things that pull us away from God.  You see, if you put your own ideals in our agape love towards God, then it transforms into lust after things. 

The whole purpose of life on Earth is to teach us that "lust after stuff is temporarily rewarding", but agape love towards God means "internal peace forever", never having to worry because you know that God has your back!!!  Unpleasant things may happen but with a belief in God, all things correct themselves.  . . . But we must choose God.

Self-Help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices show us the difference between lust and "Agape Love".

 

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Visuals

Imagine if every word we said turned into large block letters over our head for the whole world to see.  Or if our concealed emotions did the same!  How on earth would we be able to even think?

Every cursed word, slanderous thought, mean action, every lie, deception, scowl, and grumble fully visible above our head.  Ill thoughts about people we don't have courage to say anything to, disrespectful treatment of the poor, harsh treatment of the disabled, even snarky comments to innocent passersby.

We may not be able to see those things right now but we certainly do wear those emotions on our faces and in our actions. It would either help us to be more honest or incredibly more crafty.

Proverbs 3:27 "Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help".

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices allows us to see images of ourself that we would normally not see on our own, which helps us to change for the better.

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Avoidance

It's a behavior that is clinically catalogued.  They say it is running away from our problems, skirting the inevitable, pretending a problem is not really there.    Never speaking of what we think of as taboo topics.  Not dealing with our problems.  What causes that is fear mostly. That's the earthly interpretation.

But theres another avoidance and that is staying away from what you know is bad for you, evil things in your life, places and people who can trip you up, activities that can alter your sound thinking.  If you have a desire to live a Godly life then avoidance of these things is most important, because our lives depend on our sound judgement of these things.

Proverbs 4:27 "Don’t deviate a bit to the right or the left; turn your feet away from evil." CEB

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices give us concrete reasons to stop looking at and seeking evil things. 

 

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Rich or Poor

Our view of things is always right, its the opposing individuals that are in conflict with us, complicating the fact that whether we are rich or poor emotionally, spiritually, or financially.  The rich find groups that meet their needs and the poor find groups that meet their needs, problem being they are always the same as us. No growth and no change.

We always look in the same places for the same things and rarely find it.  We need to look in new places for different things than we are used to and we are guaranteed to find something.  A person in their own state of poor needs to change one thing, to reach out and empathize with others less fortunate.  Rich or poor, each have their own challenges that are tough to break out of.  

Self-Help Groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices open our eyes to the "wise ways of Bible teaching",  Proverbs 21:11..."by paying attention to the wise they get knowledge".  

Look for somebody who is wise and then emulate them and you will become rich in spirit.

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Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy is when you cheerfully greet someone, but grumble behind their back.  When you play tricks on them but don't tell them.  It's when you have a problem with someone but don't talk to them about it.  You take things they say and misconstrue their words to others. When you lie to better yourself in some way.  It's when you claim to be righteous but you do the opposite.  Doing things to people behind their back and say "it's for their own good".  It's when you steal things and claim innocence.  Not telling someone about secrets told about them. It's saying one thing but acting differently.  It's when you secretly get even with someone.  When you don't tell the truth!!

In reality, hypocrisy is the bane of a healthy society.  So to be short and to the point, I guess hypocrisy is just being a liar!  Something we all abhor.

Self help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices teach us that the "truth in everything" is the only way to go.

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Rejection

Being rejected in relationships, by people in general, or even seeking a job is a very difficult thing to endure.  It erodes your confidence, gives you the impression your skills are invalid, wears away at your happiness, & dwindles your own view of yourself. When that happens, one of 2 things manifest; you give up completely or the animal core survival instinct kicks in. Either way, strange behaviors emerge, laws you respected fall away, and places & people become objects of opportunity.

Sometimes we are just missing one key piece of information that could change it all.  Sometimes we have to choose a direction rather than floating in despair.  Sometimes we need to try something new & put our faith to work.

The Bible says; "God helps those who help themselves", but the biggest difficulty in that is where to look!  That's where prayer comes in handy.  The Bible also says; "Ask in Jesus name and you will receive"! 

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices teach us that He will give us what we need, but maybe not what we want, but keep asking!

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Poverty

Like carbon monoxide, poverty is a silent killer!!  The focus is mostly around money, but little is said about poverty of the spirit.  Looking down on yourself and thinking you are not entitled to a prosperous future is part of the continuing cycle that encircles financial poverty. A vicious cycle that can lead to thoughts and behaviors that can circle back to a negative image of ourself. This is where our weaknesses can slowly erode our confidence.

The important thing is to keep our eye on a long term goal in life and not pay attention to the bumps in the road.  Easier said than done when you are always focused on the bottom of the bumps, but striving for a goal will help take our focus off the negative and place it on the positive.

Self-Help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices help to teach us that for the most part we really are able, it's sometimes we may not be willing to change.  Or even know that we can change.

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No Regrets

It's very hard to get to the place where you have dealt with all the dark secrets, misgivings, and turmoil in your life.  It's a place where we don't feel as bad about the things we have done or been done to us.
It's not that we don't care what we have done, but more becoming a pleasure to talk about our darkness's to others, so that they can find light in their life because we were willing to share with them our hurts, weaknesses, and strange behaviors.  They grow because we were open.  They understand because we were honest. They will emulate us because we are finally in the right.

God really, really likes that.  Those are the works that matter, so much so that the Bible tells us that God will reward us 10 times over for the small things, and 100 times over for the big things.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices guide us to making the right decisions, which we can pass on to others.

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Guilt

Guilt is actually a good thing.  True healing is starting to take place when we realize that we have done things to others that hurt them, took advantage of them, or used them, mostly without their knowledge.  Going back to them and clearing our conscience is the only way to remove guilt.

Carrying unresolved guilt around makes us angry & depressed.  It leads to strange behaviors and habits.  It causes us to be over sensitive & suspicious.  It scatters our thoughts & affects our daily life.

When we do decide to go back, people respond in 3 different ways, they thank us for telling them, don't really care either way, or get angry.  If they get angry then God is starting to work at healing their life too!  You're free....and soon they will be too!

Celebrate Recovery and Life's Healing Choices teach us how to talk about taboo topics with confidence and caring.

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Science Based Religion

Some great scientists says that when science meets a stalemate then it's time to connect the brain with the heart!  In other words, put your whole being into it.  If you think about it, religion or even a hobby is like that too.  There has to be a point that in order to keep our interest we need to have our heart in it.

God tells us that we need more than just a factual understanding of His word.  That's only the mechanics behind the religion, like words in a book.  Now it's time to do God's will, start living those words, to show others what those words mean and how to apply them.  But.... when we are focused on the tripping hazards, or addictions in our life, then that can't happen.  We stay where our heart is, no matter what our brain says!!

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices pose questions to us that get us to crack the shell that we have maintained for soooo long.

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Simple Addiction

The words of an addict: "For some reason I love what I hate and I become what I fear.  I loath the very thing that excites me, yet I continue".

In man's eyes it's called an addiction, but in God's eyes it's His sorrow.  You just don't realize the damaging effects to ourselves and others when we are blind to addictive states.  It can be the abuse of control, people, situations, and emotions.  These abuses lead to uncontrolled use of habits and substances.

It's really that simple but we make it infinitly complex.  We don't see the simple fix because we don't believe in it.  We expect healing to be a mountainous affair, but to God its a snap of His fingers....but....can we believe that?

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices teach us that if we don't believe God will heal us then His power given to us won't work!!

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Understanding Release

People finally stop doing a certain sin & Jesus cast out demons regularly.  What's the common denominator; whether we choose or are freed from a certain lifestyle?

It's understanding that we are doing wrong and if we continue we will go deeper and further into that lifestyle.  Further away from the light and whats right in God's plan. 

The Bible tells us that the "scales were removed from their eyes" & "their eyes were opened" and "your faith has set you free".  It also says that "the truth will set you free"!  These all relate to education and seeing the truth.  What it doesn't talk about is our choices which are keeping us in the lifestyle we abhor.  If we like the smallest thing about our favorite sin, then it will act like an anchor keeping our eyes blinded to the truth and stuck in our sin.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices teach us that we have to want total freedom or the demons will come back stronger than ever!

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Living Friendship

Being told that you're doing wrong can seem hurtful.  But look at it this way; would you rather have a friend tell you face to face that you screwed up?  Or... have an enemy talk about you behind your back?  There's an awful lot of people who say they are your friend, but have ulterior motives or they're not very brave.

There's something to be said for a courageous friend who can openly talk to you.  They obviously have your best interests at heart.  They dispel rumors about you by asking you about them.  There's not many of those people around is there?  So when you find one, treat them with the respect that they showed you. 

Prov 27:5 An open rebuke is better than hidden love!

Self-Help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices teach us to look at the person and discuss their sins with them, not talk about them. 

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Your Mistakes

Sometimes when we make mistakes we view that as a personal failure, a slice of proof that we are unintelligent or unteachable.  That is simply a lie that we perceive as true because other people don't have trouble with the things we do.  That part is true!!  Other people have problems with other things we find simple.  But this is pointless, lets talk about the reason!!

Fear of being ridiculed or labeled as stupid, drives us into despair.  We may view ourself as unworthy in God's eyes.  We fail doing something once and then give up.  So after that we have to act tough, be indifferent, use, drink, hang with the crowd we think fits us, or worse, sell ourselves.  Could you imagine if babies only tried walking once and then gave up?  Lol

Mistakes are inevitable, so the Bible tells us , and self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices show us that it takes time to perfect anything.  So mistakes are simply something to learn from, not hide or avoid.

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Empathy

Its something we all seek to a greater or lesser degree!

What is it really?  Its not something you need a PHD for.  You don't have to be good at math, or be methodical, or efficient.  You don't need perfect eyesight, be athletic or beautiful. Money, power, or prestige don't matter at all. Your color, ethnicity, and intelligence have little to do with it.

It is simply understanding!!  You need it and I need it.  We need to receive it and we need to give it!!  But most importantly, we need to show it and teach it too!  Chaos exists because we are ignorant to the fact that understanding would clear ALL transgressions.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices give us tools to understand the inner working of those around us and vice-versa.

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Tricky Maneuvers

We watch people sail through life, seemingly stepping around obstacles, bowling over problems, and out running traps.  But we smack into these obstacles, get rolled over, and trampled.  Why?

It's all about education!  We haven't figured out just yet that we can do all those things that other people do to avoid trouble.  We haven't learned that we need to work now so we can party later.We may see our future like a train light coming towards us in a dark tunnel.  Those stealthy people see their future as a vast open natural field with them being the train light.  While we stressfuly party under the pin light in the dark, they work hard in broad daylight so they can party later.  That's the difference.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices give us ways of pulling the blinders off so we can properly see where we are going.

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Purpose of Learning

Why do we need to learn things about how society acts?  Why should we conform to the laws of the land, or for that matter, "the laws of God"?

Welllll...The habits of a healthy society are the very ones we abandon under stress.  Chances are these things are our fault, I mean we had a pretty good idea of what is right or wrong but chose wrong anyway!! Why?  When you grow up in chaos, its hard to live in a law biding society.

I guess that brings us back to why do we need to learn how society acts?  Maybe we just need to prove it to ourselves that the law of the land stands, because good people want it that way.  Truth be told: we didn't have a good teacher or we were left on our own and now seeking attention.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices teach us to respect; people, laws, customs, but more-so, the Word of God!

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Plain Old Hatred

You have to look at why you hate someone.  It's usually because they remind you of you!!  Their mannerism are mirrored and shockingly reveal our mannerism.  We just don't like what we see.  So if we aren't honest with ourselves, we ignore, avoid, and criticize them.  That way we don't really need to acknowledge those horrible traits in us.  Projecting those unpleasantries gives us a...well...security blanket that makes us comfortable with no reason to change, because now its someone elses problem!!  I am who I am, but they are way worse.

Shunning our own failings is an addictive and compulsive behaviour.

Self Help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices help us to clean the mirror.

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I Used To Love You

How can you not love someone you used to?  We say we stop loving because we found something out about someone, or we can't forgive them for something we deem as wrong.

Maybe we are just avoiding them because they speak truth we don't want to hear?  Maybe our carnal instincts for substances or emotions lead us away?  Maybe we are too self-righteous and look down on them?  Maybe we personally wrestle with disobedience?  Maybe we lord things over them and they are avoiding us?  Or maybe we do things to annoy others and they don't love us anymore?

Maybe its time to look a gift horse in the mouth and realize that we are all fallen sinners, we all fall short no matter how right we think we are.  The opposite of "running away and condemning" is "running to and forgiving".  So it must be evil because God is Love!!

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices help us notice the maybes?

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Creating a Ritual

You see someone who is wholesome and righteous in your eyes, someone you want to emulate.  Maybe out of respect we don't ask them why they do the things they do because we don't want to appear like a simpleton!!  You copy their mannerisms and the things they do.  But do we ask why?  You take on their beliefs and start speaking their language.  But why?  You do well with that and others start emulating you and the things you were taught. But do they ask us why?  We may not give an answer anyway, because we don't know why either.   That's how false religious doctrines and questionable ways of living start, because we don't study the Bible, a book that could answer all of our questions.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices give us the opportunity to see these verses in action and to question everything "ANYBODY" tells you about doctrines on "ANYTHING". 

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Critical View

The easiest thing on Earth is to find fault with someone.  What they do is different from us, what they say is harsher, their facial looks cause us to cringe.  It's funny but we never really notice the more passive individuals.  That's because to them, we are different, harsher, and have stern facial features what appears to them.

It is the fallacy belief that the stronger person wins, sometimes no matter the cost.  By displaying excessively aggressive or demure stances, we simply indicate that we have a large weakness within, an unwholesomeness part of us is screaming for attention.  If we heal that then we find the middle ground where people will find peace just being around us.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices give us the tools that we need to find those weaknesses and finally deal with them, once and for all!!

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Where's the Peace?

Most people think that "once I complete this then I will have peace"!!  Okay after this next hurdle I will have peace...and so on!!  That sequence will be there throughout our entire life.

What we need to understand is that peace comes from within not from outside sources.  It's not a commodity or an award.  Peace is the understanding that we need to accept life as it is.  That doesn't mean we can't change our circumstances for the better,  it just means to accept the things we cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery and Life's Healing Choices teach us that the only fore sure thing in life is that we will have situations that can steal away our peace, if we let it!!

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Melee

The word melee has 2 opposing meanings.
1/ is the carnage created by of a crowd of people,
2/ a cluster of diamonds crowded together.

Either way, its a crowd!

The first one is caused by individuals following the example set by a leader who is a bit off base with reality, and certainly peace is not in their thinking. The actions created by this thinking are detrimental to other people, willfully or accidentally.  Calm is out the window and selfishness is at the forefront.  When one gets lost, no one really cares because the excitement is more important.

Number 2 is the result of an artist organizing a group of shining precisely cut diamonds into a rhythmic balance and clustered tightly together in extremely unique patterns.  When one of the diamonds gets lost, the owner goes looking for it.

#1 sounds like an unruly world & #2 sounds like God and His family

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices help us to realize what we are doing here on Earth!!

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The Aftermath

After the excitement of a party or the carnage of a riot and walking through the area, it tells a bit of a story.  The mess is usually the same, but how it's strewn about gives a few indicators.  You can tell what kind of people were there, if it was social by there being a slight order to the mess, or aggressive by broken debris, spills and turned over furniture. That's the visual!!

But relationships are a bit different as none of that mess is apparent. You can't see spilled emotions, crushed feelings, broken hearts, and careless maneuvers.  You mostly don't see the tears and hear the disparaging verbal blasts or exacting emotional facial expressions. That's mostly locked away [......FOREVER......]

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery and Life's Healing Choices give us the means to understand what we put people through and what other people do to us, by helping us organize our emotions and dealing with them quickly & openly.

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Confrontation

 Not sure why we look at confrontation as a bad word?  The dictionary term says; "a meeting face to face, and a bringing together of ideas for comparison".  Doesn't sound so bad to me!!  The problem is how uncomfortable it is for us to tell others the truth or receive it ourselves.  A lot of the time the conversation gets out of hand and we are forced to deal with a rather loud situation.  So it may not be a problem for us to share but we may be worried how others will take it, or . . . how we'll take it.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery and Life's Healing Choices teach us tools that can help us relate and receive unpleasant information in respectable ways.

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Issues With Purpose

Personal issues in our lives are simply designed to pick away at our fortitude. If we start with a weak constitution then it is not a far trip to the bottom. Mastering the temptations thrown in our path throughout our life, is the way to avoid these trip-ups that cause us sooo much grief.  Relate it to throwing gasoline near a fire, eventually the fumes from the fuel will drift toward the flames and ignite.

It's much the same with us!  If we don't stay away from temptations then the fumes from our behavior  will eventually reach the flames and we will be engulfed in a heated affair, sometimes without us even knowing!!

Celebrate Recovery and Life's Healing Choices are self-help groups that help us to learn about the trappings of the under laying of a darker world that is not necessarily visible to us...making us wiser!!

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Did you hear about so-n'-so?

Ever notice how our own sins don't seem as bad as other peoples? Hearing stories about people makes it easy for us to jump in to the carnage of trashing other people.  I guess it takes the focus off of our own failings, so its kind of a security blanket to protect ourselves.  We don't really stop to think about the effect we have on others in the midst of this, we just know that they are not talking about us at this point in time.  Not a very healing moment is it?

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery and Life's Healing Choices help us to focus the attention on ourselves and find true healing for our own hurts, failings, & transgressions.  Now that's a true healing moment!

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Cold Hard Facts

We spend our entire life trying to figure life out.  What makes people tick and what sends them and us into orbit.  We all like to think of ourself as a good person and usually see ourselves doing right.  We can forgive our own quirks and failings, but its a different story when it comes to forgiving others.  With our own quirks we find ways of expaining our misgivings to make our actions seem more palitable and reason our way through and soften the edges of our trangressions, but with others we only use cold hard facts about what they did and said.  All the nice explainations are gone and the plausible reasons no longer exist.  Why the unfair imbalance?

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery and Life's Healing Choices try to put us all on the same page and give us a correct view of looking at ourselves and others equally.

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