Hiding Place

Some place where the world can't see you cry or writhe in uncomfortable situations.  A place where our mask is greater than our self worth. Where our pride trumps everything.  A time when the value of anything is less, than us saving face or maintaining our standing in our peer group.  We can physically lock ourself away or find a comfortable addiction that makes us look smart.

People will suffer because of our pent up anger, our lashing tongue, and what seems that we don't care about anything or anyone because of the things we say and do.

Being in a place like that allows us to act like a rabid Pitbull whenever we are challenged with good, or our actions called into question.  It's like our nerve endings are exposed.

Self-Help groups like Celebrate Recovery and Life's Healing Choices help us to see what we really look like when we are deceived beyond our reality; basically what other people see.

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Why not start some new good clean habits today?



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Co-Dependency

Interesting word and mostly misunderstood.  It's on a scale of:
1/ mentally having the insatiable desire to be with someone who abuses you - to -
2/ saying and doing things that are out of character to gain the acknowledgement of others.

It's a hard road to be, or feel unloved & unwanted.  To think that your contributions don't matter, or that your presence is insignificant.  However, when you give people what they want and do things that allow other people to take notice of you, then it feels good.

Addiction has many faces and none of them are pretty, but that doesn't stop us from making ourselves ugly just so people will notice us.

Self help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices teach us how to pull the masks off and be comfortable with just our self.

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Shunning

When someone does something that offends you, how do we, and should we respond?  If we are more uncontrolled we could blow up at them. If we are more passive we could avoid them.  If we are afraid of them we could shun them.  If we are more ignorant then we could gossip about them.  Or a combination of all the above.  Really?  It happens more than you can imagine, and in every workplace, religious institution, family, marriage, & organization.  None are spared as revenge is rampant!  The person who offends innocently or what seems maliciously is an easy target.  The person who avenges in secret is filled with bitterness, fear, envy, and unforgiveness.

The Bible is clear when it says to; "go to your offender and try to clear the air by making your misgivings know to them".  Oh it also says "don't forget about the plank in your own eye".

Self Help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices help us to gain the confidence and wisdom to approach our offenders with the healing touch that Christ gives us, but only if we ask for it!

   Join us for our Easter Celebration
                          this Wednesday April 16, 2014 at 6:15 pm.

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Getting Even

We've all done things to others that gets them into a riled state, and they've responded in kind by getting even with us.  To hurt us so we know not to mess with them in the future.  Maybe you've gotten even with someone because of something they did to you.  An "eye for and eye" kind of thinking.

What if it was an accident?  What if the person doesn't even know they did something wrong or its a vicious rumor and we get even with them anyway?  The whole problem with this thinking is that we are supposed to go to the person first and bring their transgression to their attention.  If they refuse to acknowledge or make good their mistake then the "eye for an eye" rule takes place.  Society has forgotten to "speak to the person who wronged you first and work it out".

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices teach us to get over our anger and start a meaningful conversation with someone no matter what they've done or we have perpetrated.

PS: (by the way, getting even is a short term fix for us much like any other disorder.  It's the opposite of forgiveness)

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Your next choice

If you have a desperate or defeated mind, decisions made in that moment of passion will alter yours or someone else s life forever.  It's a time when we should be counting to 10 and coaxing ourselves to relax, but instead we fall victim to our own selfish desires to try to calm our feelings in a mechanical way with; bullying, drugs, alcohol, sex, theft, eating disorders, lying, etc.  But the worst thing we can do is try to coax others down to our deplorable state so we don't feel alone.

It seems that being alone amplifies our feelings of despair!!  Perhaps that's why Jesus spent 40 days in the desert, to root these things out so it no longer has any power over us.  That's the power of fasting!!

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery and Life's Healing Choices help us to recognize circumstances that we may be blind to in ourselves.

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Holding Out

Being alone is a choice!!  Not lonely, but just alone.  I guess its the reason for being alone that's most important.  Are you staying away from situations that may trigger a response in you to act out in an illegal, immoral, or unethical fashion?  Then you will be alone, but that's something to rejoice in and not feel bad about.  You obviously understand that God has magnificent plans for you, but the trick is; to stay in His will.

It's very hard keeping yourself out of a fun situation.  A time when everyone is having the time of their lives, except you. . . because of your moral base!!  Finding peace in that seems to take the edge off of why you chose to be alone in the first place.

Self help groups like Celebrate Recovery and Life's Healing Choices help us to investigate other ways of filling our time when we DO choose to be alone because of our moral choices.  Congratulations on taking the steps necessary to think about these things.

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What's meant to be yours!

You've heard that when you set something free, if it comes back to you then it is yours.  If it doesn't come back to you, then it never was.  That belief system requires something called faith. Faith is the same element that we must use when we place our trust in God.

God did the same thing with us.  He set us free to do our own thing, however He did leave us with an easy out; the "Bible".  Basically a collection of do's and don'ts, right and wrong, if we choose to even read it.

So as we aimlessly wander the world's ways, adopting what we think is cool or right in our own eyes.  God patiently waits for us to return to Him so we can fit into His tapestry.  Which means walking away from our own constructed world.

Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices give the means to understand what God's plan is and help us realize how damaged our thinking can be in the process.

Why not stop in Wednesday Nights at 6:15 pm. NO Appointment Necessary!!

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Why not start some new good clean habits today?



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