Hurdles

When we have an emotional injury from childhood that hasn't been realized or properly dealt with, we have a predisposition to seeking a lifestyle that incorporates similarities of that injury.  Abused can seek abusers, addicts center their life around that substance, the abandoned crave any kind of attention (bad is the easiest), living without rules and you seek to manipulate, excessive cricitism can lead to depression & eating disorders, and the list goes on.

Hurdle #1 is when someone points that problem out in us. It may be very hard for us to accept it as "MY problem", so hurdle #2 is realizing we need help.  Once we piece our history with our actions, to our current problems, our demeanor starts to change.  Hurdle #3 is getting to the point that we realize this is a normal reaction when we finally admit our denial to the original problem.

Self-Help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices give us the opportunity to realize these things in ourself without someone pointing a finger at us.....but.....you have to be in the group first!!

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Decisions

The one thing that is keeping us from being a truly whole person versus someone that is destitute in spirit and on the verge of complete failure, is a simple decision.  It won't be a grandious decision that will make us or break us, it is the simple decisions we have to make every day of our life.  The small thoughts that invade our thinking that appeal to our carnal desires.  Our insatiable wants to satisfy our greed, anger, lust, escapism, and negative habits.

A simple, "NO I don't want that in my life", versus "I'll start saying no tomorrow".  This is the make or break decision, the start of something better, or much worse.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices help us focus on the single small details, because every detail is on a thin black line between healing and hurt.

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Revenge

No one likes it when someone seeks to get even with us, or us with them.  God hates it even more, when the NIV says: "Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord." 

We've all done it and have all received it!  Hopefully it was out of ignorance to begin with, but God's word is very clear that a heart filled with malice makes God very angry.  It also goes on to tell us that we will be judged based on how we judge others, and if we do it with malice then that is doubly dangerous.  Ignorance can be forgiven, but evil thoughts towards someone with the malice simply to take revenge, is just taunting God.  I don't recommend that!!

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices show us ways to release control & bitterness, and come clean with our emotions.

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Remorse

Happens when we finally come to the conclusion that our actions are repulsive to even our self.  When we realize the harm and damage we have done to others through our own self centered needs.  The holes in our life that we simply could not fill with substances, manipulation, or deceit.  The cycle of events that it takes us to learn this can last for years, sometimes our whole life before our eyes are opened to the truth.

At that point we should be ecstatic that we have found the source of our negative feelings and habits, but most times we end up wallowing in self pity.  This stops our growth and the healing we owe to our self and others.  If left unaddressed we can spiral back into a life we abhor.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices give us the venue and support of like-minded individuals to help us see the path to true healing.

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Trust

There's a line between forgiveness and trust that's blurred.  It's a gray area that allows all kinds of conditions, beliefs, and skullduggery.  You can forgive someone, but can you trust them?  Forgiving means that you break any spiritual hold they had on you, but trust is something the other person must build through their actions. 

Every grievance has two conditions; opportunities for forgiveness and for trust.  If someone forgives you and you do nothing to rebuild the damaged trust then it's probable that they will have to forgive you again.  I guess that's why the Bible tells us to forgive 70 times 7 times!!

Walking away from hurtful or damaging behavior is very tough, so returning to it continues to break trust and a need to seek forgiveness.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices give us the opportunity to return after stumbling and receive understanding.  Trust comes when we stop stumbling!!

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Peace

Looking for peace can be a daunting thing, especially when it is hard to hang onto.  The true test of having a peaceful spirit is when you realize that you are able to maintain a peaceful composure in the midst of stressful situations.   It's when you can see what needs to be done in clear vision in uncontrollable situations.  If you're not professionally trained to do that, then you must find it through something called grace.

This type of peace is a God given ability to know that you may be able to help others, but God is ultimately in control.  Giving up control and maintaining a peaceful spirit is a challenge for most people, but not if you have surrendered your control over to God.

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices show us that the best way to obtain internal peace is to simply give our control over to Jesus.

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Dissolutionment

We hurt because we don't have inner peace.  We cry because we don't feel love.  We avoid the truth because we can't reveal our true self.  We cling to people and things because we don't feel whole.  We avoid because we can no longer trust.  We seek revenge because we continue to do the wrong things.

All of these anomalies are the result of fear, bitterness, & unforgiveness.  It's not unusual for people to hang onto the very hurts they have experienced and wield them as a wall in front of them in order to feel safe.  We build a shanty style world out of broken feelings & dreams, and think we have found peace.  This is the dissolutionment that we create for ourselves and then honestly think it is a God given reality!!

Self-help groups like Celebrate Recovery & Life's Healing Choices give us a clear look at real states of mind and dispel the clouds of dissolutionment, so we can truly heal.

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