Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Fran McKain
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR000122A
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00:01 The following program discusses sensitive issues
00:03 related to addictive behavior. 00:05 Parents are cautioned that some material 00:06 may be too candid for younger children. 00:11 Welcome to "Celebrating Life in Recovery," 00:13 I'm Cheri your host. 00:15 I'm gonna introduce you to the friend of mine Fran 00:16 who told me one time 00:18 that may be the blood of Christ in her life 00:19 is a little bit of overkill. 00:21 If you want to know what she meant by that 00:23 you got to join us on the cafe today it's pretty cool. 00:53 Welcome. 00:54 You know this season the book 00:56 that we're looking at is Celebrations. 00:58 The acronyms stands for something, 01:00 we started with choice went through the whole thing, 01:02 exercise, leisure, liquids all that kind of stuff. 01:05 And now we're on the "S" and that's social support. 01:08 And people forget about social support a lot 01:11 because we tend to in our addictions 01:15 regardless of what it is 01:16 we tend to start pulling away from people. 01:19 And oh, man, I know that you're gonna hate me on this 01:22 but we even get into things 01:23 that give us the illusion of that 01:25 we've done the social support, 01:26 we're on Facebook, we're making friends, 01:29 we're online, we're doing all that kind of stuff 01:30 but we're really not connecting with real people. 01:32 And what I found in my recovery 01:35 is Facebook will never tell me I'm an idiot. 01:38 You know, what I mean, I always look good on Facebook. 01:40 But my friends will say, you know what Cheri, 01:42 I don't know about that. 01:43 I don't think that's right or-- 01:44 or this may not be good for you 01:46 or you're still kind of thinking 01:47 addictively or whatever. 01:48 And so I get more feedback from real folks. 01:50 And I'm gonna tell you a story about a girl 01:53 that I think was so blessed 01:55 with just kind of coming out of her addiction 01:59 literally letting people into her life 02:01 and her name is Tina, she is amazing. 02:03 But she is a meth addict, she was trashed physically, 02:06 you can look at her 02:07 and she looked like a meth addict. 02:09 You know, she was-- 02:10 you know, she was a little bit agitated in her movement, 02:13 she didn't kind of-- she just kind of was a mess, 02:18 fragmented a little bit when she came into recovery, 02:20 all her teeth were rotted. 02:24 I mean they just looked terrible. 02:26 She was stuck with that 02:27 when she came into recovery 02:28 found God, love God, jumped into a church 02:32 and then she-- she came up 02:33 when we met you know and you know, 02:35 I think we met early on in recovery 02:37 but we started to work together again, 02:39 she came to a couple event, 02:40 she came to a women's retreat we had a great time. 02:43 And you know, we have a program 02:45 the Celebrating Life in Recovery program 02:47 for the churches and so she saw that 02:49 and she said, I so want to run that program for our churches. 02:52 14 weeks, incredible and she knew that she could do it, 02:56 she went to AA and NA, 02:58 she knew how to run the twelve-step group. 03:00 And so I said, yeah, you know it would be fun. 03:03 But the people in her church said 03:04 you know, wow, she-- she looks like a mess 03:07 you know, I don't know if she could run it. 03:09 And they were talking about a number of things 03:11 and their motives as they came over 03:13 and they said to her, you know, let's-- 03:16 we'd like to kind of help you out with that. 03:18 And so they actually went through the program 03:20 with her to help her out. 03:22 So they could teach her how to present. 03:26 Tina didn't need to help on how to present 03:28 but she needed friends, 03:29 she needed suport and they needed Tina. 03:32 So during the time they went through the group 03:34 this whole church just grows, 03:36 it was so absolutely amazing so they start to grow, 03:40 they start becoming friends which is the group is-- 03:43 is brilliant at doing. 03:44 And during that time they raised money 03:47 and got her teeth fixed. 03:49 I just-- it was the most incredible thing. 03:52 So social support not only do you start 03:55 to connect with real people 03:57 and you start to share with them 03:58 and you start to grow and heal from that. 04:01 You start to reflect on your stuff more honestly, 04:03 you pray for each other. 04:04 The Bible says, "Confess your sins one to another, 04:07 pray for each other so you could be healed." 04:09 All of that good stuff happens. 04:10 I get to have somebody actually touched me in a safe way 04:13 and if I'm longing for that 04:15 the healing is unbelievable off the chart. 04:17 And this group so fell in love with Tina 04:20 and it's easy, she is amazing. 04:22 So fell in love with Tina that they literally raised money 04:26 and she smiled for the first time 04:28 in a longtime without being ashamed what she looks like. 04:31 And I just loved it. 04:32 So we're gonna cover social support. 04:34 If you're in recovery know that it's a huge, huge deal. 04:38 I'm gonna bring on today, 04:41 one of my favorite people lately. 04:43 She is the creative director of our ministry, 04:46 True Step Ministries, her name is Fran. 04:48 We are totally different, Farn Mckain totally different. 04:51 She is a business degree, she is a writer, 04:55 not only a writer, she loves the language, 04:58 she loves to write, 05:00 she can look at something and see what it could be 05:04 and the colors it could be or how it could be presented 05:07 where it would actually just win your heart. 05:09 And when she does it you walk away 05:11 and you're just amazed. 05:12 But I want you to hear her story 05:13 'cause her journey and how she now 05:16 connects with people will just make you cry. 05:19 God is so good and He is so good to us. 05:22 And I just pray you'll enjoy it. 05:24 So stay tuned, come back all that good stuff. |
Revised 2015-02-05