Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Dahlia Brown, Daphne Brown
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00059C
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00:11 Welcome Back!
00:12 You know some of these things are so heavy. 00:15 You know recovery is tough. 00:17 I don't think we break or have disease, or all of a sudden you 00:22 can see so much on the outside of us. 00:23 Like car accidents, cancer and those things. 00:27 God is still faithful in all this. 00:29 I just interviewed a guy named Craig DeMartino. 00:33 He is a mountain climber and an incredible man of God. 00:36 We are doing the interview and he said, you know one time I am 00:40 on this mountain and I am climbing 130 feet. 00:43 He thinks his friend has him on a line that is hooked up. 00:47 He decides he is going to go down where his friend is. 00:51 130 feet down, so he leans off a cliff and is going to fall 00:55 and his friend of course is going to catch him, 00:57 and lower him down slowly. 00:58 His friend thought, that he wanted to take him off 01:01 that line and so he had totally unhooked him. 01:04 So when he leaned down he fell, hit a tree, the tree 01:07 stood him straight up, and he landed on his feet. 01:10 130 feet down. 01:11 Broke his feet first, his ankles went into his shins, 01:15 his shins went into his knees, his knees went into his hips, 01:18 hips went into his ribs, his ribs went into his lungs. 01:20 Broke his back and his neck. 01:22 So everything broke all the way up before he fell over. 01:27 His Rehab was forever. 01:30 Forever, and lost his leg, did some other things. 01:35 He said during that time, he went through all the stages 01:39 that Dahlia went through. 01:41 Sometimes you think why did I even survive that? 01:44 It took them 5 hours to get him off the mountain. 01:46 They didn't think he would survive any of this. 01:48 He was in a comma forever. 01:51 He said during his Rehab, He really understood who he was, 01:57 who God was, he loves life. 02:00 He loves his family. 02:01 People have surrounded him with all this stuff. 02:03 He sees God for the first time in a different way and has a 02:07 ministry working with people with chronic pain and he has 02:10 chronic pain, he is not out of all that. 02:12 So I want to say that if you are out there and dealing 02:15 with these pretty heavy issues, please hold on to God anyway. 02:20 If you have cancer, if you have fibromyalgia, if you have all 02:24 these things that you think I wish I didn't have them, 02:26 Well, Hello! I so agree with you. 02:29 I wish I didn't have them and do not know why I have them. 02:32 But I am learning that I trust God anyway. 02:35 I really do trust God anyway, that is not lip service. 02:39 So acceptance in any kind of recovery is a huge deal. 02:42 I look at who I am, what I have, what is actually on my plate. 02:47 I somehow get to a place where I say Okay, alright. 02:50 So now I am going to let go and let God take it. 02:54 Take it, teach me how to survive this. 02:56 Teach me how to live with this, teach me what do. 02:59 How do I do one step in front of the other? 03:02 How do I learn to do my life anyway? 03:04 God says, you know what? 03:06 I am going to bless you. 03:07 I am going to bless you in ways you won't even dream of. 03:10 And when I do, please go and bless someone else. 03:14 I am thinking are you kidding me? 03:15 So not only do you want me to get it, is that when I get it, 03:20 show someone else. 03:21 You know what? I am a poster child for the 03:24 Leukemia Society now. 03:25 That cracks me up, I don't know how that happened. 03:27 But how does people deal with chronic illness or things that 03:33 you look at and I am learning and then I teach someone 03:36 else and that is our gig. 03:37 God will bless us in that. 03:39 So I want to say thank you for joining us. 03:41 Please, please email us if you need to say anything about 03:44 this program or your own life because we would love 03:46 to hear from you. 03:47 But until then, take everything you deal with to God and let 03:50 Him bless you, bless someone else and always remember 03:54 that God is crazy about you, me too! |
Revised 2014-12-17