Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Rhonda Burnett
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00067C
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00:13 I want to try and wrap some of this up.
00:18 I love what Rhonda was saying 00:19 that she had a balloon that she put together. 00:23 She put every single thing that she was carrying for many 00:28 years on that balloon. 00:29 It was her visual, I am going to write it out and try to 00:33 think of everything. 00:34 If you have a balloon, get a helium balloon and do this. 00:37 Every single thing from the time you were a little kid, 00:41 as a little kid I can remember carrying so much and I took 00:45 that into my early teens and into my adulthood. 00:48 Definitely into my addictions. 00:50 Write them out and then she said she held it up. 00:53 Held the rock up first, I love this, and when her hand got so 00:58 tired she could no longer hold that up, releases the balloon 01:02 and watches it rise up to heaven. 01:03 That was her indication that she did let go and let God. 01:08 So in this part of our recovery that is going to be a really 01:13 big thing is that I am so going to take every single thing 01:16 that I have been carrying, everything single thing that I 01:20 have been trying to get self-help books about, 01:22 everything that I have been trying to white-knuckle, 01:24 everything that I have been trying to hide from everyone 01:26 that I love, they all know it. 01:27 Just say to God, finally I am done. 01:31 The stuff that is in my pocket I no longer am going to carry. 01:35 The stuff that I have been trying to figure out or behave 01:38 about I am no longer going to be able to carry. 01:42 What is really hard for a lot of us is that we can change 01:45 our behaviors for some time. 01:47 Some people can change a negative behavior for years 01:50 before they realize that they still have it there. 01:53 It is growing and has mold around it. 01:58 God says, don't even keep it there, surrender it to Me. 02:01 It is not about changed behavior it is about getting to the 02:05 point where I absolutely can surrender to God all my stuff. 02:10 All my defects good and bad. 02:12 I am just going to give You everything and then I am going 02:14 to ask You, maybe for the first time, who am I? 02:18 Who are You? 02:20 When we get to that point God says not only can I come in and 02:25 show you, because you know what I found out with God? 02:29 It is He is crazy about me, He absolutely, it was like Cheri 02:34 I love you and He is saying that to you too. 02:37 I love you, I know who you are. 02:39 I know when you laugh outside of all this junk. 02:42 When you finally get a break from desperately seeking 02:46 relationships to fill that emptiness. 02:48 When you get a break from that you are Okay. 02:50 I'm thinking, can You write that down? 02:53 He says, I have. Actually in the Bible He has. 02:58 We are okay, but He says when you surrender all that to Me 03:01 I will literally will come in and show you who you are. 03:03 I will free you of your addictions, I will free you of 03:06 that stuff, but more than that I will actually bless you with 03:10 who you are. You will laugh out loud. 03:12 You will be able to be a blessing to all those around you 03:16 When you walk into the room you can start to see when other 03:20 people are in trouble and help them. 03:22 I think it is absolutely amazing. |
Revised 2014-12-17