Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Holbrook Academy
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00068C
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00:14 I'm going to have Amber join me for the close.
00:16 because I know you wanted to say something else, what was it? 00:19 Well this is actually amazing because on Halloween night 00:24 between 5 or 4, I had found a bottle of pills and I took the 00:29 whole bottle and I guess that day was grandpa's payday so 00:35 he came back and he and grandma had brought back some pizza. 00:40 I was really sick and I told them I was going to get some 00:44 sleep so, Nobody knew that you had taken 00:48 the pills yet? Yeah no one knew. 00:51 I kept waking up and vomiting. 00:54 That whole day I didn't eat so they thought I was getting sick 00:59 so they forced me to eat and I vomited the whole thing up. 01:04 That night they tried looking for their pills. 01:09 Around 10 or 11 they found out that I took the whole thing. 01:15 So then the whole day to them made sense? 01:18 Yeah! The fact that you were sick 01:20 and the fact that you were in your room. Yeah! 01:23 At some point I try to force myself to throw up because 01:27 I got tired of being sick from it. 01:29 So they took me in to a small clinic and a stuffed a tube 01:37 down my throat and said that I might end up with liver damage 01:45 so they flew me to Flagstaff. 01:48 Some overdoses you end up hurting organs and that is what 01:53 you are saying that you could have had permanent damage. 01:57 Yeah because they came in late and I told them I didn't want 02:01 the tubes down my throat so if I could take charcoal? 02:05 They said no it is too late. 02:08 So I guess when I was in Flagstaff, the hospital, 02:12 and stayed until Sunday and a nurse came up to me and said, 02:19 I was lucky I didn't get liver damage. 02:21 In my head I wasn't thinking I was lucky because it was 02:24 screaming a miracle. I was actually afraid I might 02:27 get liver damage. 02:29 So you knew, even then, this was probably a miracle? 02:33 Yeah! That God more than likely stepped in? 02:37 Yeah and I guess thinking about my past trying to commit suicide 02:43 I noticed that I should stop and I know He wants me to live 02:48 to help others. Exactly I just have to give you 02:55 a kiss with that. 02:56 What's really weird is that we are running out of time. 02:59 What is really interesting is we have seen today a number of 03:03 recoveries at very early stages. 03:07 At early stages, but God is wooing us no matter 03:10 where we are at. 03:11 Even as teenagers where we are young and feel sad. 03:15 We don't even know where to go and Amber was talking about 03:19 the suicide attempt and that at one point realizing that God 03:22 wanted her to live. 03:23 She is still dealing with some of that, each of the people 03:26 that stood up are still dealing with some of those things. 03:29 Amber I want to say that you are in my prayers forever. 03:33 Just because I know that you will be helping someone else, 03:37 like you said and for everybody in recovery, God's deal is 03:41 to come in and give us the courage to heal. 03:45 Some of the damage is from the very core of who are families 03:48 are, and not because they were horrible people. 03:51 Just because they were lost in their own addictions. 03:52 From the very core people will come around us and start walking 03:56 us into recovery and then the next person will stand us up. 04:00 The next person will stand us up and eventually, like what Hep 04:03 was saying, is you see the face of God. 04:05 You realize that God Himself wants to stand you up. 04:08 Not only stand you up but He has a plan for you. 04:10 I love what was said earlier I don't even know what that 04:15 plan is, I don't fully see it myself yet, 04:17 but I know it is right on the horizon and if you are there, 04:23 it might be right on the horizon and if it is already done for 04:27 you look around because somebody needs you to say to them 04:31 can I do anything for you today, can I help you out today? 04:34 I love recovery. Thanks for joining us. 04:38 Celebrating Life in Recovery and always that God is crazy 04:41 about you and me too. |
Revised 2014-12-17