Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Dan & Angela Clark
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00078C
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00:14 Welcome back, I loved what Dan and Angela talked about as
00:17 far as their journey. 00:18 Especially Dan from a little boy having that sense of not 00:21 belonging, not fitting in, everything crazy around him. 00:25 Getting into some crazy stuff, his drinking, his things 00:28 with his job, crazy stuff with his sexual acting out and 00:31 all of a sudden this women comes up a says, 00:33 let me help you. 00:35 When he said that everything in me said, finally someone 00:39 said can I help you. 00:41 We are talking about recovery and maintenance and all 00:44 that stuff, recovery is amazing. 00:45 When we step up and we know we are crazy, and Dan said, 00:48 I knew that, I knew the prostitutes weren't working 00:50 anymore, the sexual addiction wasn't working anymore, the 00:53 drinking didn't work anymore, so he knew he was crazy, 00:56 but the next step is to rejoin someone. 00:59 To get into community, to have somebody to give you some 01:02 reality, somebody to say, you know what? 01:03 Listen to what you are saying. 01:05 Listen to how you are saying it. 01:06 Listen, when he was talking about work, they are going to 01:09 fire me and actually they were telling him he did a good 01:12 job, listen to that. 01:13 Write it down, challenge what you think. 01:15 It seems like a lot of work, the first part of recovery 01:18 I think is a lot of work because everything 01:20 we do is twisted. 01:22 We have to have somebody say, allow God, allow me, allow 01:26 a group, allow people in recovery to help you untwist. 01:30 When someone says I want to do a 12 step group, I want to 01:34 do a 12 step group and get some healing there, the reason 01:37 you do that is not that everybody has the magic answer 01:40 to say to you, but there is a number of people in the 01:43 group that can say, wow, that's crazy. 01:46 That doesn't make sense. 01:48 Then you have to ask yourself, did that make sense? 01:50 What the group does for each other, whether you do that 01:54 in Bible studies, in church, in friendships, in your 01:57 family or whatever, you have to reconnect in community. 02:00 The only way to do recovery to where it is going to be 02:04 lasting recover is that you have to start reversing the 02:08 trend that you just had. 02:09 You have been totally isolated in your craziness and with 02:12 God and each other you are going to step back out of that 02:15 isolation and reconnect. 02:17 A lot of times what people need to do, and I think is 02:20 is really important to do, is start to connect with 02:24 people but also start to connect with God through prayer. 02:27 When I started, I just got a journal out 02:29 and I wrote, God. 02:31 I wanted to find out who God was first. 02:33 Who is He that He created the universe and He is going 02:36 to recreate in me this normal life? 02:39 I want to find out who He is, so find out who He is. 02:41 Write that kind of stuff, confess your stuff if you 02:43 need to, ask for Him to just bless you and fill you 02:46 with the Holy Spirit, but connect with God. 02:48 It is important and when you get that done, your recovery 02:51 becomes so much easier because He knows what He is doing. 02:54 He can restore us to sanity. 02:56 So until next week I want you always to remember that 02:58 God is crazy about you, me too! |
Revised 2014-12-17