The word Denial a lot of times gets forgotten after moving beyond the first step. I find that even after 17 years of sobriety there are many events that occur in our daily lives which can bring us back to denial - even to wondering about our sobriety. A death of a loved one, a relationship gone wrong, personal health/finances, etc. How we handle these situations every day is determined on whether we truly surrendered, or understood denial in the first place. As we look forward to next week's lesson on Powerless, how are we doing on the first lesson?
Romans 7:21-25 says, "So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord!"
HATS OFF TO EVERYONE WHO HAD ANYTHING TO DO W/THE IDEA OF THIS BLOG!!! You are all fabulous! I was reading about denial and talking with my phenomenal sponsor who asked really a simple question but hit me between the eyes - What do I do w/feelings when they come up? Do I not deal with them or just push them under the rug and say no big deal? Well, yes as a matter of fact I do. So no wonder all I do is spin around. I need to deal with issues when they arise and confront them so I can move on and learn from them. Thanks alot. I think I'll try that from now on! It's so great when I come to the meetings and see so many familiar faces who help encourage and support me! God bless you all.
ReplyDeleteThis coming Monday 9-7-09 is Labor Day. I think it would be fun if our Celebrate Recovery Group would get together @ West Valley Christian Church Gym for Guys and Girls Volleyball. If we all get to the Gym @ 3:00pm we could play indoors prior to the BBQ and before all the Basketballers get there.
ReplyDeleteI want to thank celebrate recovery for my life today!
ReplyDeleteRudyard Kipling Wrote The Poem "IF"
ReplyDeleteI heard again recently on a Christian Radio Station and since it is my favorite poem I am posting it as a comment.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!