01/03/2023
Celebrate Recovery Greensburg is a safe place to find community and freedom from the issues that are controlling your life.
Tonight,January 3, 2023, Sam G. is teaching Lesson 1, Denial.
Principle 1, Realize I am NOT GOD, I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable.
This lesson is a powerful one because IT BEGINS OUR WALK WITH CHRIST, our pathway to peace, our road to recovery. Until we can step out of denial about how our addictions are controlling us, we aren't even on the right road!
It begins with stepping out of denial.
I met a man a few weeks ago and welcomed him to our meeting. He was there because someone invited him. I asked him if he was in recovery and he said, "No, but I know I am in the right place." I could see this relief come over him as he squeezed out a little smile. I imagine as time goes on God will help him identify those places that qualified him to be there.
This past year, after decades of recovery from alcohol, ci******es, mental illness and resentment, the Lord put His finger on a place in my life in which i needed to step out of denial.
It was an eating disorder that I wasn't being completely authentic about. This past September, these "little slips" became more frequent until I realized I was in a full blown relapse. I called my sponsor and confessed it and stepped out of denial and asked God to help me.
I was ashamed and broken. That same night a young man handed me his 30 day coin, weeping bitter tears of remorse for his relapse. The compassion I had for this young man came out as I powerfully, effectively and earnestly prayed for this man to be free. As I prayed, I saw that the Lord was holding something WONDERFUL in His hand to give to this young man. If he would just let go of and give to God that thing he was so powerlessly trying to control, God would take it and give him the greater things he had in store for him.
I KNEW this was not just for him, but for me too! It was for everyone. What a gift!!!! I grabbed that vision and when I was done praying for him, I immediately went to God, open handed and eager to let go of what i was trying to control in order to have all He had for me.
I recently celebrated 60 days of authenticity and victory in that area.
Today is a good day to unclinch your hand and open it before the Lord, to bravely look at that thing in which you feel powerless. That's it for today, just look.
I am excited about all God is about to do in you and in me this year.
I love you,
Miss Tammy Taylor
Every Tuesday Night at 7pm
Word of Life Church
4497 PA-136
Greensburg, PA 15601
