Worry wears us down;  a cheerful word picks us up. If you don't know what you are doing pray. God loves to help.

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Keep your eyes open, hold tight to your convictions, give it all you've got, be resolute, and love without stopping. 

1 Corinthians 16:13-14

PRAYER: God help me not be too proud to ask for help when I need it and allow others to help me. https://tinyurl.com/vzmhepbe

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Someone said to me in recovery “You can’t rely on your story to get you through for the rest of your life.” I disagree. The reason I disagree is because our stories are always changing unless we are dead.

When it comes to admitting our lives are a mess it is easy for us to convince ourselves they are not.

In the Bible is say’s “The God-setting-things-right that we read about has become Jesus-setting-things-right for us. And not only for us, but for everyone who believes in him. For there is no difference between us and them in this. Since we’ve compiled this long and sorry record as sinners (both us and them) and proved that we are utterly incapable of living the glorious lives God wills for us, God did it for us. Out of sheer generosity he put us in right standing with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we’re in and restored us to where he always wanted us to be. And he did it by means of Jesus Christ. God sacrificed Jesus on the altar of the world to clear that world of sin. Having faith in him sets us in the clear. God decided on this course of action in full view of the public—to set the world in the clear with himself through the sacrifice of Jesus, finally taking care of the sins he had so patiently endured. This is not only clear, but it’s now—this is current history! God sets things right. He also makes it possible for us to live in his rightness.” Romans 3:22-26