It was a very emotional weekend last Sunday with the ground-breaking ceremony for a new building we are constructing at our church. This new “Hope Center” building will house our food pantry where we feed needy people in our community. Also, it will house our recovery meetings and other mental health meetings and support groups.
I am touched and proud that our church embraces those in need and the souls willing to be transformed and used by God.
In my many years of sobriety (7,641 days to be exact!), I have seen so many lives change and transform as they get sober and stay sober, and then help others to do the same. It is truly magic happening before our eyes.
This dedication ceremony and ground-breaking is such a metaphor for recovery. As we go about the demolition of our lives in our addiction, we have no idea who we affect and take down with us in our destructive behaviors that play out. There is huge fall-out. Damage we need to clean up when we finally hit our bottoms and begin to reconstruct our lives in a new way.
Our new beginnings are a way of making amends to those we have harmed along our path. We get to start over. We begin to own the destruction and begin the clean up. We get to be redeemed. Be supported by others on our new journey. We get to be part of others’ new beginnings also, as we discover that in our recovery, we can be there for them. Supporting them as others supported us. Others who watched our destruction, also get to watch our reconstruction.
Joy all around.
I am so grateful to a my church who embraces recovery and supports our groups we host there. What a privilege to be a part in that.
Come join us in your recovery journey.
We can help build new lives together—
Your own. And, those you love.
"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Romans 12:2
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