Celebrate Recovery Main Street

10/28/2025

05/20/2025

CR Main Street is canceled tonight 5.20.25 because of storms. Everybody be safe. GOD BLESS

05/20/2025

Often, we find ourselves in a season of "Waiting on the Lord."

Waiting to be "lifted up", like an eagle waits for wind, to rise up to a higher vantage point.

I will invite you to look at it like this....

You are walking along a path, but you can only a few feet behind you (which is your past), and a few feet ahead of you which is your future, if you decide to walk that way. You can't really see much on the side of the path, and you have no idea what is beyond the few feet you see in front of you. Follow me so far?

Around the bend, you suddenly come to a MONSTROUS hill. At the same time, an earth quake utterly destroys the path behind you. You have a choice... Stay where you are, with little hope of rescue, to climb that hill. You don't want to climb that hill, out of fear. Fear of exhaustion, fear of losing your footing, or maybe fear you just won't make it. OR... Fear that you will.

So you climb that long, difficult, hard part of your path of life. And you make it to the top. And you have a clear view!

You look behind you and you see your past. Which it literally is, because you walked it. You look down the path, and now you see your future, if you decide to walk it. You can see dangers on the side of your path now a little clearer, because you have a better view. Not all of the dangers, because some are well hidden. But enough that you know you can make it past.

And looking down the path, it eventually fades into the fog, or the next point of the unknown. But you also know the dangers you avoided getting to that point will make you wiser, and more prepared for the unknown.

Making sense?

This is what our recovery journey is like...

If you are stuck at the bottom of the hill, you have a choice. You can eventually stay at the bottom until you die, which is the easy thing. Or you can do the hard work, take that hill, and see what God has for you on the other side of that hill.

Just saying...

Isaiah 40:31 ESV But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

05/09/2025

For all of our recovery friends suffering from a soul wound. Trust me, there is hope in Jesus.

05/08/2025

"You thrill me Lord, with all you have done for me!" Psalm 91:4

An "Attitude of Gratitude" is essential for all of us.

What has Jesus thrilled YOU with?

Yeah, I know you might be thinking this is the same old positive thinking stuff. Or, I don't know what you have been through. Or the season you are in. I get that. I hear you, and I understand you.

But the very fact that you are able to read this post with your eyes, are you not grateful for your eyesight? How about your phone? Are you not grateful you are able to afford not only a phone, but a phone plan?

And you are taking the time to read this, are you not? Shouldn't you be grateful that you do have this time to read a post? And cruise your social media accounts?

As we work through Step 4 which is our inventory, we start to discover the people, places and things we should be grateful about.

And, if we can't at least be grateful for what we have and for what God has done for us, can't we at least be grateful for the things God didn't allow to happen?

Step 4: We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD. (Lamentations 3:40)