Thursday, November 13, 2014

No Ordinary Success Story

Celebrate Recovery is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

Upon entering Celebrate Recovery, I listen to others talk about the reality of their addiction: loneliness, terror, and pain. As I listened further, I soon heard a description of a very different kind – the reality of sobriety. It is a reality of freedom and happiness, of purpose and direction, and of serenity and peace with God, ourselves and others. By attending meetings I am reintroduced to that reality, over and over. I see it in the eyes a hearing in the voices of those around me. By working the program, I find the direction and strength with which to make it mine. The joy of Celebrate Recovery is that this new reality is available to me.


No comments: