Unmanageable: Celebrate Recovery
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5 “When the waves of death surrounded me,
The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
We admitted we were powerless that our lives had become unmanageable.
11 As a dog returns to his own vomit,
So a fool repeats his folly.
12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.
1. Help will not come from celebrate recovery until we admit OUR LIVES have become Unmanageable.
1. Help will not come from celebrate recovery until we admit OUR LIVES have become Unmanageable.
outside of the fact that there is only one higher power one of the things that makes celebrate recovery one of a kind is the fact that we deal with multiple dysfunctions.
other programs deal with a substance, or compulsion. an example would be Alonon, which deals with co-dependency or over eaters anonymous which deals with. wait for it… overeating.
that the chaos that comes from your hurt, Habit or hand up has to get the the place that we find ourselves in a place of desperation.
when recovery is going to come desperation should lead to some sort of willingness.
for all of the last 20 years I have worked with substance abuse. when you are dealing with a single habit like substance abuse the consequences are at some point external and dramatic.
2. What happens when it’s hurts and hangups?
2. What happens when it’s hurts and hangups?
The Unmanageable aspects of our lives become harder to detect.
The Unmanageable aspects of our lives become harder to detect.
When you get a DWI it is impossible to blame that on your spouse, but if you are codependent you could live your whole life not knowing that the people who have walked away did so for there own sanity.
when you are an addict self centeredness is spelled out plainly in chapter five of the AA basic text, but when you are dealing with pornography it all depends on who you work with and how well they understand the sin of your hurt, habit or hang up.
3. what is the solution?
3. what is the solution?
Rigorous honesty.
Rigorous honesty.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
23 And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people crossed over. The king himself also crossed over the Brook Kidron, and all the people crossed over toward the way of the wilderness.