Celebrate Recovery Pooler

Hi everyone. Celebrate Recovery Pooler will no longer be meeting. There is a new meeting on Mondays at 7pm at Westside Christian Church about two miles from where we've been meeting. We'll be attending that CR from here forward and would love to see you there! Contact information for the new group:

Leader:
John Smallshaw @ (912) 226-8829

Meets at:
Westside Christian Church
1106 US-80
Bloomingdale, GA 31302

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September is National Recovery Month

The semicolon is a symbol of recovery and hope in mental health, especially in su***de awareness and prevention, because it indicates that the sentence is not finished, though there is a pause... and though there is a pause, keep going, keep living, your story isn't over.

I love this symbol, but I am fine with the period also.

As a writer, periods don't mean to me a full stop. Yes, a sentence has ended. But I am the one writing the story. I can write a next sentence. And a next. And more paragraphs and chapters. And if I close the book on som**hing, I can start a new book. I can keep writing my story and stories.

Either way, your life is your sentence, your sentences, your story.

If you or someone you know is thinking about su***de, contact the national su***de hotline...
- Call 988
- Text 988
- Chat - https://988lifeline.org/chat/
- Official Website - 988lifeline.org

- Mark David Anthony

Some of the wisdom and benefits of community and authentic relationships.

Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety (Proverbs 11:14)

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice (Proverbs 12:15)

Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment (Proverbs 18:1)

The most important thing I do isn't what I accomplish,
but how I love.
[Craig Groeschel]

I’m posting another before and after collage.

That’s my Fulton County (Rice Street) mugshot in the upper left.

👇🏼

I’m 6’2” and weigh 245 now. In that pic I weighed 165. My intravenous m**h use had taken a toll. What’s different?

Everything!

I’ve been busy doing the title of a new Tenth Avenue North song…

Letting Go for Dear Life!

But it was another song I listened to recently that made me think again of my before and after.

Second Chances by Rend Collective.

My future hangs on this
You make preciousness from dust
Please don't stop creating me
Your blood offers the chance
To rewind to innocence
Reborn, perfect as a child

When sin and ugliness
Collide with redemption's kiss
Beauty awakens by romance
Always inside this mess
I have found forgiveness
Mercy, infinite as You

Countless second chances
We've been given at the cross
Fragments of brokenness
Salvaged by the art of grace
You craft life from our mistakes
Black skies of my regrets
Outshone by this kindness
New life dawns over my soul

Oh, Your cross, it changes everything
There my world begins again with You
Oh, Your cross, it's where my hope restarts
A second chance is Heaven's heart
Countless second chances
We've been given at the cross

This all my hope. And what He has done for me, He will do for you.

It seems more and more that we are a nation, a world even, of fear and anxiety. These almost 12 minutes contain some of the best advice and help I have heard for dealing with fear.

Biblical Advice for Living WITHOUT FEAR with Pastor Rick Warren Fear can hold you back, but faith can set you free. In this video, Pastor Rick Warren shares how to overcome fear by surrendering to God daily, ignoring nega...

New batch of newcomer chips…

“The central basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.”

Tim Keller