Today is a NEW day and, as I wrote yesterday, I am to bring a NEW song. I don’t know exactly how that’s going to play itself out today for me. I don’t believe it necessarily has to represent a literal new song, so much as a newness of life, attitude, heart, passion, direction, or whatever else you can think of.
As I was writing yesterday, I kept thinking to myself, you know what, this doesn’t merely apply to worship, but to recovery as well. I mean think about it…what are we saying, reciting, declaring when we speak the Prayer for Serenity?
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage the change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time…
Living ONE DAY AT A TIME, enjoying ONE MOMENT AT A TIME.
I’m not living in the past. I’m not looking ahead. I’m here. I’m present. I’m taking it step by step. I’m working my program. I’m going through the process of change. I’m engaging my recovery, my hurts, my habits, my hang-ups. I’m anticipating what God will have for me TODAY, RIGHT NOW!
For those who have ventured through a Step Study or even completed a full year of Celebrate Recovery, you’ve probably noticed that as soon as you find freedom in one area, as soon as you overcome one hang-up, God reveals ANOTHER! Don’t you just love that?
I do.
It keeps things fresh. It reminds me that I’m a work in progress. It reminds me that he’s changing me; he’s not done with me yet. In fact, and here’s the crazy part, the program doesn’t change, I do. For the past 3 years I’ve experienced the same exact lessons, answered the same exact questions, read the same exact Scripture…yet it’s NEW each and every time.
The program isn’t changing, I am.
Each time I walk through the doors of Celebrate Recovery I’m anticipating NEW. The new song I bring each Friday night is a song of HOPE, the hope that he CAN and WILL set me free from my hurts, habits, and hang-ups. It’s a song of GRACE, knowing that he WANTS to help me change in spite of my tendency to be a little rebellious (or maybe a LOT rebellious, but who’s tracking?). It’s a song of WILLINGNESS, a willingness to accept the changes he wants to make in me and allow him to do it…and the willingness to do my part (working my program).
So this week, when you step foot into Celebrate Recovery, what’s the new song you’ll bring?
As I was writing yesterday, I kept thinking to myself, you know what, this doesn’t merely apply to worship, but to recovery as well. I mean think about it…what are we saying, reciting, declaring when we speak the Prayer for Serenity?
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage the change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time…
Living ONE DAY AT A TIME, enjoying ONE MOMENT AT A TIME.
I’m not living in the past. I’m not looking ahead. I’m here. I’m present. I’m taking it step by step. I’m working my program. I’m going through the process of change. I’m engaging my recovery, my hurts, my habits, my hang-ups. I’m anticipating what God will have for me TODAY, RIGHT NOW!
For those who have ventured through a Step Study or even completed a full year of Celebrate Recovery, you’ve probably noticed that as soon as you find freedom in one area, as soon as you overcome one hang-up, God reveals ANOTHER! Don’t you just love that?
I do.
It keeps things fresh. It reminds me that I’m a work in progress. It reminds me that he’s changing me; he’s not done with me yet. In fact, and here’s the crazy part, the program doesn’t change, I do. For the past 3 years I’ve experienced the same exact lessons, answered the same exact questions, read the same exact Scripture…yet it’s NEW each and every time.
The program isn’t changing, I am.
Each time I walk through the doors of Celebrate Recovery I’m anticipating NEW. The new song I bring each Friday night is a song of HOPE, the hope that he CAN and WILL set me free from my hurts, habits, and hang-ups. It’s a song of GRACE, knowing that he WANTS to help me change in spite of my tendency to be a little rebellious (or maybe a LOT rebellious, but who’s tracking?). It’s a song of WILLINGNESS, a willingness to accept the changes he wants to make in me and allow him to do it…and the willingness to do my part (working my program).
So this week, when you step foot into Celebrate Recovery, what’s the new song you’ll bring?
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