Welcome back, I loved what
Dan and Angela talked about as
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far as their journey.
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Especially Dan from a little
boy having that sense of not
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belonging, not fitting in,
everything crazy around him.
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Getting into some crazy
stuff, his drinking, his things
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with his job, crazy stuff
with his sexual acting out and
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all of a sudden this
women comes up a says,
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let me help you.
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When he said that everything
in me said, finally someone
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said can I help you.
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We are talking about
recovery and maintenance and all
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that stuff, recovery is amazing.
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When we step up and we
know we are crazy, and Dan said,
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I knew that, I knew the
prostitutes weren't working
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anymore, the sexual addiction
wasn't working anymore, the
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drinking didn't work anymore,
so he knew he was crazy,
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but the next step
is to rejoin someone.
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To get into community, to
have somebody to give you some
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reality, somebody
to say, you know what?
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Listen to what you are saying.
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Listen to how you are saying it.
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Listen, when he was talking
about work, they are going to
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fire me and actually they
were telling him he did a good
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job, listen to that.
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Write it down,
challenge what you think.
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It seems like a lot of
work, the first part of recovery
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I think is a lot of
work because everything
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we do is twisted.
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We have to have somebody
say, allow God, allow me, allow
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a group, allow people in
recovery to help you untwist.
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When someone says I want to
do a 12 step group, I want to
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do a 12 step group and get
some healing there, the reason
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you do that is not that
everybody has the magic answer
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to say to you, but there
is a number of people in the
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group that can
say, wow, that's crazy.
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That doesn't make sense.
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Then you have to ask
yourself, did that make sense?
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What the group does for
each other, whether you do that
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in Bible studies, in
church, in friendships, in your
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family or whatever, you
have to reconnect in community.
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The only way to do recovery
to where it is going to be
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lasting recover is that
you have to start reversing the
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trend that you just had.
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You have been totally isolated
in your craziness and with
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God and each other you are
going to step back out of that
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isolation and reconnect.
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A lot of times what people
need to do, and I think is
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is really important to
do, is start to connect with
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people but also start to
connect with God through prayer.
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When I started, I
just got a journal out
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and I wrote, God.
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I wanted to find
out who God was first.
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Who is He that He created
the universe and He is going
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to recreate in
me this normal life?
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I want to find out who He
is, so find out who He is.
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Write that kind of
stuff, confess your stuff if you
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need to, ask for Him to
just bless you and fill you
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with the Holy
Spirit, but connect with God.
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It is important and when
you get that done, your recovery
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becomes so much easier because
He knows what He is doing.
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He can restore us to sanity.
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So until next week I want
you always to remember that
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God is crazy about you, me too!
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