Serenity Recovery and Healing Center

Serenity Recovery and Healing Center Serenity House recovery residence founded by Mrs.

It is the mission of the Breakthrough Believers Non-Profit Organization to provide a post treatment sober living option for men and women serious about recovery. Our key focus is to provide and foster a living environment that complements a treatment after care program, and to enhance ones desire and ability to stay sober while transitioning into a life of recovery. Pam Duvall-Bateman, sponsored b

y Breakthrough Believers Recovery and Healing Center, 501c3 non profit organization. While, the Board will function as supervisor for organization, While Brandon and Denise function as on-site House Supervisors assisting in structured curriculum, delegation of daily chores, off-site social activities, and making sure residence follow set house rules and assistance with referrals when crisis arise to community resources. All residence must attend Friday night weekly offered Breakthrough Believers Support Group at Community Recovery International 2340 Dean Lake Rd Grand Rapids, MI 49505 this group activity includes: light supper, worship service and a smorgasbord of recovery topics (transportation is provided by New Community Church weekly). We are a PEER-Run/Peer Led housing facility: We provide an affordable, pleasant and secure soberl living environment for those serious about changing their lives and who have chosen to participate in a clean and sober living community. The sober living community is self run by appointing various roles to PEER residents empowering and promoting team leaders while residency.
•structured curriculum,

•delegation of daily chores,

•off-site social activities,

•spiritual guidance and

•house rules that is a guide for daily living to meet the unmet needs of its residence ensuring alcohol and drug free living environment. Spacious community areas – family room, kitchen, dining area and living room, computer area, and coin operated laundry.

04/29/2026
04/29/2026

Aging is not the problem.
Pretending you’re not aging is.

We spend half our lives trying to look 25. Meanwhile 25 is somewhere praying they make it to 50.

Let’s talk about mortality for a minute. Not in a spooky way. In a sober way.

Some of us have flatlined.
Some of us have been rolled into operating rooms.
Some of us have heard doctors say things that made the room go quiet.

I have.

And when you have stared at the ceiling wondering if you’ll see your kids again, wrinkles stop being offensive. They start being evidence.

Evidence that you survived.

Aging is proof of breath.
Proof of lessons.
Proof that you outlived something that tried to outlive you.

We treat gray hair like betrayal.
We treat laugh lines like they’re intruders.
But those lines are receipts.

You laughed.
You cried.
You worried.
You loved hard.
You stayed when you could’ve left.
You left when you finally got strong enough.

Mortality has a way of clarifying things.

When you know life is finite, you stop asking, “How do I look?”
And you start asking, “How do I live?”

Aging is not decline.
It is refinement.

You stop chasing rooms that tolerate you.
You start building tables that reflect you.
You stop performing youth.
You start embodying wisdom.

The point of aging is not to shrink quietly into the background.

The point is to expand into your truth.

When I survived what was supposed to take me out, I stopped fearing birthdays. I started honoring them. Every candle is not a countdown. It’s a confirmation.

You are still here.

And if you are still here, then there is still purpose attached to your pulse.

Thriving in midlife is rebellion.
It’s saying: I am not done.
It’s saying: I am not expired.
It’s saying: I am Grown. Not Gone.

Mortality should not make you anxious.
It should make you intentional.

Call the friend.
Wear the dress.
Forgive the offense.
Launch the idea.
Book the trip.
Say the thing.

Aging is the point.

Not because it keeps you alive forever.
But because it teaches you how to live before you’re not.

Now go look in the mirror and don’t search for what’s fading.

Search for what’s becoming.

04/15/2026

Fb......Support my Board member Prophetess Lisa James Buy her life story Book. We thank you in advance. Amen

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