01/18/2026
We made a decision to turn our lives and wills over to the care of God.
Step 3 in Celebrate Recovery
It's my thinking that gets me in trouble.
I label my entire day as awful because I burned the biscuits and spilled the green beans instead of seeing the satisfaction on my husbands face as he eats the meatloaf and fresh garden broccoli.
I think I am worthless, even when I know that I was made specifically and purposefully by hands of God.
I believe that I royally messed up because my temptation to use, to even steal, pills was SO strong, but I didn't count the fact that I didn't ........a victory.
My mind was trained from a very young age that if it's not done perfectly it's not done right. Things done wrong were ALWAYS pointed out, but never the good that happened........ NEVER.
How do I change that mindset? How do I make a new neuropathway in my brain when my entire life 'trained' me to see the bad?
JESUS!!
I'm not swearing here, I really mean Jesus, I need to give my thoughts to Jesus. I need to pay attention to His intervention to fill me with joy. To see the good things that happen to me, the good things that I do, The things that I accomplish.
I see the good in everyone..........everyone but me.........
It's hard to reverse old patterns...........
I can't do this by myself. but I have Jesus, and Jesus gives me people. People who love and care for me, and tell me that I do good.
I try to wrap my heart and mind around these words 'You are perfect in my sight"...........the words that Jesus says to me.
Jesus led me to Celebrate Recovery, a place where people CELEBRATE .......recovery and walk with me while I work through the hard stuff.
Here, no one try's to fix me, that's God's job. It's at Celebrate Recovery that I'm taught the steps of real healing.
Are you ready to change your thinking? Do you need a safe place to be real?
CR meets at the Well in Pella every Thursday evening at 5:30 pm.
Here, you are always enough. And you are good.