TRANSFORMED, from broken to beautiful
I did it 🙂 I’ve written a blog post every single day for 31 days straight! Honestly, it’s been somewhat stressful because the writing process does not come quickly for me and it’s kept me from getting to a lot of other pressing projects.
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If anyone knew the real me they could never love me. Click To TweetThoughts like these can keep us from being authentic. Especially as Christ followers, trying to live holy like Jesus! Believing this way caused me to put on my happy mask every day for years, all while trying to hide the pain I carried on the inside.
Then entered those special people who saw something in me that I couldn't see in myself and chose to invest in my life. Click To Tweet
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I want more than anything to share my JOY with you. Click To Tweet
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We were attending church on a pretty regular basis for over a year when word came that Pastor John and Nancy were being called to plant a church in Frisco, Texas. It was hard to lose them because we loved them so much, but Nathan and Rose, a couple we’d bonded with at the church camp out (when they invited us into their motorhome and served us coffee with at least 6 choices of creamer!), became the new leaders of the church. 🙂
It wasn’t long before Pastor Nathan gave Kelly the opportunity to share his recovery story in church services, which was great! Except for . . .
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When Kelly’s three months in treatment was coming to an end I wasn’t ready. I didn’t know how to behave. I told myself that I’d need to keep everything on an even keel for him so he wouldn’t get stressed out and start using drugs or alcohol again. I was a co-dependent on steroids!
He did well though. He followed every rule they gave him in treatment. 90 meetings in 90 days. Sometimes he’d even go to two meetings a day. He poured himself into the recovery process because he knew that he didn’t have another recovery in him.
He knew that were he to go out and use again it would be his death. Click To Tweet…
