Today’s journey is getting a late start at least from the writing of it is concerned.  Our pastor was having a meeting with the men of our church at 7:00 am this morning.  I got up early enough to have my devotions before leaving but not enough time to write the blog at that point.  Our pastor’s sermon yesterday was tied to this morning’s meeting with the men.  He was pointing out our need to stand in the gap for our nation’s moral health and to take a stand for God when God is prompting us to do this.  Our prayer time this morning was setting the stage for getting this started.

After the prayer time was done I met with one of our Celebrate Recovery men who is wanting to get his testimony written.  I am his sponsor and have been nudging him to do this.  He finally had said he was ready to start on this part of his own journey.  It was a couple hours well spent.  Somehow, getting the start of something so emotionally charged is very difficult.  It is also hard to take what we say and put it on paper.  Writing this is much more permanent that simply saying it.  However, the beauty of writing our story enables us to use God’s work in our lives to help someone else find the strength to trust God to do the same with their own mess.  Celebrate Recovery says God takes our mess and makes it a message.  The message is best told through the written testimony.  I love this about our Celebrate Recovery connection.

Learning to trust our God with the details of our life like telling our personal story and also knowing how to trust Him with our country and world woes are huge steps.  Both of these steps are big ones and need clarity on how to take them.  I want to become much stronger in each arena.  God’s journey for me has me doing both right now.