Going Ahead

Today at Mat Talbot Center there was a comencement for memebers of the centers drug/alcohol recovery program. Three men were honored for completing phases of the program. It's good to see men and women make stridws in thier recovery. Many of the articapents come right from the streets, from homelessness. Matt Talbot is just one program in the city that works with patients with an outpatient method. For some it can be hard because there is so much temptation on the streets between the center and thier housing. Also, many of the services they for other issues they are dealing are in the downtown area as well. Sometimes it's a lot to wade through when going from one end of town to the other. That's where strong faith in God can pull one through. And even thought it only takes a small amount of faith to access the power of God, it can be hard to work up to even the smallest bit of faith when you've lived one failure after another. When one can accept that the fight is God's and his/hers, we can stand aside and allow the Lord to move as He can, in victory. And there are so many who have come through the Matt Talbot programs and have stayed clean and sober for years, walking in victroy to victory! Matt Talbot has been doing this for 25 years. Amen!

The Lord has been allowing people from my past to show up in my life lately. Some are people who had gone through drug/alcohol treatment in one of my programs. Some are still clean and sober and some are still struggling finding it harder to get out of the grip of addiction, the grip of sin. That's the real illness, sin. Is it really the dope, the drink that hooks one, or is it fleeting joy of sinning? So many continue to do the same behaviors lying to themselves that things will be different, all the time knowing what's coming. Failure, pain and disapointment. The people that are still clean and sober are a real blessing, reassuring me that recovery in Christ is still the number one method to bliss. There are some who are musicians and ready to get some project done. Be listening for that, I promise it'll be a treat.

It's late now for a young man like myself ( 11:30 pm ) so I'll be going to pray and then to bed.

Night, night all,

Freddy