“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Romans 12:2 NIV
I was reading Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation last week as he talked about liminal space. He explains liminal space as being betwixt and between, having left one room or stage of life but not yet entered the next. It’s where spiritual transformation can occur, giving up the old normal for something new and usually unknown. The world seems to be in a liminal space right now, a pandemic of the known and even bigger unknown is upon all of us and a new normal is emerging.
I started thinking about liminal space and looking at it through the lens of recovery. That betwixt and between time of admitting our hurts, habits, and hang-ups were driving us toward recovery and not yet knowing what recovery would bring. I knew a little of what drove me into addiction
and relational dysfunction, and while I so desperately wanted to leave that behind, I had some sort of pathological comfort with it because that is what I knew. Through Celebrate Recovery 12 step work, I came to a place where I had to leave
the
past behind, let it go, and accept a new norm that Jesus was transforming me from the inside out.
The liminal space of recovery is not an easy place to be. It is an emotional rollercoaster of highs and lows where fear, doubt, confusion, anger, trust and faith issues abound. Fear of the unknown was a major issue for me and the lure of going back to dysfunctional thinking and acting out would rear its ugly head over and over again. But the lifelong learning/experiencing of what it means to live by faith produces a joyful transformation; knowing that God loves me, forgives me, heals me, and wants the best for me is more powerful than the demons that once controlled me. My mind is being renewed!
The key for me today in that liminal space is to accept it. Don’t fight it. Relax in it. The unknown needn’t be a frightful experience, but rather an enlightened one.
Hardly anything turns out the way you expected it to, and you’re frequently ready to write life off as too paradoxical and too difficult to endure. Then some indescribable light fights its way through the impenetrable dark. -Paula D’Arcy
Dana Cramer
Celebrate Recovery // Crossroads Church
CELEBRATE RECOVERY/CROSSROADS CHURCH UPDATES/REMINDERS:
- If anyone is in need for somebody to reach out to, please text your name to 970-645-6109 and we will have somebody from the team reach out to you.
- If you are in need of prayer, please send your prayer requests to [email protected] and we will forward those to our Celebrate Recovery Prayer Team. The Crossroads Church Prayer Team would also love to pray for you, so when you send your email, please note if you are okay with us forwarding your prayer request to the church.
- Fridays at 6:30pm, we are hosting “CR Friday Night Live.” To subscribe to our YouTube channel, please click on the following link and select the subscribe button. CR YouTube Channel Link. There will be a song or two of worship and then a short recovery based dialogue between a couple of CR members. This will be streamed on YouTube.
- On Fridays we will be hosting on-line open share group meetings at 7:30pm. There will be one mixed issues group for men and one mixed issues group for women. These meetings will take place using the Zoom App. In order to participate you will need a tablet, smart-phone or computer with camera. In order to ensure confidentiality of these meetings everyone who participates will need to find a private room to set up, have their camera on, so others can see that there is no one else in the room and they will also need to wear a pair of headphones so that they are the only ones that can hear. This is a free app and you can download it on google play, apple app store or through your web-browser on your computer. For help on how to join a Zoom meeting please click on the the following link, which will take you to their support web-site Zoom Set-Up Help
