“For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.” Philippians 2:13

I believe that acceptance is the key to maintaining sanity in your life. I have been praying the short version of the serenity prayer for a long time: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” The wisdom to know the difference directly relates to our sanity/serenity. I used to have a terrible habit of trying to change everything myself, then I went the other way and wanted God to change everything for me and neither approach worked. When I accepted the reality that there are things God expects me to do in my life, and there are things only God can do in my life, did I find serenity. Acceptance for me is to see my life as it is – the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s the starting point to find the road less travelled, the spiritual journey that seeks to find serenity with mind, heart, and body. It is God working in us for his good purpose that changes our lives if we let him! Codependent No More by Melody Beattie Boundaries. Cloud and Townsends Dana Cramer Celebrate Recovery // Crossroads Church CELEBRATE RECOVERY/CROSSROADS CHURCH UPDATES/REMINDERS:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.  Men’s Open Share Group Sign-Up / Women’s Open Share Group Sign-Up. 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