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His Promises The Lord will guide you continually, giving you water when you are dry.  Isaiah 58:11 NLT  Life has a pointed way of revealing just how powerless we really are. Circumstances and situations pop up regularly that can make me feel like things are slipping through my hands. I don’t know what to do in those situations. Before recovery I often ran to ways that I thought under my own strength would fill me up and make me feel stable – funny thing is that those coping mechanisms and protections never fully protected or dealt with the pain and frustration I was feeling. Recovery has taught me a different way – to rely on a higher power greater than myself (Jesus) to restore me to sanity, and to trust that He is in control, watching over me, and has the power to help me recover. Leaning on that truth and learning to trust it in my deepest heart allows me to approach those “the world is closing in” moments differently.   Isaiah 58:11 echos the pr...

  So, if you recall from last week’s post, a few days prior to landing in the hospital a few weeks ago, Stephanie and I were enjoying God’s amazing underground creation of Linville Caverns, near Linville Falls, North Carolina. It was incredible! So many colors, formations, textures, blind trout, and a “bottomless” lake, which without realization we stood directly over on a narrow walkway, until the tour guide informed us of our position! It was all quite remarkable! The coolest experience, though, was when we went as far into the caverns as was passable. Beyond that, the ceiling quickly reduced to approximately 18” and stayed that way for ½ mile before opening up into another series of caverns. Fun fact! According to the tour guide, in the late 1800’s Thomas Edison traversed that ½ mile of 18” tall crawl space, through several inches of water, in search of platinum necessary for the invention of the light bulb! He didn’t find any, but he did sign the wall of the cavern. Another...