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Today I am grateful for:
- Early Departure
- Challenging Case Work
- Phone call from Gretchen
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Today I am grateful for:
- Dominoes
- Hotdogs
- Snow Dogs
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“Everything is permissible for me”–but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me”–but I will not be mastered by anything.
- 1 Corinthians 6:12
Today I have been feeling resentment. I resent that it is “not permissible” for me to act out and comfort myself with my addictive behavior. I resent the expectations placed upon me by others.
But this verse reminds me that it is not others who are restricting my behavior. I am free to choose whether or not to act out. I am choosing not to act out despite the temptations (and excuses and justifications) to do so. So I need not resent anyone else – rather I need to recognize that the choice to be sober can be difficult and comes with the cost of self-denial.
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Deeply imbedded in the truth of anthropology and ethics is man and woman’s call to “be fruitful and multiply.” This original divine blessing corresponds with their creation in God’s image. As the prologue noted, the capacity to “pro-create” (not as a response to biological instinct but by the free choice proper to persons) enables them to participate in the creative, covenant love of God.
+ Christopher West, Theology of the Body Explained, 62
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HAIL TO THE SALT BRIGADE!
The SALT Brigade met again this morning. We are three brothers — Standing Against Lust Together — who have a weekly conference call to check-in and pursue purity together.
The meeting format is very simple:
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Open with Prayer
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Check-In using the F-I-N-S format (Feelings, Issues, Needs, Sobriety)
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Discussion of Issues that have come up
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Looking to the week ahead and Setting Up Fences if needed
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Closing in Prayer
These simple meetings are proving to be very powerful. I think there are a couple of things that really contribute to this. First, this is a Christ-centered group and that provides us with a vision for more than just sobriety — we fight for the purification of the Bride of Christ. Second, there are just three of us — there is no room to hide; we each hold each other up and ask for details. Third, we have made a commitment to being rigorously honest — even when the truth is going to be painful to share. This honesty has helped us to confess our sins and release those burdens, giving us a chance to accept the help Christ offers to stay clean while moving forward.
Today’s meeting was another powerful working of the Holy Spirit. D talked about his relapse last weekend and how the confession of that acting out on Monday had enabled him to be clean for the remainder of the week. T talked about a new commitment to daily prayer in the morning and how the confession element of that prayer has really strengthened him — he has also been clean since Monday. R talked about an area of sin he has been hiding for the past couple of weeks. He had started going to the library and using the internet to find personal adds and massages on Craig’s list. R came clean today and he has agreed to tear his library card in half and mail one part to T and one part to D.
I am so thankful for these meetings and this group of close brothers. We are three-or-more gathered together in the name of Jesus, we pray to start our meetings, and we confess to each other things we have never told anyone else. At the end of each meeting I feel a sense of strength, renewal, and joy. To be a Christian is not to be perfect — it is to be loved and forgiven!
Praise be to the Lord Jesus Christ who came to bring us forgiveness from our sins!!!
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