Celebrate Recovery

I revisited CR tonight along with my husband.  It was good to be back.  Refreshing and soothing to my soul.  This time around I was not going for myself.  I went to support a sister in Christ and my husband went to support the husband, a brother in Christ and the struggles they're going through.  I guess God knew how much I needed to go and be reminded of the steps and the Serenity prayer.  To be amongst other people with hurts, habits, or hangups and worship a God who is big enough in corporate worship together unified with celebrating and struggling with the same milestones and set backs.  God used it to remind me that He is working in my family and that He is about to do great things.  Whether the turn out is good or bad based on the choices that people will have the freedom to choose, He will still be in control and I must trust Him; as His child.  The same way that I call upon my children to obey me by trusting me even when they do not fully understand because they're just not at an age or place to comprehend what I can.  So, I am leaning on my Lord, trusting in Him, and He has given me peace and hope.  I'm still tired and exhausted from only getting three hours of sleep last night.  But I have a new perspective for His mercies are new every morning; great is His faithfulness!  Oh, and thank you my dear friend and fellow homeschooling mama who reminded me that true forgiveness is forgiving people not only for their sins but for the consequences of those sins; even as it pours over and spills into so many lives around them and the damage it causes.  I'm called to forgive.