Welcome to Recovery, Light, and Life... I'm Chris Epson... If you are new here, you might be thinking "I really don't have an addiction. Why would I be interested in reading this?" That's a great question, and the answer is...you probably do. Everyone has something they go to when life gets too hard, when the stress and pain is too much, when they just don't feel good enough, or when they are just living unconsciously. It might only be diet Coke, romance novels, gaming, or food. Maybe it's anger. Maybe it's shopping. I believe that we are in recovery from mortality and all the challenges that come with it. Life is hard and it's intended to be. But...life is also full of joy and love and peace and progress and Grace and growth and deep relationship with God and other broken people just like us. So how do we experience more of that? If we are, in fact, all living in recovery, th...
"I did not come for the healthy, but for those who need a doctor." Jesus "How helpful it is to see sin, like addiction, as a disease, a very destructive disease , instead of merely something that was culpable, punishable, or 'mad God unhappy.' If sin indeed made God unhappy, it was because God desires nothing more than our happiness, and wills the healing of our disease ." Richard Rohr Mortality works. It's designed to be difficult and to teach us lessons we could not otherwise learn. It's designed to provide us experiences that point to, push, and pull us toward growth. And because of that, it is hard. Of course, not all the time. We've been told that we "are" that we "might have joy." So joy is the very purpose of our life, both now and in the eternities. It always had been, and that's why we're here. But some of of us are slow learners, and apparently I ...