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...
"The tragedy of our day is that we are raising men who know how to 'win' but do not know how to live. What if you don't have to hold it all together by yourself? What if your strength isn't measured by what you produce or how much you can take, but by where you are anchored? Brother, the world will keep piling on. It will keep telling you to 'man up' and push through. But Christ invites you to something better: to lay your burdens down, to anchor your soul in Him, to know that even if the world leaves you on the bench, He sits beside you. You may lose the applause, the trophies, even your dreams - but you will never lose yourself in Him. Hold fast. The world needs men who know where to stand when everything else falls away. Men who can say 'I am not alone.' Let that be your story." Chris Harper "You are not separate. You never were. You never could be. You're not a drop in the ocean. you're the ...