TOILET PAPER AND OTHER ROADSIDE GIFTS

Written by Irvin L. Rozier


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I got out of my door and went to get inrepparttar driver's door when I glanced down in front of me. There, pretty as you please, was a brand new gold Cross ink pen! Out of allrepparttar 126533 spots my friend could have stopped, he picked (God moved on him and he didn't even know it) this spot. The Cross brand of pen reminded me ofrepparttar 126534 Cross where Jesus died for our sins.

A few months later,repparttar 126535 Lord told me to takerepparttar 126536 tractor and bush hog and go mow down by my neighbors. There was an old cemetery on their property andrepparttar 126537 road leading to it was overgrown. It was a beautiful place with hundreds of pecan trees and three or four old buildings. No one lived there. Mr. and Mrs. Fussell had passed and their children lived in other states. John, who lived in New York City, had asked me to keeprepparttar 126538 lawn ofrepparttar 126539 brick house mowed and gave me permission to go onrepparttar 126540 property at any time (to keep an eye on things).

I began to mow. I mowed aroundrepparttar 126541 old buildings and cleaned uprepparttar 126542 road torepparttar 126543 cemetery. I was thinking, "Lord, I've done used about $10 worth of gas doing this." As I maderepparttar 126544 last round, I glanced up under a nearby pecan tree and saw a green piece of paper. I stoppedrepparttar 126545 old red Ford tractor, turned offrepparttar 126546 green John Deere mower, and walked torepparttar 126547 tree. Sure enough, it was a ten dollar bill!

I could give you hundreds of more examples how God has given me "roadside" gifts and providedrepparttar 126548 things I needed. Looking back, it still amazes me when I think of how much God cares for and provides for his own.

Matthew 6.33 "But seek ye firstrepparttar 126549 Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

Copyright 2003 Irvin L. Rozier...This is a story out of my book, My Walk withrepparttar 126550 Lord, www.selahbooks.com

author of My Walk with the Lord, preacher, retired military


Post Traumatic Stress and Addiction

Written by Ted W.


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I left Tarzana as soon as I could . I tried to stay clean but could not. Everyone believed I was hopeless. I returned to CRC for another year. During that time I attended both AA and NA. For me resolving all this has taken a long time and a seemingly endless series of realizations,many painful. Even when I rememberedrepparttar abuse I was not conscious ofrepparttar 126532 feelings of hatred. On a conscious level I experienced an attraction to women like my mother.This “programming” caused me untold misery. This phenomenon of repression is not unknown to psychiatry.Although during my time in treatment programs I learned nothing of this. Alcoholics Anonymous does make this statement: There are those too with grave mental and emotional problems. Some of these do recover if they haverepparttar 126533 capacity to be honest.-Chapter 5,The Big Book. This is as close as I can find in Recovery type literature referring to problems like mine.To this day it amazes me that I could walk around for 45 years with feelings of hatred and not be conscious of them. And it took over 20 years of being off drugs forrepparttar 126534 hatred to surface. A very good spiritual counselor advised me to confront my mother with what she had done. I did confront her withrepparttar 126535 abuse and when I did I was surprised to find feelings of resentment surfacing. Although I had not yet truly forgiven my mother, she broke down into tears when confronted. “ I hope this wasn’trepparttar 126536 reason you were on drugs,” she told me. And her cruelty wasrepparttar 126537 reason. Nowrepparttar 126538 reader may be thinking , “Maybe that’s true of you, but not everybody was abused by their mother”. But my experience in recovery (28 years) is that most alcoholics or drug addicts have been traumatized.I suggest thatrepparttar 126539 thing that they all have in common is that they have been corrupted by their parents or parent substitutes to hate. And perhaps all this suggests whatrepparttar 126540 real cure for all this is. Is it not forgiveness for those who have harmed us, realizing that they too were once innocent children who were equally traumatized? It is difficult for me to explain howrepparttar 126541 mystery of forgiveness happened to me. Afterrepparttar 126542 feelings of hatred surfaced in my life, I did not know how to deal with them. I remember driving around alone in my car cursing my mother out inrepparttar 126543 hopes that somehow that would eventually relieve me ofrepparttar 126544 hate.. Another day I had a counseling session with a minister and confessed many of my sins includingrepparttar 126545 hate. Afterwards, I felt clean.The traumas no longer seemed important..Now, is it any surprise to anyone that forgiveness isrepparttar 126546 means by which childhood post-traumatic stress is cured along with allrepparttar 126547 myriad of problems (including addiction and alcoholism) which grow out of it. After all, what could be more Christian or Spiritual than that?. *The Consequences of Child Maltreatment: A Reference Guide for Health Practitioners,Health Canada



Ted W. is a long time member of Alcholics Anonymous and he write on recovery related issues at http://Christianrecovery.blogspot.com


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