I’m sober today
9 Nov
I hope it sticks. But I know that I’ll probably fall off the wagon soon. That’s the way of addiction, right? But with time, prayer and accountability possibly the falls off the wagon grow farther apart. I hope.
I confess to an addiction. Probably not the first few vices that pop in your head. Alcohol. Drugs. Whipped Cream cans. (although there was a time… But I digress. 
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My addiction is far more suttle. And far more socially acceptable.
I’m addicted to comfort.
I like being comfortable.
I like my warm clothes. I love my bed. My pillow and I are pretty tight. I’m so addicted to these creature comforts that I take for granted the blessing they are.
Yesterday it would have been a foreign thought that my bed and pillow are blessings. Yet today I look at them entirely different. I spent the morning serving breakfast to a group of people that don’t have such simple comfort. It’s sobering.
Lord, place people in my life to draw me out and keep me out of my inward-focused world! Break this addiction in me.
scary prayer
Gina, you amaze me.
Thoughtful…
Oh how we LOVE to be comfortable…
“God, don’t ask me to step out and talk to that person about Christ. Don’t ask me to pray with that person, we are not friends. God don’t ask me to give away my old coat I never wear, I never know when I might need it again.” Aren’t these the kinds of things we think. “It’s not my problem, don’t ask me to step out…I just don’t want to feel out of place, or hey someone else will do it.”
I so look forward to the block party down town and pray that it would quite quickly kick us off our comfortable clouds, and bring us a little closer to reality. our lives are but a vapor and our goals a mist in the distance, but the difference God can make IN and THROUGH us…ETERNAL!
Why do we care so much about things that don’t matter and so little for people who matter so much?
thanks for the thoughts!
Ouch. Sister, I’m right there with you. Maybe we need to talk about some more accountability between us
Cindy, maybe we do need to turn up the heat a little.
Jes, I cannot wait for the block party. word was spreading quickly at the rescue mission this morning. we’ll see a big turn out. more than that, we’ll take part in major life-change.
Becky, you’re right. scary prayer. but i guess our prayers should scare us a little. if not, we’re probably leaning too much on ourselves.
My prayer for our campus this week was for God to Break us from being comfortable. The homeless mission really helped!
Scott,
Thanks for the comment. There was so much buzz Sunday after the mission. Let’s pray what was seen embeds in the minds of our church and our lives are as transformed as any recipient from that mission.