Are you B.A.D. ????

[toad]

"BLESSED AND DELIVERED"


If so..........share your experience, strength and hope.

[toad]

By the grace of God, today, I don't have to drink or use any mind or mood altering substances. I am grateful that as share my spiritual awakening, I find myself "fully clothed and in my right mind." My life was not always this way. I am a long way from waking up on the psych ward in a padded room, with nothing on but a paper dress............toad

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If I was caught doing all the things I did wrong back in my drinking days and brought before a judge for each one of them...I might be getting out just about now. I am thankful for the right person who came into my life at the right time that helped me see what alcohol was doing to my life.
I am ever more thankful for the Lord bringing the person into my life that I would listen to that started me on the path of reading God's word and starting my relationship with the Lord.
Many are the things I did wrong and many are the times that my actions could have resulted in death... Even before I knew Him, He was there.
The Lord was watching my back even before I knew who He was.
Stopping the drinking slowed the decline of my life.
Finding the Lord "stopped" the decline of my life and started me on an upward journey. June of 1998 I bought my very first bible and from the first day of starting to read God's word, my life has not been the same.
These past 8 years have been the best 8 years of my whole life.
With the sins removed from my life, my marriage healed. We stopped the divorce with but 10 days left before it would become final and celibrated our 25th anniversary "together" the very next month.
The past 6 years have been the best 6 years of my whole marriage.
There but the grace of God.
As it states in Psalm 40 verses 2-5 ... I can not say what the Lord has done for me any better then that.
2 He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand.

3 He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the LORD.

4 Blessed is the man
who makes the LORD his trust,
who does not look to the proud,
to those who turn aside to false gods.

5 Many, O LORD my God,
are the wonders you have done.
The things you planned for us
no one can recount to you;
were I to speak and tell of them,
they would be too many to declare.

Forgiven, accepted and loved.
Thank you Jesus

[gimmeid]

Every verse of that has personal meaning....
I remember a picture on the cover of a book I read when I was a kid, a guy lounging on a lawnchair in shorts, sipping ice tea with sunglasses on, in the sunshine, in the eye of a hurricane whirling all around him. I dont remember what the book was, theology wise, but just that picture, has come back so many times in recovery.
rambling here.

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Such a picture could be my life before finding the Lord and such a picture could be my life now. Depends on how you look at it.

The Before... sitting around thinking I am enjoying life and not seeing the storm that was all around me that was ready to move in and take over.

The After...life is filled with storms and just as we find relief and calm in the eye of a storm, we find relief, protection, and calm in Jesus' hands that surround us.

[cmc]

Blessed and Delivered???
Countless times!!! So many I forget. I encourage any and all to make a written record of prayer and answers given... I wish I had!
Today I am blessed and delivered even though still in a stormy period in my life right now- and I do not see the answers yet.
I will share a victory with you. My daughter had melanoma over 15 years ago and just recently had 4 biopsies of moles that looked the same. Yesterday we got the results that they are not cancerous!!
Thank you Lord.

[toad]

I am truly blessed and delivered...........This weekend the state of Missouri says that I have to spend Friday-Sunday in a treatment program for alcohol and drugs. It is part of the requirements for getting my drivers license back after being revoked for ten years. I find it ironic that after more than eight years clean and sober, doing AA service work at the group, district, and area level, carring the message into the prison system weekly, sponsoring newcomers, co-chair of area Bridge the Gap committee, on the area Corrections committee, District Alt-DCM, and treasure of a small noon metting in my home town, that they still think I need to go to treatment. Of course I am ready to go to any length to stay sober and clean, and any legal length to get my drivers license reinstated. As I think about the next 72 hours ahead of me, I realize how blessed I am to be able to carry the message. If someone should by chance ask how I stayed clean and sober for eight years, I will have to be honest and share Jesus. I would not be sober today if it were not for the grace of a loving God that forgave me of my past. I am truly blessed and delivered...........I look forward to riding a new 2007 Harley Davidson Road King Classic .............God is so Good.........all the time!!!!!

[cmc]

Woooo----hoooooo!!
License!
New bike!
Sharing ESH while at 'treatment'

I will pray that the mandatory classes will 'go quickly' and this chapter in your life will soon be over!
On to more good things that the Lord has planned for you, toad!
Your hard work and dedication is reaping great rewards!
I'm so happy for you, brother!!
A real Thanksgiving blessing... so long awaited.
cmc
ps...
I can hear Willie Nelson...singing.... "On the road again, I just can't wait to be on the road again.... " drive safe and have fun!