Oh my goodness where do I start this afternoon? Mr Shabby has been gone almost a week now for his 12 month recovery program. If you have not read “Miracles Happen” here on the blog to catch please do so. I talk with him daily there at the recovery center a Christian based place that is beautiful and peaceful. They have God as the center of everything and that I’m so grateful for. He is in good spirits thus far, yet we have a long way to go yet. We know that each of you are praying for Mr Shabby as well as for me.
This has been such a long time coming and if I had of listened to God years ago when I was praying for Him to help Mr Shabby and his addictions and just moved out of God’s way, we might be closer than we are today. But, as it happened each time he would fall I was right there to pick him up. God didn’t have a chance with me in the way, I see that all so clearly now. It took me letting go and I mean moving on with my life without Mr Shabby in it at all for God to start the process in him. It took me moving just as God had said years ago to me in an audible voice but, I thought no that was not God. It took me years to understand that God does talk to us each of His children just in different ways as each of us are different people.
He showed me a few years ago that I had to let go of Mr Shabby for him and for my own sanity, so I did. God is so faithful I want each one of you going through hard times to know this, ok. Many of you have been to the end of the road and are back or starting on your way back so you get it. But, many feel lost and don’t know what to do. My best advice is to pray, listen and do what you know the Lord is telling you. He will not take you anywhere that He is not there to protect you, trust me He won’t.
It might seem like it but, He is there for you every step of the way. Today Mr Shabby and I are not under the same roof but, for the first time in a few years I have my Mr Shabby back. He is clean, clear-headed, thoughtful, kind and the man I feel so in love with many years ago, before the devil took him down a dark path of addiction, lied to him to keep him addicted. He has seen that, feels it and is working on a better life built on Godly principles and love. It has been my pleasure as this has taken place to help a few others get placed in Christians wellness programs to get and stay clean as well.
God is good and life is worth everything we face when we give back to others the love that God has given to us. While we can never out give God we can give just the same each day!
