It was a great day today getting to do the multimedia for the first Advanced Leadership Training Seminar of the year for Celebrate Recovery at Bell Shoals Baptist Church in Brandon, FL. It was great to have the opportunity to meet some of the people that until the seminar I had only known through testimony videos and names on the covers of Step Guides and on the pages of web sites. I was especially blessed to meet Tina Davis, the national training coach, who shares a similar testimony of sexual addiction, and Johnny Baker, the son of CR founder John Baker, who co-led the ALT portion of the day.

The day was valuable for me in that it gave me some good guidance in conducting the open share group that I am responsible for at CR on Monday nights, as well as helping keep the main focus on the newcomer—those who are there for the first time exploring the program, helping them feel like they are in a safe place where they are free to share their hurts, habits, and hang-ups.

I left the “high” of the ALT and returned home in the early evening to find the latest reminder of the reality that is ahead. Apparently a process server had visited the house while I was gone and left his card in the door.  I returned the call to let them know when I would be home.  There’s no sense in dragging out the inevitable.