Hope!!
Principal 1 in Celebrate Recovery is all about stepping out of denial and admitting that left to our own devices we are powerless to change. Living out Principal 1 is akin to realizing that we have been on a train headed the wrong way in life and now that we realize it, we have to get off the train! So, we step out of denial and admit that whatever we think that we had control over in our life was simply our attempt to stranglehold the situation and we lay it down before God. This brings us to Principle 2: Hope! In other 12 step recovery programs they may say to place your hope in a higher power. However, in CR, we believe in God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit. Our Higher Power is the Great I AM. And for us this is the ultimate Hope! A hope for change, a hope for a new heart, a hope for leaving all the brokenness behind, and a hope of being restored to God in spite of all our blunders. “For it is God who works in you to will and to act