Clarity

Today, God, help me know I am being guided into what’s good about life, especially when I feel confused and without direction. Help me trust enough to wait until my mind and vision are clear and consistent. Help me know that clarity will come.

2019 Has Arrived

Family JOTL – Grateful for how our fellowship endured 2018 and even flourished despite many challenges and hardships.  A foundational truth revealed during our 12-step journey is that we each must learn how to die to ourselves if we are to truly live in Christ. Enjoy Chris Sullivan’s Step-1 truth teaching recorded on January 28,…

Merry Christmas: (from DonZ)

Happy CHRISTmas! Hopefully you are having success balancing the reason for the season (Jesus!) and the commercialized event that CHRISTmas has become. Just another reminder that Joy of the Lord (JOTL) will not be meeting CHRISTmas Eve which is tonight, 12/24/18, nor on New Year’s Eve which of course is 12/31/18. We will fire back…

Giving Thanks for Truth Shared:

Maintaining a fellowship of recovering pastors allows us to share the fruit of our individual ministries among other CleanAndSoberInChrist.com recovery leaders.  To wit: On 12 Nov 2018, at 08:21, Don Zonic <jotlrecovery@gmail.com> wrote: So Ricky Wade sent his recording from a teaching Amy recently did at Higher Power.  I got blessed this AM listening to…

Happy Easter from JOTL!

     Happy Easter! I had a couple of inquiries as to where the blog was about ‘Celebrate a Murder Friday’ more commonly known to America as Good Friday, but I really like the Hispanic name of Holy Friday a bit more. As I prayed about putting some thoughts together for the family on the…