AFTER WINTER COMES SPRING

Recovery is like the first day of spring after a long cold winter. Recovery produces your life in a brand new light. Recovery opens the door to your past with a new script based on what to and what not to do. Your life becomes a script on what to avoid in life's many hills and valleys. Recovery brings a spot light to shine upon your bad past decisions as things to avoid and not do. Recovery brings your life as a lesson to be taught to all who are willing to listen and learn ,. Recovery places your story in a position to save someone else's life. Recovery establishes your story as your greatest asset. Guilt and shame are erased with the revealing of your life. Recovery is the greatest show on earth and those who are in recovery are blessed to be a part of it. Listen as Trent explains how recovery is just like spring after a cold harsh winter.

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Welcome to the Recovery is a Process of Decisions podcast. This is Trent Thomas, your recovery peer support specialist. This week's episode is entitled After Winter Must Come Spring. Recovery is change, just like the seasons winter, spring, summer, and fall. Recovery has a pattern of change. Change is absolutely necessary for recovery to be successful. Sustained recovery mandates change. With change comes the reality of character ascension. In recovery, failures become successes and bad decisions become lessons of life. In recovery, a storybook of your life comes into fruition. Recovery reenvisions your past and adds substance to your journey. Recovery adds meaning to your faults. Recovery brings to life your mistakes. Your past life becomes inundated with the light of truth because no lie can last forever. All lies must give way to the reality of truth. Truth is God initiated. All truth stems from God. God is truth. Everything God does is truthful. God cannot lie. Truth is contagious. Recovery mandates research for truth. And when truth finds you, you can't help but nod your head and tap your feet. When the God in me touches the God in you, truth responds. Truth has no weight. Truth is stress free. It needs no support, no anchors, no stair steps, no landings. Truth is truth, and truth will set you free. Free from the agony of the consequences of the lie and the bad decisions made as a result of lying. Free from immorality. Free from the consequences of immorality. Truth is the bright light that warms you like the warmth of sunshine on a chilly fall morning. Truth is the warmth that envelops you, that caresses you. Truth is the flashlight that shines through the dark alleyway of life. Truth is that rapid charge to your inner battery. Truth is from God and contains the supernatural power that only God can supply. Truth radiates infinitely. Truth is repetitive. Truth is the truth and will always be the truth. Truth is absolute and never changes or withers. Truth stands the winds of time. Truth is everlasting and has no ending. Truth is God and God is truth. Recovery is your truth made real. Recovery broadcasts your true self for the world to see and witness. Recovery puts your bad past decisions on Front Street for the world to witness. Freedom from shame and guilt is how your recovery is sustained. By not hiding your past, you demonstrate to the world that you are in fact better. Better today than yesterday. How else can anyone determine you are better if they don't know what you used to do? Revealing your past frees you from the chains of your addictive past. Truth frees your mind, body, and soul. Recovery enriches and nourishes your spirituality by replacing the lies of addiction with the truth that comes from God. More God rejuvenates the power cord of spirituality that feeds the recovery engine. More God, more truth, more life, more rewards, and less consequences. God is the misery of addictive behavior. God is the sad loneliness of repetitive lies and deceptive living. Recovery issues forth a new beginning, a bright new day. Recovery is like the first day of spring after a cold, harsh winter. Recovery warms the soul of existence. Just like the cold, hard soil gives way to the warming, soft, fertile land. This warm soil is now fit for the seedlings of life to push forth with their new growth of life. The once barren land is now soft and fertile for new plant seedlings to sprout forth the stark of trees of life. Recovery is the spring after winter. Light after darkness, warmth after coldness, life after a slow and determined death. Recovery is not only possible, but yet expected. For after winter must come spring. This is Trent Thomas, and I would like to thank you for listening to another episode of Recovery is a Process of Decisions Podcast. You can now subscribe to this podcast and receive rich, deep episodes from subscribers only, as well as a private personal email account to communicate directly with me for comments and show suggestions. Also like to invite everyone to check out my ebook publication entitled Recovery: The Seven Steps to Sustain Recovery, available at Amazon.com, written for those in recovery seeking a formula to sustain recovery. As always, your inspiring comments can be left at transnetrecover.com forward slash podcast. Please feel free to follow me on Facebook and Instagram.