The Care and Control of Christ
For the past four years now, I've celebrated Mother's Day as a "Dog-Mom." But in my perfectly laid out five year plan for my life, I thought I'd have some human babies by now. In the past couple years, Mother's Day has brought up some strange feelings for me. I still sometimes grieve the alternate direction my life has taken, the loss of my plans along with it, and, silly as it may be, I feel the pressure of the biological clock ticking. At the same time, I am also so relieved that I don't have little ones to care for right now and I can just focus on taking care of myself. I don't know when or if the right time for me to be a mother to human babies will come. But it has had me thinking about the third step in recovery. "We made a decision to turn our lives and our wills over to the care of God." Celebrate Recovery partners this with a Biblical principle based on the beatitude, "Happy are the meek." They phrase this thirst