Recovery is a process of decisions Podcast

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textGOD rewards whom he wants. Gods imagination is immense and beyond compensation. Understanding the power and level God can rise you to is beyond  belief. However, God can do what he wants. For God all things are possible and achievable. God rewards those whom he finds favor in. His kindness is beyond measure. For those that submit to his will and whom he finds favor in. Their is no limit to the reward God can shower on you. Faith is the assured expectation of things hope for yet unseen. Submission to the will of God can readily place you on the reward stream God has in store for you. I know God hears prayers. My life is living proof that GOD can and will deliver you from the self imposed consequences we find ourselves suffering from. With mercy and forgiveness God can and will reward those he finds favor in. If he did it for me he can and will do it for those like me. Recovery is restoration of ones life as well as its supreme elevation. Listen as Trent recounts his recovery story into one of restoration and heights of elevation.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textOften we attempt to attach a body to our own bad decisions. We try to push fault on our broken childhood, or our misguided parents or care givers. Maybe our environment. A tangible bad event that occurred earlier in life. What ever happened ultimately it was our decisions that netted the bad consequences we suffered. We are free moral beings. We decided for ourselves are direction and course. Even in mandated situations where we had no choice,  but to follow a course of action, it remains our decision to stay on a given path. The decision to remain a victim or choose courage and leap into the arms of God as we understand him. There remains a valid  decision to recover and live or not and die.  Blame is for the victim, victims choose fear over courage. To choose to live requires faith and the courage to change that which you can. Change or die. Nobody is responsible for your recovery but you. Regardless of whom you blame to get to where you are . Only you can recover you. With Gods strength and immense mercy we recover. We do better, we improve. We live again. Listen as Trent proclaims who is to blame.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textGOD rewards those whom he wants. God does not owe us life, he gives us life. Recovery is a decision to live and not die. Recovery is making the next right decision. There are rewards for making right decisions. The first reward is you get to make more decisions. With recovery comes the gift of life. This gift from God rewards us with the opportunity to just do better. God ultimately rewards those whom he chooses. For this reason we should be careful what we ask for , for we just may get it. If we pray for a new car we must be prepared to deal with the burden of owning a new car. With God all things are possible and achievable. We serve a almighty God nothing is beyond his reach or power. We serve a merciful God and rich is his reward for those that choose to submit to him. In recovery things do get better. In recovery we reap the rewards of right thinking and right living. We get things back. We acquire new things. We get a new start on life. Embrace the rewards of recovery with gratitude. Being mindful and never forgetting the hell you were delivered from. Listen as Trent shares his perspective on accepting the rewards of recovery.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textTruth is contagious and since recovery is built upon truth it should be no surprise that recovery too is contagious. It infects everyone we come in contact with. Recovery is a warm inviting smile. A generosity that is truly appealing. A moment of positivity and a forward moving seeker of truth. Truth is the remedy for the disease of self deception. With that, truth wins out over the macerations of the lie. Truth frees one from the weight of despair, anxiety and indecision. Recovery abounds in positive interactions and purposeful living. Free from hopelessness and  stocked with hopefulness, a complete turn around from the downward direction we were once traveling in. Replaced with meaningful new directions filled with inner peace and serenity. Listen as Trent relates how his life has been impacted by recovery.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textRecovery is a decision to live and not die , With that is the culmination of life's  fulfillment in the act of recovery. Recovery is the gift from the God of our understanding to live again to be born again. To live life with fulfilment and purpose. Recovery is a new opportunity to just do better. Recovery is a divine intervention by a  God who performs a miracle for a undeserving being with undeserved kindness and grace. Recovery is the reward. Listen as Trent relates how his recovery is a gift of new life, a life of being born again.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textRecovery proves the existence of GOD. God use's recovery to transform lives. Thru recovery GOD removes sinful tendencies and replaces incorrect living with acting right. With recovery GOD allows the fallen to stand up and dust themselves off and walk again. With recovery GOD redefines who we are. With recovery GOD imparts a new way to think, to live, to aspire to new heights. With recovery GOD presents a new opportunity, to do better, to think better, to live again. With recovery GOD makes one born again. Recovery is contagious. Recovery inspires all who witness it's magnitude. Recovery is GOD'S gift to those that embark on it's path. Listen as Trent demonstrates that recovery is Transformational.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textRecovery is striving. Recovery is struggling up hills and thru valleys in a never ending quest just to do better. Recovery is a place where you love and are loved . Where you respect others and are respected by others. Recovery is destination where dreams become reality. Recovery is a hope filled life of enrichment and purpose. Recovery is God initiated and God sustained. Recovery is a instructed journey step by step to a place of fulfillment and serenity. Recovery is made possible by belief in a power greater than yourself. A power who can and will make a way where there is no way. Listen as Trent inspires all into his proof that recovery is possible and a destination that anyone can reach.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textImperfect is defined as a past action as not yet having met its desired progress at the time of inception. We all are imperfect free will beings. Having the right to choose our path, but often failing in making the right decision. We must all own our decisions, many times we don't and thus fall short in our delivery and ownership. These bad decisions lead to consequences. Consequences which met out misery and hardship. Recovery is a God ordain mechanism for self correction. With Gods assistance we are given a new opportunity to improve. To just do better. In fact each new waking day is Gods gift in recovery to dust ourselves off and do better. To stand up and walk again. Recovery is Gods plan for self improvement. To learn better, do better make better decisions and get more rewards and less consequences. Recovery is Gods method of allowing our imperfections to be perfected. To live again. Listen as Trent explains how recovery is about being imperfect.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textLife is hills and valleys. Life is one thing then the next. We cannot undue the mistakes of the past nor predict the events of the future. We can and must live in the here and now. Our recovery is based on the next right decision., One new correct decision at a time. We can only effect the here and now. We depend on our next breath, next heart beat, next eye blink. We need each and everyone in succession. Our recovery is defined as a decision to live and not die. We are not robots, but rather free moral creations. We live under a universal mandate that states we receive rewards for our correct decision and suffer consequences for wrong decisions. With this we live as free moral creatures, with the will to decide to live or not, to recover or not. Listen as Trent explains why his recovery is one day at a timebeat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textRecovery is gritty, recovery is substantial, recovery is mandatory, recovery is a attitude. It is a attitude of self proclamation, of self sacrifice. Recovery is a wholesale change of who you are. Recovery is a action word. Recovery is proof of the existence of a power greater than me. Recovery is me and I am recovery. Recovery states to the world I exist, I have survived, I have arrived , yet still striving. Recovery is a attitude that states I am better and getting better each new day. Recovery is me and I am recovery. Listen as Trent proclaims that recovery is a attitude.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textHope is defined as an anticipation of a desired outcome. To anticipate is to expect. Hope reflects anticipation into a belief. Belief that a power greater than oneself can and will save you from yourself. This is recovery equipped with the unrelenting imagination of all that is better, possible, achievable, and positively desired. Hope wrapped in imagination is the essence of recovery. Each new day is met with a hope-filled belief that it can and will get better. Better today than yesterday. Listen as Trent expands upon the belief that recovery hosts hope and imagination.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textA man cannot defeat a woman at being a woman; the same is true for women. A woman cannot defeat a man at being a man. There is no one better at being a woman than a woman. The same is true for men, for there is no one better at being a man than a man. A woman is, by design, interred with the ability to place feelings in all her interactions. This places her foremost in gaining understanding, which is knowledge processed with feelings. We know that wisdom is derived from applying understanding in one's life. Thus women are in a better position to attain wisdom. Wisdom is the precursor to serenity and happiness in one's life. Women process everything with feelings. This is powerful; however, feelings are not facts, and one should never put feelings in front of the facts. For this reason, she needs a partner who does not process feelings first in addressing life's hills and valleys. With this, a man and a woman are the perfect companions as each possess a absolute needed mechanism of approaching life. In each other, they find the perfect equated prossesor for dealing with life's valued equasions. Men and women are the perfected interpersonal tools by design. No, a man-woman relationship should not be man versus woman, but rather man and woman. Listen as Trent relays his trial-and-error understanding of the man and woman relationship.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textRecovery begins with a decision to live and not die. For me, this happened on the day a treatment counselor asked me if I needed help. Needing help and asking for it are two totally different things. When asking for help, one must surrender and be prepared to follow instructions. On that day, my recovery began as I admitted I did not have the solution, and I began to follow instructions. One day at a time I learned what to and what not to do. I learned that recovery was a blessing. I learned that the struggle I endured was a blessing as well. With these blessings, I sustain my recovery each and every day. Listen as Trent explains how recovery is his decision to livebeat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textRecovery means making the next right decision. Sustaining recovery involves making a practice of doing this each and every day. The practice of looking for and subscribing to making the next right decision on a minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, day-by-day basis. This life is a struggle and is not easy. Recovery requires the hard work of doing better. Making better decisions consistently and daily. Recovery requires a perspective that mandates gratitude to the God of your understanding for granting you another new day to just do better. A new opportunity to live and be better, live better, perform better. Recovery requires living life on life's terms. Being the best version of yourself. Never perfect, but always perfecting oneself into being your absolute best. Listen as Trent sparks his version of how he maintains and sustains his recovery.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textLiving life on life's terms requires admitting that life is a struggle, and no, it's not easy. Admitting that its Gods plan, not mine, that directs me and gives me hope and confidence in my future. My daily striving to help someone other than myself keeps me sober. Keeping it simple means letting God direct my steps. Realizing it's his plan, not mine. My sobriety is dependent on my belief in a power greater than me that sustains me and permits me to live. My very next breath is by his permission. Today I seek serenity and peace in my daily affairs, His plan, not mine. His script. I live each day with the full understanding that God is the author, the movie director, the ship captain, the airplane pilot, the script writer, the book author, and that I am a willing participant in his plan. There is no recovery without God. For me, my success is dependent on my full faith in the God of my understanding. God first. If I don't put God first, anything else will ultimately fail. My disease will trade away anything that I put before God. The Job, the money, the family. With the disease of addiction, nothing else matters. My God must come first. Listen as Trent tells all on his mission each and every day to just keep it simple.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textJanuary 3rd 1964 was the date I recieved life. My first request was my cry for help. Atr my beginning I cried for help from a power greater than me. My needs wqere met by a power other than me. My need for food,water to relieve myself was all met by someone other than me. My lifew was dependent upon help from someone. My constant crys for help was my first lesson of life. My life and now my recovery is the manisfestation of my needs for help from a power greater than me.  It was Gods early imagination and gift of life that established my route in life. A route I must follow each and everyday to live. It is by Gods permission that I recover, that I live. There is no recovery without God. A truth that has been present since my birth . I have always needed Gods blessing and help. My life in recovery is further proof of Gods immense power and mercy. Listen as Trent relates his very birth to his need for God in his life.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textTruth is eternal. Truth needs no support. Truth stands alone. Truth is God, and God is truth. Truth stands forever because the truth is the truth today, tomorrow, and forever. Truth needs no witnesses or testimony. Your truth is your truth. Recovery is the realization of your truth. Recovery demands doing the next truthful thing. No lie can last forever, and a lie is a forever vanishing thing. God is truth, God cannot lie. The truth is forever, and the truth will forever be the truth. Recovery requires truthfulness. Listen as Trent explains how his truth sustains his recovery.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textThe lyrics to the song like a bridge over troubled waters reminded me of the steps of recovery. It was in recovery that I found relief from the troubled waters of my life. It is in recovery that I identified the God of my understanding. A God that has laid me down and saved me from myself. It is in recovery that I find serenity and life again. Yes, recovery has been a bridge over troubled waters for me. It is within recovery that I get to live again, breathe again. Recovery has established my plan for life. A plan that exacts following the will of the God of my understanding. His will, his way. A will that cannot be denied and is absolutely achievable. Recovery is like a bridge over my troubled waters. Listen as Trent expresses his adaption of Recovery as a bridge over his troubled watersbeat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textWhere ever I go there I am. God woke me up this morning and with that, I don't need anyone  elses permission to live. I exist, I live, I am, all at the mercy and permission of the God of my understanding. With my recovery I give freely my story of  good, bad and otherwise. I am a combination of my successes and failures. I am Gods handiwork. I am a work in process. My life is the sum total of my break throughs and break downs. With the mercy and permission of the God of my understanding I go on. Life is the reward for making the next right decision. With correct decisions I get to live again and make more decisions.  My recovery has afforded me the life which I could not even imagine. God rewards those whom he wants. The more I give the more I want to give and the more God provides me to give. God is my life provider and I am forever grateful for his unbridled love. A love that has rewarded me with another chance at life. A new opportunity to just do better. Listen as Trent reveal how his recovery is him.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textRecovery exist by Gods permission. Recovery is at Gods will. His plan, his infinite imagination. The God of my understanding is the heart beat maker, the thought provoker. He is the ship captain, the airplane pilot, the script writer, the movie director. It is thru his infinite imagination that we draw a map of the path we follow. His will, his way. Thru recovery we prove the existence of God, his power, his majestry, his infinite imagination. With our recovery we prove we are not alone. With immense gratitude i am forever thankful that God saw fit to save a wretch like me. Listen as Trent relates how  his recovery is proof of the power and wisdom of God.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textIsolation is a decision to extract oneself form the community. In addiction isolation becomes a self induced  criteria for living. The result of bad decision making forces one to hide from the community due to shame and guilt. It is only with the light of recovery we can regain our moral footing and remerge ourselves back into our community. Listen as Trent reveals his travels from isolation back into the light of the community.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textThe similarities between a hero and a coward are that they are both scared to death. However, the hero decides to move forward where as the coward moves backward. Recovery requires hero like actions in that one must leave behind ones totally life and move forward based on faith. Recovery requires admitting one was wrong. Recovery demands we ask for help and then follow instructions. Recovery requires extreme courage. Recovery is a decision to live and not die. This decision is made in spite of the extreme fear of not knowing what the future holds and knowing that every decision you made in the past was wrong. Knowing that you were on the wrong path, a path headed to premature death. Recovery requires hero like actions, a decision to live and not die. Listen as Trent reveals what it means to be a hero and not a coward.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textLife is a culmination of ups and downs , a eternal circle of choices decisons consequences and rewards. We live today at the mercy of the God of our understanding. Nothing is guaranteed. It is my acceptance of these facts that propels my recovery. It is my internal gratitude that makes me wake each new day with joy and a true measure of happiness. Being content with a life of purpose and direction is a miracle in of itself. Living life with a mandate to help someone other than myself. guides my plans, my words, my thoughts, my actions. My life today revolves around my thanfkfullnes  for another day of life from the God of my understanding. A new day each day to just do better. Listen as Trent expounds on his thankfulness requirement in recovery.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textStep 1 of the 12 steps instructs us to admit we are powerless over the disease of addiction. This step is mandatory in order to recover. One must admit and thus submit to the power greater than us. God does not force his will on anyone. He must be invited in. We must willingly submit to his will. Only by this submission can we recieve the power from a all powerfull God. A God who can make a way out of no way. The power we recieve from God is without limit and can over come any obstacle. From submission of powerlessness we can emerge with the infinent power that comes from an almighty God. Listen as Trent explanis how he went from powerlessness to powerful with the help of a power greater than himself.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textMy past relationshiops were all doomed to fail due to my lack of knowdkege about women. Women are unique and special creations from God. Women have a inner make up that makes them unique and superior in many respects. Women have an inate capability to process life thru their emotional engine. Their emotional well is so deep that they can be studied there entire life and still not fully understood. There makeup deems them the counterbalance to mans analytical mindset. They exist as the perfect ying to our yang. Together we process life with balance and harmony. In recovery, I have learned to truly appreciate women for all they bring to the table. My recovery depends on me learning more and more each new day. Each day I strive to learn more and more about women and their value. This knowdledge sustains my recovery. Listen as Trent explores on his striving to know more about women and what this means to his recovery.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textLife is circular. What has been will be again. Change is essential for sustained recovery. By remebering our bad past decisions we can use them to avoid making the same mistakes again. Our past can become a shield of protection for our future decisions, if we remember and use this knowledge. Wisdom is defined as knowdledge put into practice in our lives. Wisdom keeps us living. With wisdom we make better decisions. Recovery is a decision to live and not die. Listen as Trent relates how he puts wise decisions into action in his recovery. Note how he uses his past to change his future for the better.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textMy life is a lesson of what to and what not to do. I am a imperfect man. Ladened with faults and failures. In recovery I have learned to accept all my failings and imperfections. It is my belief that the God of my understanding forgives unconditionally. He grants us life as a display of his immense mercy and unconditional compassion. His love for me is demostrated in his permitting my life each new day. My gratitude is demostrated by what I do with my life. The more I give the more God gives me to give. God';s love is unconditional and the love we show others should also be without condition or expectation of a return. In order to love someone else we must first love ourselves. I believe , I must love myself so that I can love someone other than myself. Listen as Trent relates its his accepting of his imperfections that keeps him sober each new day.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textSomeone once said, 'If you want to change the world, you have to start with the man in the mirror and make that change.'  For me, the man in the mirror is me. In recovery, I had to change myself. From the inside out. For me, recovery was truly an inside job. If I wanted to change my world, I had to begin with the man in the mirror. Recovery required that I change the man in the mirror. My recovery, my changes. The sustaining of my recovery mandates that I never stop changing for the better. Recovery demands making the next right decision. Listen as Trent dives into his need to change himself for the better.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textHealing is defined as moving into a state of balance. This balance is reached mentally,physically,emotionally and spiritually. In order to heal one must reveal. Revealing ones past bad decisions rids one of the extreme shame and guilt often carried around because of bad past decisions and suffering consequences. To reveal one gains a sense of inner peace. A moment of sanity. A requsite of inner peace and balance . Recovery requires testimony. This demostrates that recovery is possible and the immense power of God. Revealing demostrates what to and what not to do. Your truth becomes learning post of the power of recovery. Wisdom is aquired by applying the lessons we learn from our past mistakes. This is also true of the lessons we learn from someone elses mistakes. Our shared experiences teach us as well as other what to and what not to do. Your shared experiences has the ability to save some elses life. Truly, healing requires revealing. Listen as Trent exspresses his life long journey into revealing his bad past decision in order to heal himself.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textLife is short we just dont know how short. Life is a complex expression of co existing organisms. Life is a reward from the God of our understanding. Our lives are a demostration of his emense love for mankind. Our very next breath is dependent on the God of our understanding. We all benefit from the mechnisms of an incredably brillant and imaginative God. We see in color , we touch in layers, we feel love and compassion for the living and non living. We understand, we comprehend. We exist, We are. Recovery is a decision to live and not die. We exist to just do better. Our God imposes the will to achieve, to create, to help, to fashion, to shape, to exist in all of us. In our daily endeavor we live for purpose and direction. Recovery is the affirmation from God to just do better. Life is truly beautiful and worth living. Recovery enshrines this fact and incorporates in us the need to be eternally grateful for life itself. Being forever mindful that tomorrow is not guaranteed in recovery. Listen as Trent interprets his meaning on gratitude for life because tomorrow is not guaranteed in recovery.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textDesires are born in the imagination of men. Desires can be transformed into wants and wants can be spun out of control and be transcribed into needs. Needs are the highest form of request the mind is confronted with. A need is a mandatory requirement and must be completed regardless of the consequences of completing the request. Needs are life preserving requests. Needs are ranked right up there with food and water. Components of life itself. Once a desire is cycloned into a need, it will be chased until acquired. Capping desires is a mandatory step in sustaining recovery. Listen as Trent speaks on the steps he takes to cap  desire to sustain his recovery.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textTodays world is beset with lies. Each day we must choose between left or right,wrong or right. The truth is at a premieum in the times we live in. For the addict it seems its easier to lie than to tell the truth. What we know is that the liar hates the truth. We also know God is truth. Everything God does is truthful. God cannot lie. Addiction is rooted in the lie. Addicts depend on the lie to advance their addictive life style. Addicts oppose God. Infact Addiction requires the abscence of God. For this we know there is no recovery without God. God initiates and sustains recovery. Recovery demands the everyday search for the truth. Truth is at enimity with the lie and the liar. A person is known by the words he speaks. The purveyor of lies is a liar. A liar is opposed to God. In recovery we run from the liar and seek recourse in the truth that is recovery. Truth is refreshing, and consoling. Truth bears the warmth of light. Listen as Trent reveals his everyday search for the truth in his recovery.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textRecovery is a extremely personal decision. What works for me may or may not work for you. In recovery there are some commonality. In addiction the pain addicts feel is the same. The dependency of drugs and alcohol remains the same in its effects it has on the human body. The misery caused by making one wrong decision after another is felt exactly the same for every addict. The fact that it takes more and more drugs and alcohol to feel the desired effects is the same for all addicts. The shame and guilt experienced by making one bad decision after another is felt exactly the same by all addicts. What we have in common reads like a bed time story where we all know the tragic ending, before the story begins. We all experience the misalignment with life as well as the miserable degeneration as our life unravels one thread after another. What we all share is the need for a power greater than ourselves to save us and recognize there is no other answer to our miserable life saving recovery other than this power greater than ourselves. Listen as Trent proves what worked for him may or may not work for you.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textWelcome back, Welcome back. I remember singing this in the 70s. Today I say this in my recovery. Recovery means walking again. Living again. Feeling again. Welcome back all the many things I traded away. To feel again, love again to being loved again. Trusting again, being trusted again. Knowing better means making better decisions and getting better outcomes. More rewards and less consequences. Recovery means never having to live the miserable existence caused by addiction. Gone are those consequences from bad , horrible decisions. Gone is that grey,dark world of no feelings, no light,no path,no dreams, no future, no hope. Welcome back to living. Recovery is a decision to live and not die. With recovery, I choose to live again. Welcome back, Welcome back, Welcome back. Listen as Trent reveals the joys of recovery and making better decisions and living a better life.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textIn life you reap what you sow.  Low living or living a immoral life garners you the consequences of those wrong decisions. Being a low life steers you away from the success driven path of taking the high road. Inevitably man sins. As sinful men we all fall down. However with the merciful forgiveness we get from God we can receive the help only God can give and recover. God cannot ignore sin but he does forgive and permit recovery. Man was created to recover. Man was created to do better. With the help of God we can aspire to reach new heights. We can get up off our knees and walk even run again. With Gods mercy we can recover. In fact with Gods help recovery is not only possible but expected. Listen as Trent reveals his take on being a sinner and recovering.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textMany say hell is a place you goto when you die. Others know hell can be a state of mind that exist in the here and now. Hell can be a place you find yourself in while living. Hell can be a steep hill or a deep valley you cannot escape from. Hell can be a place you find yourself in because of your poor or bad decisions. Hell can be dark and void of any light. Hell can be a place you put yourself in. A deep dark depressed state of existence. A place with no light from God . A place that exist in your own mind. A place that exist every where you are. Where ever you go there you are. Hell can be a place of misery. A miserable existence. Hell can be literally worst than death. To escape from hell one needs a power greater than yourself. A power of super natural strength is needed to break the binds of hell . Listen as Trent walks you through his release from his hell on earth. beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textRecovery is a decision to live and not die. It involves making the next right decision. Recovery remains a life seeking truth. Being truthful in all your affairs. Addiction is a disease of the lie. In addiction we begin by lying to ourselves and then we lie to everyone else. The treatment for a disease of the lie is truth. The lie is rendered inert by the truth. Recovery invokes the truth. God is truth, everything God does is truthful. The lie is opposite the truth. A liar opposes God by the very lies he tells. God cannot lie. To follow God's plan one must render himself truthful. God cannot partner with a lie. There is no recovery without God. Therefore there is no recovery without the truth. Truth is light. God exist in the light of truth. To lie is to wander in darkness. Recovery demands a lifestyle of living a truthful life. Recovery is a decision to live and not die. Listen as Trent relays his path from living a life of lying to just doing better by living a life of truth.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textHelp is defined as assisting someone to overcome an obstacle or challenge. Enabling, rather, is defined as preventing someone from experiencing the consequences of an action. The difference between these two approaches can be the difference between life and premature death. Helping someone to enter the road to recovery can be life saving. Enabling someone lost in an addictive life cycle can be painful and lead to a premature death sentence. Giving to a person in active addiction can foster a dependence that can be life-threatening. In fact, with today's source of illegal drugs, a person's decision to use could very well be the last decision they ever make. Helping someone make a better decision can be disheartening if they make a preventable bad decision. However, the decisions we make all have consequences and rewards. It's the consequences that foster change. Removing or abating the consequences removes the natural progression of lives hills and valleys mandate. We all must abide by the universal mandate that states for every bad decision, there are consequences, and for every correct or right decision, we receive rewards. In this interplay exist the provisions of God. There is no recovery without God, and often we must get out of God's way so God can do what God does.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textNeeding help and asking for it is two totally different things. To ask for help, you must first admit you need help. To ask for help, one must first be in a state of submission. Asking for help requires that one be willing to follow the instructions offered by the helper. To ask for help, one must admit you don't have the answers. Just as asking for directions, one admits they don't know where they are going. The first trait required to ask for help is courage. Despite fear, one forges on to do what must be done. This defines courage: accomplishing a task regardless of fear. The courage to change the things you can. Asking for help is step one. The innate quality or trait of courage is step one in beginning recovery. Recovery is a process. The trait of courage is the first inner quality that must be present, because it takes courage to ask for help. Asking for help is the first step of recovery. Listen as Trent defines courage as a preeminent first step in the step ladder of recovery.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textA miracle is defined as a supernatural act performed by God. God does not need the manifestations of the natural world to accomplish his directions. In the beginning, he said let there be light, and light came to be, yet the sun was not created until days later. Proving God does not need the natural components of nature to make real his imagination. He says be, and it becomes. God operates in the supernatural. Recovery is a miracle it exists despite the limitations of the natural world. My recovery from the death destiny I found myself embroiled in while in active addiction is a true miracle. The how and why of its mechanism go beyond my understanding. What I cannot conceive is easy for God to accomplish. His will became the way. My submission to his will and my plea for his help were the only requirements. His mercy is extraordinary, as well as his power over space and time. My life was remarkably saved by a power greater than me. A true miracle. Listen as Trent explains his understanding of the miracle that produced his recovery.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textWe all should be mindful that you have not lost if you are still running. A setback is a new opportunity just to do better. Doing better requires a consistent and continual evaluation of what is possible. Better is also a decision. To learn, one must accept they don't know. There is a slogan that states 'What's understood need not be explained.' Understanding is the key. Doing better requires we know better, which means we must learn better; to learn better, we need better teachers. In recovery, the best teachers have lived experience. To have been through something indicates you know something. Right or wrong. In life, you will learn what to and what not to do. To teach something, you have been through something. This may be the very reason why you were taken through a particular situation, so that you can teach it to others. Life is informational; you will learn one way or another. Life teaches us to do better or die. You cannot keep making the same mistake over and over again. The consequences get more and more severe with each bad decision we make. Mistakes are followed by an opportunity to do better. Bumps in the road are followed by course corrections. Opportunities to get it right and recover. To bounce back. Straiten up and fly right. Setbacks are necessary to see that we need to drive better, correct ourselves. The opportunity to correct ourselves keeps us from driving off the road and dying. Listen as Trent relates his feelings on facing setbacks in recovery. beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textWe are finite, meaning we have an expiration date. We are born, we live and then we die. The God we serve however is infinite, meaning has no ending. God is Omnipresent, meaning everywhere all the time. God exists in infinity, never ever ending. God has no beginning and no ending. God knows what we know not. Even time bows to the will of God. God does not measure time in the same components as we do. The determination of his will is not bound by time. God operates in the super natural . His will is not dependent on the natural world and its time constraints. God is infinite, no measurement of ending time. Time is Gods gift to man, what we do with it is our return to him. Listen as Trent espouses on the meaning of time in recovery.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textHelp is defined as assisting someone with resources in attempting to do something. Help requires submission. Needing help is not the same as asking for help. Because of the selfish characteristics associated with the disease of addiction, many times an individual in need of help is not ready to be helped. Assisting an addict often can be more destructive than constructive. Because of the manipulative nature of a person in active addiction, help is often felt as a right. This, however, is untrue and in fact, help is an act of compassion and love by the person offering the help. No one is mandated to offer help. This is especially true when help is not requested sincerely in submission. The one requesting help should be searching for a path to follow in their recovery journey. The question should always be Who is doing the work. We must be mindful that we are not GOD. We can only fix ourselves. By keeping the focus on ourselves and offering our life experience as what to and what not to do, we avoid the pitfall of overstepping our boundaries and steering someone onto what could be a destructive path for them. Listen as Trent espouses on what help looks like in recovery for him.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textLife is circular. What is will be again? We all fall down and at some point need help. Asking for help when needed is a sign of intelligence. In order to help someone, we must be in a position to help. To help someone, we must first help ourselves. In order to love someone, we must first love ourselves. In order to teach, we must first learn. Today's learning becomes tomorrow's teaching. To teach something, you must first know something. Learning is mandatory in recovery. Listening is a requirement of helping. We must learn from our bad past decisions. By learning better, we can then do better. Recovery means making the next right decision. By helping someone other than ourselves, we optimize our ability to help ourselves. Listen as Trent explains how his recovery must include helping someone other than himself.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textIn AA, there is a slogan that states that to recover, one must uncover. This translates to in order to heal, one must reveal. Truth is the remedy to the lie. Addiction is a disease rooted in self-deception, a lie. To treat this disease, one must apply the remedy of truth. God is truth, everything God does is truthful, and God cannot lie. To depart from the words of God is the very definition of the lie. Revealing the truth about your bad past decisions and the ensuing consequences provides healing from the scars and cuts of tragic events, caused by those horrible past bad decisions. To reveal and expose these events with the truth of testimony provides the treatment necessary to heal the deep-rooted cuts and scars caused by addiction and the addictive lifestyle. To reveal these bad decisions is like bathing a cut in the warmth and healing effects of air and sunlight. Scar tissue is the result of the healing process on a cut to your skin. Recovery and the rewards of recovery are the results of the healing process caused by the application of revealing truth to the deep emotional cuts caused by addiction and its resulting bad decisions. Truth originates from God, and there is no recovery without God. Revealing the truth about your bad past decisions is healing on multiple levels. Listen as Trent speaks on how revealing his truth about his bad past decisions has healed him and keeps him sober.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textA father has a specific definition in the family unit. A father has a specific designation in the community. What constitutes a father is deliberate and dynamic. A father garners recognition when he carries his life out according to a specific criterion. A father has a place, generates respect, and is worthy of imitating. The greatest compliment for fatherhood is to be copied.  A father in recovery has a definitive vibe. To be a father is worthy of praise and emulation. What is mean to be a father in recovery? Listen as Trent spells out his definition of fatherhood. The lesson here is progress, not perfection. Raising to the high level of being a father requires first defining what a father in recovery is expected to be. Here in is the defining of fatherhood by Recovery peer support specialist Trent.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textMy will is my will. I can't turn it over to someone else, I can't absolve it.  We are all free will creations. Free to decide for ourselves what to and what not to do. We were created unique and special in the entire universe, both known and unknown. Our will is not instinct or mandated action, but rather is completely under our control. We possess a moral capacity that places our will under direction from our God center. Our moral compass is tightly wound within our will to live. Our will is independent and subject to our decision-making process, which includes learning to do better. With our free will, we can decide to turn our will over to God. This means living a life based on truth. This is because God is the truth. God cannot lie. Everything God does is truthful. When we decide to live a life of truth, we become worthy of trust. A will based on honesty, truth, and loyalty makes one trustworthy, worthy of trust. Listen as Trent explains his life as a willful decision maker. Living his life in honesty and truth.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textRelapse presents a decision to die and not live. With relapse, gone are the sure-fire dreams of success. Gone is the newfound cohesion between family and friends. Gone is the financial security and rewards of recovery. Gone is the journey to get better. Relapse presents an illusion of one more trip on the drink and drug carousel. Relapse instead delivers instant guilt and shame. Relapse presents death as the decision to use could very well be the very last decision one ever makes. Recovery brings forth light. Relapse delivers one back to darkness. Gone are the journeys in bright light. Gone are the future petitions for excellence. Relapse presents fumbling, dark failures. Relapse is an exit on the stage called life. Relapse is a petition for a closing. Relapse is a decision to quit, end, and even die. Listen as Trent explains his say on what relapse truly offers and in fact delivers upon/beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textIt is not my intention to prove GOD exists. I would rather declare through demonstration of how GOD has manifested his existence through the assistance and guidance he has applied to my life, how he has restored a wretch like me to sanity, how he has granted me a life of serenity. A life abundant in joy and complete with the rewards of making better decisions. A life of serenity where I know everything is already alright. GOD'S existence is demonstrated with the life-saving recovery he has instituted in my life, how he restored a homeless, jobless, loveless, drug addicted, thief, and womanizer to one of sanity, humility, honesty, and truthfulness, A financially solvent man. A man worthy of respect and love. Today I love and I am loved. Today, I live a life of serenity. There is no recovery without GOD. My life demonstrates the existence of a power greater than me. This power I call GOD.beat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textThere are no perfect parents. As such, the child outcome is as varied and radical as the means by which instruction is handed down. From parents we learn what to and what not to do. We learn as much, if not more, from mistakes as we do from success. With this in mind, we can learn just as we learn what not to do. Either way, we learn. In this, if you don't like what a parent did, then don't repeat it. The object here is to do better. Be better than your parents. Aspire to be better, do better. There is instruction on perfecting parenting..Doing better is the goalbeat outro loopSupport the showRecovery is a process of decisions.