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novena, day five

by Dan Walsh, Grace of God Recovery House resident God our father, please help guide our eyes in your direction. Many have asked exactly where it is that our help comes from. Our answer to that question is and should be from you, God, who made all things possible. You alone hold the power and resilience to break these chains of addiction as well to break down the bars of imprisonment.  God, release those who suffer from the bondage of…

NOVENA, day four

by Kyle Mannion (resident) Dear God,  May you shine your light upon us, and help guide us to achieve sobriety for today May you help lift the mental obsession of addiction from our minds May you help guide us away from feelings of jealousy, anger, envy, fear, pride and resentment, and may you help us make decisions that are not self-seeking. May you help guide us into showing gratitude and humbleness, May you help guide us towards courage, integrity, willingness,…

novena, day three

by John Prohira (staff member)  God, please direct my thinking today so that it be divorced of self-pity, dishonesty, self-will, self-seeking and fear. God inspire my thinking, decisions, and intuitions. Help me to relax and take it easy. Free me from doubt and indecision. Guide me through this day and show me my next step. God give me what I need to take care of any problems. I ask all these things that I may be of maximum service to you…

NOVENA, day two

By Frank Luebbe, Grace of God Recovery House staff member 1.  Probably my favorite & most on-point Prayers of Recovery – 3rd Step PrayerGod, I offer myself to thee, to build with me and to do with me as thou wilt.Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do thy will.Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help,Of thy power, thy love, and thy way of life. May I do…

NOVENA

Grace of God Recovery House (GOGRH) fundraising month is during August. As we come to the end of the month, the GOGRH winds down in reflection and prayer, practicing the ancient tradition of Novena: devotional praying in Christianity, consisting of public prayers repeated for nine successive days. In the next nine days you will see prayers written and provided by staff that they use for their own recoveries and people affected from addictions. Some are common and regularly used prayers…

Advice for Living

In Mt 7 Jesus calls us to do inner work related to judgments, discernging what gives life and how we move through the world.

Heard Into Healing

We are invited as Easter people to remember that God meets us "on the way" of life and that we must hear others into healing.

And So We Wait

Holy Saturday holds up all that is unfinished, unresolved and unsettled in life - acknowledging all that we wait upon for consolation.

Don’t Look Away

We are invited today to gaze upon the cross and all that is broken and hurting in his world and to remember that Jesus' love stopped at nothing