my highway to zion

Penny and Simon took their Saturday morning going to sign up Penny to write her learners license exam on 7 June! I'm so proud of her/them. What a team they are!! Watch out Cape Town, penny's behind the wheel soon ;-)

Today I taught our phase 2 clients about the "BUDD concept" of recovery..."building up to drink or drug". Part of this concept explains that we must have at least one person in our lives whom we trust emphatically, someone who we know will never come at us out of spite or jealousy or ill will. This person is then given permission to warn us when we are "BUDD-Ing", aka heading toward a relapse. BUDD has symptoms that must be present over the course of weeks, as we believe relapse is not an event but a process. We want our clients to understand that they cannot stand still and expect to remain clean and sober. Any rest they take must be IN CHRIST, who is the source of life and growth. Christ enables us to humbly hear when we are behaving in dangerous ways we can't recognize on our own. Oh, how humility truly is the key to so many of life's lessons! And yet so painful at times. All of this teaching left me grateful. You see, the majority of our