{"id":2454,"date":"2010-07-18T11:21:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T17:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2010-07-18T11:21:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T17:21:02","slug":"today-the-gathering-it%e2%80%99s-time-to-face-up-to-the-new-normal-that-you-or-someone-else-has-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-it%e2%80%99s-time-to-face-up-to-the-new-normal-that-you-or-someone-else-has-created\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering: It\u2019s time to Face Up to the New Normal That You or Someone Else Has Created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i355.photobucket.com\/albums\/r472\/barbaramcgee\/flyers\/12steps_icon-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"258\" \/>Today @ <a href=\"http:\/\/g3church.com\">The Gathering<\/a> we continued with Step #9 in our series, <strong>\u201c12 Steps Up.\u201d<\/strong> It\u2019s the step in AA that may be the hardest. And that is, to be willing to face up to the stupid things we\u2019ve done, the people we\u2019ve hurt, and try to make amends.<\/p>\n<p>All of us have awakened with a case of \u201cthe stupids.\u201d\u00a0 You know what I\u2019m talking about, a period of time when you do things or say things that you just can\u2019t imagine that you have ever said or done.\u00a0 But many times these lapses into times of weakness have caused consequences all out of proportion to the moment.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about what you can do after dumb.\u00a0 You can flee, you can fight, you can ignore it, and you can deny it.\u00a0 But there is someplace in your life that if you\u2019re going to grow up and be a healthy, emotional, intellectual, spiritual person <strong>you\u2019re going to have to face up to the dumb things that you\u2019ve done.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So we used the word <strong>FACE<\/strong> as an acronym for the four steps in facing up and making amends.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We\u2019re going to have to <em><strong>fix<\/strong><\/em> what we can.<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019re going to <em><strong>accept<\/strong><\/em> what we can\u2019t.<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019re going to <em><strong>concentrate<\/strong><\/em> on the changes we can make in our own life.<\/li>\n<li>We <em><strong>expect<\/strong><\/em> that God will redeem what we\u2019ve wrecked.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you or someone you know is living with the consequences of bad decisions, this talk would be just the ticket to get you unstuck, and take you to a better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today @ The Gathering we continued with Step #9 in our series, \u201c12 Steps Up.\u201d It\u2019s the step in AA that may be the hardest. And that is, to be willing to face up to the stupid things we\u2019ve done, the people we\u2019ve hurt, and try to make amends. All of us have awakened with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-it%e2%80%99s-time-to-face-up-to-the-new-normal-that-you-or-someone-else-has-created\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today @ The Gathering: It\u2019s time to Face Up to the New Normal That You or Someone Else Has Created&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}