Helping Up // Addiction, Recovery, And Grace

Julio knows how it feels to be successful in the world’s eyes, but had to learn to be still and serve in order to succeed in his recovery. Read more at helpingupmission.org/stories/julios --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/helpingup/message

Richard is no longer wandering the streets. Instead, he is spending this Christmas with family! Read more at helpingupmission.org/stories/rickp --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/helpingup/message

“I just tried to talk honestly about myself and how God is helping me. I also shared that I don’t really know what God has for me, but am waiting patiently. Afterwards, one guy said to me, ‘God is already doing something in you and through you.’ That helped!” Read more at helpingupmission.org/stories/dougc --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/helpingup/message

Yasin Abdul Adi was born in Detroit, MI but, while still young, his family moved to Knoxville, TN – the places he considers his “hometown” today. Yasin says he always felt a God-connection and tried many things to deepen it – including 25 years practicing Islam. Here’s his story. Read more at helpingupmission.org/stories/yasin --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/helpingup/message

“Settling in, I wasn’t scared. I didn’t know what I was getting myself into but I was ready to change, whatever it took – I knew it was better than jail and it was time to get honest with myself.  I felt peace and could walk into a place and not be judged. I could lay my head down and fall asleep.” Read more at helpingupmission.org/stories/jamesw --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/helpingup/message

“I don’t have a problem being vulnerable to the Father because I know he is not going to hurt me and has my best interests; my problem is being vulnerable with people… I resist it; I don’t want you to know that I have any vulnerability in me. Sometimes there’s a time to be angry, but I just don’t want to be angry anymore.” Watch AJ and others in our video Defined: Shame and Pathway to Hope Read more at helpingupmission.org/stories/aj --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/helpingup/message

“Be yourself, be honest. Have faith… because you have to lean on something beyond yourself. If you put yourself first, and you think it’s all about you, then you’re already lost. Stay clean, stay drug-free. I know it’s cliché to say, but it doesn’t lead anywhere but jail or death. God didn’t give you the blessing of life to waste it and to get trashed every day. You weren’t put on this earth for that. I’m happy to wake up every day, open my eyes and breathe.” Read more at helpingupmission.org/stories/mark-ramiro --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/helpingup/message

“Things have changed – I don’t react to things the way I would in the past. In the past when traumatic things happened, I would have used. Not today.” Read more at helpingupmission.org/stories/matt --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/helpingup/message

Hear how Jack went from being desperate, conflicted, and stuck in addiction to happy, content, and spiritually free. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/helpingup/message