My Sanctuary, a Spiritual Journal: A Working Biblical Guide for the Twelve Steps for People Who Are in All Areas of Recovery

By Jewel Harper

This book can be used as a weekly support group guide with a facilitator. By going through each step weekly and sharing your experiences and thoughts that you deem valuable, you will be able to interact with others and reflect on your shared addictions and journeys. This material is easy reading for all adults. This journey will be an awakening to Gods compassion and grace.

By combining the twelve steps with scriptures, this book will help you to heal from damaged emotions and continue to work on your recovery with support and encouragement from others who are journaling along with you. This book will provide you with an opportunity to develop balance and to establish a renewed relationship with God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483674599

Jewel Harper

Jewel Harper, BA, MPA, MDiv, is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Southern California; and Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. She is a chaplain at a Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Center in Dallas Texas. Jewel continues to have a passion for those who are hurting. Most of her life she has been involved in public service which includes the following areas: hospice care, urban ministries, bereavement support groups, and youth mentoring and big brothers and sisters programs. These are just a sample of her desire and love for others and the community. She continues to speak and teach about spirituality in addiction she is also a member of The McKinney 1st Baptist Church, Delta Sigma Theta, and Association of Christian Counselors. She enjoys traveling the globe; Jewel resides in Texas and California

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MY SANCTUARY

A SPIRITUAL JOURNAL

A Working Biblical Guide

for the Twelve Steps for People

Who Are in All Areas of Recovery

Jewel Harper, MPA, MDiv

Copyright © 2013 by Jewel Harper, MPA, MDiv.

ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-4836-7458-2

                Ebook            978-1-4836-7459-9

All rights reserved. Except for brief text quoted and appropriately cited from other works, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photocopying or by electronic or mechanical means, including information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the copyright owner/author.

Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

Rev. date: 08/7/2013

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Step One

Step Two

Step Three

Step Four

Step Five

Step Six

Step Seven

Step Eight

Step Nine

Step Ten

Step Eleven

Step Twelve

Additional Information About This Book

In memory of Lena Keesee-Harper and others who have struggled with addiction, and to others who have not discovered that a sanctuary is a place that leads to spiritual recovery.

INTRODUCTION

My Sanctuary is a personal guide to understanding the twelve-step

program and how it can be integrated biblically with a Christian perspective. I believe that scripture and the twelve steps are both important healing tools and that if you apply these tools to your life, you can open yourself to God’s grace, mercy, and unconditional love. The main theme of My Sanctuary is that healing is possible. Everyone can experience a sanctuary in which wounds can heal.

Why a spiritual recovery journal? It is a record of your addiction

and those experiences and thoughts you deem valuable. Within the journal you will be able to preserve those interactions, events, and reflections that trace your personal history with God. This material is for adults who have experienced feelings of guilt and shame, low self-esteem, low self-worth, anxiety, and unworthiness. It is also for those who have been hiding their addictions and are fearful of allowing them to come out in the open.

This journal will help you replace addictive behaviors with spiritual strength.

This journey will be an awakening to God’s compassion and His grace. The twelve steps and accompanying scripture passages help you rediscover and deepen your spiritual life