Thought Shot (24-Hour Innergy): 31 Day Devotional

By Jonathon Archuletta

Are you tired of burning bridges? Weary of digging ditches just to bunker down in them as life passes you by? How is your relationship with your family? Do you have a family? Are you homeless? Are you an addict? Are you a felon? Are you seeking an answer from your ashes? Do they respond? Or are they as chaff in the wind? Are you as chaff in the wind? Blown every which way that is convenient and least resistant to your worn, broken, battered, tired, lonely, cold, whimpering spirit? If so, then just know that I was not just one of these abovementioned but all and many more unspoken. The key elements in this book will restore you. But, friend, know this: nobody can want it for you. Nobody can work it for you. But I am daily alongside you through this devotional. I roll up my sleeves and get right in there with you, and back to back we'll fight you out your despair and into a newfound hope turned future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098052690

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DAY 1

TRUST YOUR TRUTH

Trust the process was the punchline phrase that I cleaved to in the beginning upon committing my life to a road of recovery and restoration. The reason that trusting a process worked for me is solely because it wouldn’t involve trusting a person. I’d been marred by considerable trauma, as many are today that cycle through prisons, homelessness, and addiction. As a direct result of that trauma, it sounds like entrapment to the mind of the broken and battered person.

The title of Day 1 is called Trust Your Truth because it is exactly what anybody like us must commit to in the beginning and throughout this whole process. If you are ready to be 100 percent honest with yourself, then, this devotional is for you. If you’re not ready to be fully honest, then, you are also not ready to traverse this road of recovery. Which doesn’t mean that there is no hope for you but does simply mean that it may not be time yet.

This doesn’t mean that you must confess to everyone your entire past. It doesn’t mean that you must say anything to anyone that you’re not ready to say. It doesn’t mean that you are expected to be perfectly honest in order to succeed through this process of recovery.

It does mean that you will have to be honest if you relapse. It does mean that you will have to give every second of every day to your recovery.

Though, giving every waking moment to something you’ve ran from your whole life may sound exhausting. When you are 100 percent honest, you will find it is not nearly as exhausting as it has been your whole life, running from yourself. I know personally. So TRUST YOUR TRUTH and TIME WILL TELL.

PERSONAL REFLECTIONS

DAY 2

ASK YOURSELF FOR PERMISSION

It is vitally important to understand the purpose of this booklet is not to inspire you as much as it is to instruct you. As important as inspiration is in life, in recovery, it is more essential to face reality head on. Not to fill our heads with things that work for healthy and wholesome people but with what works for us, broken and battered ones, with hopes to find healing and peace and sanity.

As with all of the people put in place to govern, guide, and support you throughout your journey of recovery, it is most important to ask yourself for permission, no matter what. Every decision we make in recovery from medications, therapy, routines, habits, friendship, housing, jobs, family affairs, your future, etc. will impact you the most. Only you must live with the decisions you have made in your life.

This doesn’t mean that you are not to consider what your therapist, counselor, social worker, PO, etc. are saying. It doesn’t mean that you are not going to have to make many decisions that favor your support networks’ best advice. As in this road of recovery, everything we do are things we’ve never done before; it will require others wisdom over your own.

It does mean that you’re the central focus of and in the center of a circle of people whose very role is to provide you every opportunity