Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Brad Peters
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00072A
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00:11 Welcome to Celebrating Life In Recovery!
00:13 I'm Cheri your host and today we're going to talk about 00:15 recovery, but from my husband's point of view. 00:17 I'm a little bit frightened about this because I don't 00:20 know what he is going to say. 00:21 It's going to be fun, come in and join us at the café. 00:54 You know I love the fact that my husband is here on 00:57 this particular episode, but it is a little scary because 01:00 who knows what he is going to say. 01:01 You may find out stuff about me that I'm not willing to 01:04 share yet, but I want to say for a lot of people that, 01:08 first of all I want to welcome you guys to the café. 01:11 It is really nice to have you and I know that people have 01:13 come from all over the place. 01:15 And Brad, I love having you here. 01:20 In my recovery what was really interesting the is 01:24 I have fought like crazy to deal with drug addiction, 01:27 and that was just a minor one. 01:30 But to deal with relationship things to deal with coming 01:34 out of lifestyle, you know homelessness for 10 years. 01:37 I could manipulate the best of them, and then I marry a 01:40 Boy Scout, and he was so easy. 01:42 God is telling me don't do it, I want you to learn to be 01:46 his wife, so not only in my own recovery but now I am 01:50 married and I have someone else I now need to think about. 01:55 I need to now, in an intimate way, be real enough with 02:00 someone, that we grow as a couple. 02:03 I didn't know how to be real, I didn't know to trust, 02:05 Brad is low keyed, I want some drama. 02:10 I want someone to fight with me, and he would look at me 02:14 at times, and say you know what hon, I think that is your 02:18 issue and I would think, my issue get over here. 02:22 We're fighting, so it was really interesting the first 02:26 few years of our relationship. 02:28 Watching God working with my recovery, watching God work 02:32 with Brad and his new wife, and watching God do all these 02:35 things, but dynamics are different once you're married. 02:40 In saying that I jump into a love relationship with Christ. 02:44 I'm telling you that I love God and I got into Ministry. 02:49 When Brad and I got together I wasn't in the church, 02:52 I hadn't been doing any of that, I had been hurt, 02:55 I had left the church, I met him so when I started to look 02:59 at who I am in Christ, not only who am I in my own recovery, 03:04 but with God in my life, I'm looking at Brad who said, 03:07 I'm just not interested in this stuff. 03:09 Not that he didn't believe in God on some level, but it 03:12 wasn't a part of his life, I would wanting to share that. 03:17 For the first, I would have to say, maybe 14 years of our 03:22 relationship he just wasn't interested. 03:25 So we're going to talk about some of that stuff. 03:29 How difficult that was, and had God kept telling me things 03:34 like, Cheri he will be okay, I love him and he will be 03:39 okay, he's going to stand up. 03:40 I was like when! When is he standing up because 03:44 I want him to stand up right now. 03:45 I would come back a major event, I would watch God almost 03:48 part the sea emotionally for someone. 03:50 I'd watch so many lives change in ways that were 03:53 unbelievable and I would come back and want to share that. 03:55 But if you're not into that, you just don't know. 03:58 It is like it is hard to hang in with someone while they 04:03 are talking so I would basically say when. 04:05 The funniest thing, I started to say I don't think he is 04:08 ever going to change God, I don't think 04:10 he's ever to change. 04:11 You're going to hate me for this but God really nailed me 04:15 on this one, but one time he is late and he was at work, 04:20 working late, and I thought what if he got 04:23 in a car accident? 04:24 If he got in a car accident and something happened 04:26 horribly, maybe I just could marry a Christian. 04:29 Do you know what I mean? 04:30 God said, Cheri what are you thinking? Stop! 04:33 It got to the point where I am growing in my recovery and 04:37 we are married now and dealing with each other. 04:39 We are dealing with each others stuff, each other's 04:42 spiritual growth, and I can't wait to share what God 04:45 did with that. 04:46 If you are living with a non- Christian, if you are married 04:49 to somebody that is not in the same place as you in your 04:52 recovery, in your growth. 04:54 I want you to known to hang in there, asked the Holy Spirit 04:58 to give you some patience and insight because what He does 05:01 with us is absolutely amazing. 05:04 What He does when we do hang in there and stay with 05:07 somebody through their journey. 05:08 God stays with us in our journey and we stay was someone in 05:11 their journey and it is absolutely the coolest thing. 05:14 So I'm going to cut this short, I want you to meet Brad 05:18 and I want you to share with us what happened and how 05:21 God stood this man up and eventually taught me 05:26 how to love and trust. 05:27 It was absolutely amazing so we will be right back and I'll 05:31 introduce you to my husband, it's too fun. |
Revised 2014-12-17