12/04/2025
What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do by Henry Cloud & John Townsend❤️
Highlights:
❤️God’s way doesn’t depend on our willpower and commitment to transform a hopeless situation; that’s religion—trying to be better and using God’s language to do it.
❤️Even when bad things happen and we don’t know what to do about them, we can trust God to be present and working on our behalf, creating a path through the most painful wilderness.
❤️Trust is both an attitude and an action. The more you act on your faith in God, the more you will see of his way for you.
8 principles to guide your recovery from addiction.
1️⃣Begin your journey with God: he’s created us to depend on him. In God’s economy, getting to the end of yourself is the beginning of hope.
2️⃣Choose your traveling companions wisely: Surround yourself with people who are committed to supporting, encouraging, and praying for you.
3️⃣Place value on wisdom: seek structured wisdom (professionals in your area of need, self-help groups, pastors, etc.)
4️⃣Leave your baggage behind: baggage means bad stuff from the past. Agree that you have a painful past, confess to God, receive forgiveness, forgive others, and see yourself through new eyes—God’s eyes.
5️⃣Own your faults and weaknesses: take responsibility for your life, own up to your faults, and correct the problem.
6️⃣Embrace problems as gifts: welcome your problems as gifts from God to help you become a better person; ask yourself, “What can I learn from this?"
7️⃣Take life as it comes.
8️⃣Love God with all you are.The more of yourself you open up to him, the more God is able to help you through your addiction, because you are totally helpless to stop.