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Welcome back, Welcome back. I remember singing this in the 70s. Today I say this in my recovery. Recovery means walking again. Living again. Feeling again. Welcome back all the many things I traded away. To feel again, love again to being loved again. Trusting again, being trusted again. Knowing better means making better decisions and getting better outcomes. More rewards and less consequences. Recovery means never having to live the miserable existence caused by addiction. Gone are those consequences from bad , horrible decisions. Gone is that grey,dark world of no feelings, no light,no path,no dreams, no future, no hope. Welcome back to living. Recovery is a decision to live and not die. With recovery, I choose to live again. Welcome back, Welcome back, Welcome back. Listen as Trent reveals the joys of recovery and making better decisions and living a better life.

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In life you reap what you sow. Low living or living a immoral life garners you the consequences of those wrong decisions. Being a low life steers you away from the success driven path of taking the high road. Inevitably man sins. As sinful men we all fall down. However with the merciful forgiveness we get from God we can receive the help only God can give and recover. God cannot ignore sin but he does forgive and permit recovery. Man was created to recover. Man was created to do better. With the help of God we can aspire to reach new heights. We can get up off our knees and walk even run again. With Gods mercy we can recover. In fact with Gods help recovery is not only possible but expected. Listen as Trent reveals his take on being a sinner and recovering.

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Many say hell is a place you goto when you die. Others know hell can be a state of mind that exist in the here and now. Hell can be a place you find yourself in while living. Hell can be a steep hill or a deep valley you cannot escape from. Hell can be a place you find yourself in because of your poor or bad decisions. Hell can be dark and void of any light. Hell can be a place you put yourself in. A deep dark depressed state of existence. A place with no light from God . A place that exist in your own mind. A place that exist every where you are. Where ever you go there you are. Hell can be a place of misery. A miserable existence. Hell can be literally worst than death. To escape from hell one needs a power greater than yourself. A power of super natural strength is needed to break the binds of hell . Listen as Trent walks you through his release from his hell on earth.

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Recovery is a decision to live and not die. It involves making the next right decision. Recovery remains a life seeking truth. Being truthful in all your affairs. Addiction is a disease of the lie. In addiction we begin by lying to ourselves and then we lie to everyone else. The treatment for a disease of the lie is truth. The lie is rendered inert by the truth. Recovery invokes the truth. God is truth, everything God does is truthful. The lie is opposite the truth. A liar opposes God by the very lies he tells. God cannot lie. To follow God's plan one must render himself truthful. God cannot partner with a lie. There is no recovery without God. Therefore there is no recovery without the truth. Truth is light. God exist in the light of truth. To lie is to wander in darkness. Recovery demands a lifestyle of living a truthful life. Recovery is a decision to live and not die. Listen as Trent relays his path from living a life of lying to just doing better by living a life of truth.

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Help is defined as assisting someone to overcome an obstacle or challenge. Enabling, rather, is defined as preventing someone from experiencing the consequences of an action. The difference between these two approaches can be the difference between life and premature death. Helping someone to enter the road to recovery can be life saving. Enabling someone lost in an addictive life cycle can be painful and lead to a premature death sentence. Giving to a person in active addiction can foster a dependence that can be life-threatening. In fact, with today's source of illegal drugs, a person's decision to use could very well be the last decision they ever make. Helping someone make a better decision can be disheartening if they make a preventable bad decision. However, the decisions we make all have consequences and rewards. It's the consequences that foster change. Removing or abating the consequences removes the natural progression of lives hills and valleys mandate. We all must abide by the universal mandate that states for every bad decision, there are consequences, and for every correct or right decision, we receive rewards. In this interplay exist the provisions of God. There is no recovery without God, and often we must get out of God's way so God can do what God does.

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Needing help and asking for it is two totally different things. To ask for help, you must first admit you need help. To ask for help, one must first be in a state of submission. Asking for help requires that one be willing to follow the instructions offered by the helper. To ask for help, one must admit you don't have the answers. Just as asking for directions, one admits they don't know where they are going. The first trait required to ask for help is courage. Despite fear, one forges on to do what must be done. This defines courage: accomplishing a task regardless of fear. The courage to change the things you can. Asking for help is step one. The innate quality or trait of courage is step one in beginning recovery. Recovery is a process. The trait of courage is the first inner quality that must be present, because it takes courage to ask for help. Asking for help is the first step of recovery. Listen as Trent defines courage as a preeminent first step in the step ladder of recovery.

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A miracle is defined as a supernatural act performed by God. God does not need the manifestations of the natural world to accomplish his directions. In the beginning, he said let there be light, and light came to be, yet the sun was not created until days later. Proving God does not need the natural components of nature to make real his imagination. He says be, and it becomes. God operates in the supernatural. Recovery is a miracle it exists despite the limitations of the natural world. My recovery from the death destiny I found myself embroiled in while in active addiction is a true miracle. The how and why of its mechanism go beyond my understanding. What I cannot conceive is easy for God to accomplish. His will became the way. My submission to his will and my plea for his help were the only requirements. His mercy is extraordinary, as well as his power over space and time. My life was remarkably saved by a power greater than me. A true miracle. Listen as Trent explains his understanding of the miracle that produced his recovery.

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We all should be mindful that you have not lost if you are still running. A setback is a new opportunity just to do better. Doing better requires a consistent and continual evaluation of what is possible. Better is also a decision. To learn, one must accept they don't know. There is a slogan that states 'What's understood need not be explained.' Understanding is the key. Doing better requires we know better, which means we must learn better; to learn better, we need better teachers. In recovery, the best teachers have lived experience. To have been through something indicates you know something. Right or wrong. In life, you will learn what to and what not to do. To teach something, you have been through something. This may be the very reason why you were taken through a particular situation, so that you can teach it to others. Life is informational; you will learn one way or another. Life teaches us to do better or die. You cannot keep making the same mistake over and over again. The consequences get more and more severe with each bad decision we make. Mistakes are followed by an opportunity to do better. Bumps in the road are followed by course corrections. Opportunities to get it right and recover. To bounce back. Straiten up and fly right. Setbacks are necessary to see that we need to drive better, correct ourselves. The opportunity to correct ourselves keeps us from driving off the road and dying. Listen as Trent relates his feelings on facing setbacks in recovery.

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