Week 2 - Habits

You’re trying…but you keep reverting back to old habits. You don’t even understand what you’re doing anymore. Ever feel like this? Then you start tying your identity to all those moments of failure. Yeah, I’ve been there. The Apostle Paul captured this when he said: “I don’t know what I’m doing, because I don’t do what I want to do. Instead, I do the thing that I hate…I’m a miserable human being. Who will deliver me from this dead corpse?” [Romans 7:15 & 24]. Don’t give up! You are not your failures. Get back to basics…and start small.

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Dr. Waltrina DeFrantz-Dufor, Director of the Collegiate Recovery Program in the Health & Counseling Center at the University of Denver, will join me as our Guest Storyteller. Waltrina took her first drink at the age of nine—she was off to the races with her addiction to drugs & alcohol. She’s been sober for 20 years, but even in sobriety life gets lifey. Her husband died from a massive heart attack in 2008, and her 20 year old son died of a heroin overdose in 2017. It’s the small habits that have kept her—and continue to keep her—connected and sober when life is most challenging. In her words: “Today I’m not afraid of alcohol & drugs, I’m afraid of losing my connection with God. If that happens, no doubt I could be taken back to my old ways.”