Matthew 4:12-23 “Just do the next right thing.” This is what Glennon Doyle Melton tells herself as she sits on the bathroom floor. I have mentioned Glennon previously. Glennon is an author and blogger who tells the story about her addiction to food, alcohol and drugs. One day, in the midst of her struggle, she finds herself sitting on the bathroom floor with a positive pregnancy test. Her hands shaking; Glennon says of the moment: “I am empty, alone, addicted – and yet still invited.”[i] Glennon balks at the invitation, saying she doesn’t “know how to be a sober person or how to be a mother, or how to be a friend.” [ii] So what does she do? She promises herself that she will show up even if she is scared and just do the next right thing even when she is shaking. So, right there on the bathroom floor, Glennon says yes, yes to motherhood, yes to sobriety, yes to the idea that there is a God, that that God is trying to speak to her, love her, and invite her back to life. Glennon decides to believe in a God who would believe in a person like her. Glennon acts immediately. She doesn’t say, one day I will be a friend, or a sober person, or even a believer in God; she says I will practice being those things right now. Immediately. That’s the word that jumps out […]
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