The Beginnings of ReCovering Peace

ReCovering Peace Newsletter and Blog

We are just a little over a year into this journey of counseling and mentoring others. Why have we made this change in our lives when we are just a little over 50 years old? Well, we have our own story of healing. The transformation for both Scott and I was quite slow at times. Where we had the most growth was when we had someone who encouraged us and shared a bit of the path we now share with others. Progress is multiplied when walking the path of healing and restoration with someone else.

Our process of counsel and mentoring is based in slow, steady growth and healing. We’ve learned that slow miracles are still miracles. Slow growth is more steady growth and as much as we would all like to stop unhealthy patterns, be healed, and mature in a matter of weeks the truth is that can’t happen. Seeds of transformation take time to grow and if they grow too fast our “plant” may be tall but it will also be weak. When pressure comes we will be more susceptible to the temptation of returning to unhelpful and unhealthy past thinking patterns and behaviors or replacing them with something else just as unhealthy but perhaps more socially acceptable.

A few years ago we came to a point where it was time to share and walk with others who have a desire to invest in their life through recovery, healing, growth and transformation. We want to invest in the lives of others who desire healthy ways of relating with God, themselves, and others. As we have received, we want to be there for others who are just beginning or are in the midst of the process. Is it easy? No, it’s not easy but it’s always rewarding.

One of the sweetest rewards is to see a client submit to God and progress through the difficult early months of mentorship and into more spaces of joy and peace as He lights their path. As we have journeyed with others in this process we have the added blessing of experiencing further growth in ourselves. Healing and growth in community is a sweet thing.

Future newsletters will have information about what we do and teachings on emotional and spiritual recovery, healing, and restoration.

Every once in a while we will include a free resource about emotional or spiritual growth.

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The Bethany House

2 years ago I (Lisa) had the closest thing to a vision I’ve ever had. I sensed very clearly that we were to be a part of offering a short term place of safety, refuge, and healing for women and young women who find themselves in an overwhleming marriage or family situation. This project would offer room and board and also in person counseling each week on a more intensive level than our typical once a week meetings with our other clients. It was to be called The Bethany House.

The Bethany House Project got started sooner than we had anticipated. We had a 5 year plan and it seems God had another. God’s surprises are the best surprises. Our first Bethany House client arrived here in August and will be with us for just a bit longer as she works to get herself ready and established to move on. This first experience has got us hooked on this project and its vision even more. It has been such a blessing and so rewarding to be a part of assisting someone in their healing and journey with our Heavenly Father. We have been able to witness some amazing things that the Father has done in her life during her stay here. She is blossoming and living vibrantly.

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The Pay It Forward Program

Another program we started with but had to put on hold for a bit is now up and running again. That is our Pay It Forward program. The program is offered to women, young women, and some couples who are unable to afford to pay full price for counseling. Our counseling rate for women is reduced already but sometimes that is still too much for them to be able to afford. We currently have a waiting list for the Pay it Forward program. As more funds come in we are able to serve more women.

When women get healthy they are better able to stand for God’s truth and righteousness and speak life and truth to their husbands or family in love and integrity instead of exhaustion, exasperation, or anger. As they heal and grow, the possibility for healing increases for the husband or family. They are “living stones” who are a testimony of God’s faithfulness to heal their hearts as they surrender to Him and His care for them.

“As you come to Him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Yeshua Messiah” 1 Peter 2:4-5