A God Nudge
Another inspirational story from one of our volunteers.
This morning I was facilitating a spirituality group at a drug/alcohol treatment center. Yesterday a man who was a participant in the recovery program died in his room at the center. Many of the men in the group I was facilitating knew him well. A new man came to the group today, who I believe was an alumni of the treatment program, who I’ll call Paul. He had felt an inner nudge from God to come to the group today, after he finished working a 3rd shift at the Metrodome. Paul has been sober for 4 years, but he came back today to give back to others.
Another man in the group said he’d had a nagging feeling that he was supposed to ask Paul to be his sponsor (mentor) for his recovery program, but he hadn’t seen Paul in a while. So when Paul showed up this morning and sat next to him, he saw that as an answer to prayer.
Paul spoke in the group about the intimacy of his relationship with God, and about the joy he found in it. He emphasized that expressing our emotions and thoughts to God is key to cultivating the relationship, just as we would with a friend.
Paul’s presence spoke deeply to me, and many of the men there, who were grieving about the man who died yesterday.
