Recovery Retreats

The Twelve Steps and the Promises of The AA Big Book offer us a new freedom and new happiness that will help us not to regret the past but to be able to obtain serenity and peace. They help us to realize that no matter how far down the scale we have gone, we can realize that our experience can help others and that our own feelings of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We are able to lose interest in selfish things and rid ourselves of self-seeking. They help us change our attitudes and outlook on life and drive out fears that imprison us. They help us to realize that God is willing to do for us what we could not do for ourselves. We were addicted; we were hooked. We must remember this about our distress: We didn’t cause it; we can’t control it; and we can’t cure it! But God can create a miracle in us!

A Twelve-Step Retreat will aid our recovery program. The first three steps unhook us (these are the give up steps); the next three cleanse and reconcile us with our-selves (the clean-up steps); the next three restore and reconcile us with others (the make-up steps); and the last three maintain our freedom and health (the keep-up steps). Even though our compulsion won’t be cured, it will be arrested into a state of remission; we can soon become well, even weller than well. (from Letting God by A. Philip Parham)

A White House Retreat recovery retreat provides people the opportunity to experience a re-awakening to save our lives and souls from atrophy here and now. A retreat provides an opportunity for a discovery of my own uniqueness in God’s plan. A retreat can be a time of creation and keep me from turning inward but moving in a way that I empower both myself and others to shuck off the rat race mentality and make our world a better place. A retreat helps me to inhabit myself in serenity. This almost always requires spending some time alone in prayer. A person at home with himself (herself) can never be dispossessed or deserted. A retreat nurtures all of the steps and helps us to keep the program!

We are only here once and Jesus Christ did not come so that we would settle for merely living in the sense of surviving. He came that we may have life and have it more abundantly. A White House Retreat is life giving to you and to your family!