What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do: Bad Habits and Addictions: God Will Make a Way
By Henry Cloud and John Townsend
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Henry Cloud
Dr. Henry Cloud is a clinical psychologist, pastor to pastors, and New York Times bestselling author. His 45 books, including the iconic Boundaries, have sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Throughout his storied career as a clinician, he started treatment centers, created breakthrough new models rooted in research, and has been a leading voice on issues of mental health and leadership on a global scale. Dr. Cloud lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Tori, and their two daughters, Olivia and Lucy.
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What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do - Henry Cloud
A GIFT FOR
FROM
Dr. Henry Cloud
& Dr. John Townsend
What to Do
When You Don't
Know What
to Do
God Will Make a Way
What_to_Do_Addictions_0002_003WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO:
BAD HABITS & ADDICTIONS
Copyright © 2005 by Henry Cloud and John Townsend.
Published by Integrity Publishers, a division of Integrity Media, Inc.,
5250 Virginia Way, Suite 110, Brentwood, TN 37027.
HELPING PEOPLE WORLDWIDE EXPERIENCE the MANIFEST PRESENCE of GOD.
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means— electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Published in association with Yates & Yates, LLP, Literary Agents, Orange, California.
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
Other Scripture quotations are taken from the following sources:
The Holy Bible, New Living Translation (NLT), copyright ©1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois. All rights reserved.
Cover and interior design: UDG | DesignWorks,
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ISBN 1-59145-357-7
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Contents
Prologue
PART I: EIGHT PRINCIPLES TO GUIDE YOUR
RECOVERY FROM ADDICTION
1. PRINCIPLE ONE:
Begin Your Journey with God
2. PRINCIPLE TWO:
Choose Your Traveling Companions Wisely
3.PRINCIPLE THREE:
Place High Value on Wisdom
4. PRINCIPLE FOUR:
Leave Your Baggage Behind
5. PRINCIPLE FIVE:
Own Your Faults and Weaknesses
6. PRINCIPLE SIX
Embrace Problems as Gifts
7. PRINCIPLE SEVEN:
Take Life as It Comes
8. PRINCIPLE EIGHT:
Love God with All You Are
PART II: BAD HABITS AND ADDICTIONS
PART III: BEGIN YOUR JOURNEY TODAY
Prologue
Recently on our national radio talk show we received a call from Marian, a middle-class career woman who was on the verge of R losing it all, even her husband and children. In a not-so-smart moment, she had just once
tried crack cocaine. Drug use was totally out of character for this respected Midwestern mother, but because of the power of chemical addiction, she was not able to do cocaine just once.
The drug had instantly gripped her, and she suddenly found herself to be something that she never would have imagined—an addict. She had no idea what to do or where to turn.
Helpless, hopeless, and feeling terribly guilty, Marian turned to God. She made a commitment to being good, mustered up her will to stop the drug use, and began attending church. But doing the God thing
was not working. Nothing was changing. Now believing that not even God would help her, she was more desperate than before.
Marian was not finding God; she was only finding religion. Big difference. Religion is about trying to be better and using God language
to do it. If she had found God, she would have found help and strength beyond her own efforts. Instead, she seemed like a half-dead person trying to shock herself back to life with electric paddles.
God’s way, we explained, does not depend on our willpower and commitment to transform a hopeless situation. He can raise people from the dead and create life where none exists. We said we wanted to see her in a program, surrounded by other addicts through whom God could provide his help and express his love and support. We asked Marian to abandon her effort to help herself by sheer human willpower and to