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National Recovery Month is observed every year in September to promote and find new evidence-based treatments for patients battling addiction. This month also focuses on recovery practices and the need for a strong recovery community and service providers who help people undergoing recovery. Did you know that in 2020, the federal government gave the reins to the recovery community to sponsor and manage Recovery Month? Now “Faces & Voices of Recovery” is hosting the recovery month website, managing social media, and taking care of central locations for all events.

Sadly it’s time for The Rosevine Gravelhill Benefit to say goodbye and thank you to our community, sponsors, friends and followers. With costs tripling, very few volunteers and hardships within our own families we are no longer able to continue RGB.

I have been told by my older relatives that I was still un-named a week after I was born. My aunt Margaret Woods apparently had pity on me, and finally gave me a name. My paternal grandmother was a Neal, so she hung that Sir name on me. I have wondered why my parents waited so long to give me a handle. Usually the expecting parents have a couple of names selected prior to the baby’s birth. It could have been that I was the last of three, so the new had already worn off by the time I came along as the caboose. I don’t think it is usual to name a caboose, so that may explain it.

For the first time in my life, I've been having health issues. It was nothing serious, but just enough to be aggravating.

Did you know that what you call something or name something carries power? So often we name things, declare things, or identify things without much thought. Nevertheless, the words and names we use can determine the future of that event or circumstance Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. (Prov. 18:21) Our words establish authority and power. If we name a situation as impossible, it will take on the nature of that designation. If you tell your child, “you will never amount to anything,” those words can act as seeds in the soil of the child’s heart and can come to pass. If you accept the declaration that you have terminal cancer, and you submit to that “name,” it is very likely it will be terminal. Words have power. Names have power.