{"id":4816,"date":"2010-11-15T00:19:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T06:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/blog\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2010-11-15T00:39:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T06:39:47","slug":"birthday-week-at-dgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=4816","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Birthday Week at DGM!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Friday, November 19 is my birthday.<\/p>\n<p>But that date has another significance in my life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On my 19th birthday seven years ago, while attending a nice Christian concert, I confessed to a friend about my pornography addiction for the very first time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is not ironic.<\/p>\n<p>I believe it is divine that for the rest of my life the day of my birth will\u00a0commemorate\u00a0the day I chose to surrender my addiction.\u00a0A rebirth to into a life that would finally (truly) be lived in freedom in community and Christ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I always dedicate my birthday posts to a particular cause and ask the reader to donate to it in honor of my big day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Well, this year is no different.\u00a0But instead of simply dedicating my 26th birthday . . . I am dedicating my sobriety&#8217;s 7th birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6><strong> Would you please make my big day an even bigger day for someone else through donating to ONE of the follow THREE causes?<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Help create more sobriety birthdays with a <em>tax-deductible<\/em> donation to Dirty Girls Ministries:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/?page_id=34\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Send a Christmas card through DaySpring\/Compassion\u00a0to a\u00a0sponsorless\u00a0child in\u00a0Ecuador:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiodayspring.com\/cardbasket_view\/?basket_id=160\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Give to the work of StandOut International to help protect children from the sex trade:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.standoutinternational.co.uk\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">AND THERE&#8217;S SOMETHING IN IT FOR YOU . . .<\/h3>\n<p><strong>If you donate,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/blog\/?p=4816#respond\" target=\"_blank\">leave a comment<\/a> sharing which cause you donated to and you&#8217;ll be entered to WIN<\/strong><strong> a copy of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianbook.com\/permission-speak-freely-essays-confession-grace\/anne-jackson\/9780849945991\/pd\/945991?event=AFF&amp;item_code=WW&amp;netp_id=793759&amp;p=1156259&amp;view=details\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Permission to Speak Freely&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0Poignant\u00a0in that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/annejacksonwrites.com\" target=\"_blank\">Anne<\/a> was actually the friend I confessed to 7 years ago and the story of that day is written in her book! If you already have her book\u2014no worries\u2014it can make a great gift for someone else. <\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Enter to win by 11:59pm CST on Friday, November 19.<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s a huge honor to share this day, in this way, with you all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>~Crystal~<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am only posting this cause people have asked. . . but PLEASE donate to one of the above organizations first. <\/strong>Personally, I am saving up for my own computer. With that said,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/us\/personalize\/apple?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY&amp;product=MA210LL\/C \" target=\"_blank\"><strong>gift cards to the Apple Store<\/strong><\/a> would be a preferred gift option if one were to want to get me something.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, November 19 is my birthday. But that date has another significance in my life. On my 19th birthday seven years ago, while attending a nice Christian concert, I confessed to a friend about my pornography addiction for the very first time. It is not ironic. I believe it is divine that for the rest&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=4816\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s Birthday Week at DGM!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,183,191,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction","category-birthday","category-crystal-renaud","category-donate","category-testimonials","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4820,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}