{"id":3036,"date":"2023-11-02T19:29:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T19:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2023-11-02T19:29:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T19:29:44","slug":"blog-november-2nd-matthew-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=3036","title":{"rendered":"Blog November 2nd Matthew Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I know that this has been \u201cdoing the rounds\u201d on social media but I still thought it worth sharing. <\/p>\n

Matthew Perry, the US actor famously known for his role as Chandler in the sitcom Friends, has revealed how he experienced a breakthrough in his battle with alcohol addiction after a prayer.
\nHe said: “God, please help me, show me that you are here. God, please help me…”
\n“I started to cry. I mean, I really started to cry – that shoulder-shaking kind of uncontrollable weeping. I wasn’t crying because I was sad. I was crying because for the first time in my life, I felt okay. I felt safe, taken care of. Decades of struggling with God, and wrestling with life and sadness, all was being washed away, like a river of pain gone into oblivion.”
\n“I had been in the presence of God. I was certain of it.”
\nPerry says he stayed sober for two years based “solely” on that encounter with God.
\n“God had shown me a sliver of what life could be. He saved me that day, and for all days, no matter what. He had turned me into a seeker, not only of sobriety, and truth, but also of him\u201d.<\/p>\n

Quote of the week<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nMorrie Schwartz\/Jack Lemmon <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled” featuring Ben Morris from the album Risen! The Musical recorded and produced by Joffy Girling I know that this has been \u201cdoing the rounds\u201d on social media but I still thought it worth sharing. Matthew Perry, the US actor famously known for his role as Chandler in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3040,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}