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New Life Lodge is located in the heart of the Tennessee countryside at the center of our serene 109 wooded acres overlooking the lake. An atmosphere of beauty, serenity, and comfort pervades the Lodge.
The Main Lodge, with its exquisite views of the lake, serves as a gathering place for friends and family. Most group meetings take place in the Great Room and its many adjacent rooms.
The fireplace is the focal point of the New Life Lodge Great Room, surrounded by comfortable chairs for reading and meditation. 
Rustic exteriors give way to comfortable, climate controlled cabins. Each cabin provides four (4) double-occupancy bedrooms, ample closets, individual dressers, and two full baths with double sinks. The commons area with its generous seating and lighting encourages inspirational reading, conversation and quiet time. Cabins are furnished with washers and dryers for our clients' personal use. Fishing equipment is allowed and used during permitted times.
The Chapel is open to our clients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with nondenominational services held, by lay persons and clerics, each Sunday. Most persons conducting the services are recovering New Life Lodge Alumni. The intimate atmosphere is enhanced by warm wooden pews, a piano, and soft lighting. Services often include music and words of support from local and national personalities. The 5th step of our 12-Step Program is celebrated with symbolic ringing of the bells. Clients and families grow and gain an inner strength during quiet moments in the chapel.
Nestled among the dogwood, New Life Lodge is especially beautiful in the springtime. It provides a special sanctuary for individuals who are confronted by spiritual, physical, and social upheavals caused by their substance abuse.
As legend has it, at the time of the crucifixion, the dogwood had reached the size of the mighty oak tree. So strong and firm was the wood that it was chosen as the timber for Jesus' cross. To be used for such a cruel purpose greatly distressed the dogwood. While nailed upon it, Jesus sensed this, and in his compassion said.
"Because of your pity for my suffering, never again shall the dogwood tree grow large enough to be used for a cross. Henceforth, it shall be slender, bent, and twisted, and its blossoms shall be in the form of a cross—two long and two short petals. In the center of the outer edge of each petal will be the print of nails. In the center of the flower, stained with blood, will be a crown of thorns so that all who see it will remember."
Thus, the dogwood tree today is a small, under story tree. The dogwood blooms in April around Easter Sunday.