real life post coming...
I've been blogging more lately, mostly about Godly things. Tonight's post isn't really my thoughts on what God has for me. It's just a real life thing.. I guess.
There's a lot of addiction in this world, addition to drugs, alcohol, porn, social media... The list can probably go on and on and on, I won't attempt to name them all. Over the course of my thirty something years of life, I've known and know more than my fair share of addicts (see list above). While I've never had a real addiction per se, for many years I drank too much alcohol.
It was a time in my life where I rebelled from the life I should have been leading and took a crowded road on a path to hell! I've come a long way since then and I no longer drink or smoke or party and my life has changed entirely. I don't even know that person anymore.
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| circa 2010 |
I have several friends who aren't as lucky. Several friends who are stuck on that road to hell and whether they just don't want to figure out how to get off the road or they just.don't.care. It genuinely just breaks my heart, because well ... I love them all. Each their own way and for different reasons and at different times of my life, but it doesn't change the love. They hold a special place in my heart and I just hate to know they're battling something to dark and evil. My brother in law is addicted to heroin and well he's been in and out of jail and rehabs and just back and forth and on and off and he just can't shake it. I've recently found out that the brother of one of the men at church is also battling addiction, he has a small child and a large family that loves him and recently found out he has cancer as well. It's a real mess. But just yesterday I read a news report about a group who was arrested in our county. I saw it on a friends social media and she'd tagged a friend, she knew one of the people. Being nosy that I am, sometimes, I clicked it and read through it and low and behold I knew two of them as well. My heart broke a little, because I'd always cared about one of them and though I'd never met the other, they were in a relationship so naturally I cared for them as well. Well I sent it to my friend and we chatted about it and talked about the disappointment of it and well that was really it. Tonight I couldn't shake the feeling that I just had to contact my friend. So I sent a message on social media, a kind message but in this message it contained my feelings toward the situation. Kindly of course. Telling this person that what had happened sucked and that they were better than that and that I'd pray for the situation. I was shocked to get a reply. I didn't expect to hear anything from them honestly. We had a very good conversation and I come out of it knowing about three things.
- my friend isn't addicted to hard drugs
- I got up on my soap box with this person and told them how I felt, because I genuinely care about them. I've always cared about them. I care about a lot of people and addiction is a real thing and it's terrible and horrible and it's hard and I was scared. But I did it, I said what I thought and I told them I cared and that I would pray for them.
- I don't make enough contact with others on their addiction. The ones that I'm closest to and related by marriage to I don't say enough to them. I try to encourage but after this conversation I see that it just may not be enough and that maybe it's doing more harm by not just saying how I feel about the whole thing.
It's really got me to thinking... I think it's time to make some changes in the things I say and how I say them, because some people need the words and they're not hearing them.
Just like the world needs the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ and there aren't enough people willing to do it.
I'm going to show the love of Christ and share the love of Christ.
There are a lot of battles out there. Addiction is a Hydra, and battling the inability to speak is another. Also knowing when and how to speak. I have too much flesh wanting to pop off at every occasion, and I am working desperately to find the balance. Just tonight, a friend of "different political bent" put up a series of posts that I really wanted to comment on. But in between tham was a meme that had a cartoon drawing of Jesus teaching the Apostles and Peter counting his fingers, thinking, "Great, now not only do I have forgive my brother, but I have to do math, too!" And beneath was the message: "Forgive. Because math is hard." And I scrolled on by. Because politics isn't worth the friendship, and winning the argument isn't worth the cost.
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