Addiction Can Be Defeated

I am not an addict. Maybe to doing the things I most like to do? But not to drugs; I am not addicted to any of what we call "the hard core" drugs.

Neither am I a do-gooder, who thinks more highly of himself than he should.

Basically, I am a minister, a rather singularly focused preacher who loves to stand behind a pulpit and proclaim the Good News.

Also, I love people, virtually everyone I've known or met and been around for a while. It's true: I am a people-person; I value life, that of the unborn and ALSO that of the person on death row waiting to exit this world.

So, heed me, please, addicted friend, whom I probably have never met. Your life is of supreme (eternal) value. Save it, what you have left of your earthly years.

Yes, you can. My other friends who conquered addiction tell me that it can be done, beginning not with me, but with you, the addicted one.

It's that simple. Overcoming addiction begins with the addicted one genuinely wanting to be freed from the drug(s) that are controlling his or her life.

"I don't seem to be able to do that," you say. "I want to, but every time I've tried to give up my habit I have failed."

My answer: Indeed, every time you've tried to overcome your addiction, your habit has continued to control your life.

But no matter how many times, you say you have failed; your life, I remind you again, is of eternal value. Save it! In the Here and Now!

Sit down and have the longest talk you've ever had with yourself. Ask yourself, if you really want to live a more "normal" life, free to go, to do, without an addictive crutch. If, however, this doesn't seem to be working, go to your minister, or better said, go to a minister who will help you to wake up from your addiction and really live!

And pray. That's what prayer is: pleading with your Creator to be a real, alive, happy person.

So it will be: at some point in this latter stage, you will genuinely embrace yourself and declare emphatically, "I love me!"

Yes! You are now on your way to better health and awesome happiness.

Putt