Yesterday's newspaper said 47,000 people died of drug/alcohol related deaths last year!!! Can you imagine??!! That is unbelievable.
Then on tv sports the news that a young, star quarterback gets traded because of alcohol related incidents. His short, high visibility, high expectations, multi-million dollar career is essentially over if he doesn't get his addiction in control. His father says he will be dead in a couple of years if he continues on this road.
And then in our local paper, an article discussing the wife of a state supreme court judge---arrested for drunk driving and attacking the man with whom she had a traffic accident. All I can think of is "there but for the grace of God..."
And I mean that...God's grace moved me into recovery. It's not "perfect" recovery but as David Foster Wallace writes, "Those parts of me are still there but I don't let them drive anymore."
This is a complicated, fatal disease. It kills, it ruins careers, it devastates lives. If we have the disease, it challenges us our whole lives. But we "don't have to let it drive anymore." We have choices.
We call upon God to be with us in it...to be with us to make the right choices. We are not alone. Pray.
Blessings-Penny
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