FROM THE PEN OF OTHERS-addiction help
Thursday, 21 January 2010 15:27 | Written by Keith Bray | 
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FROM THE PEN OF OTHERS
One of the things I love about blogging is the feedback I get. It sure helps me broaden my horizons, and some people have a great way with words. Periodically I get something and ask permission to include in a blog.
Seems like I to get to know the spirit of others through constant net contact. Something I’d like to share from my friend Cara in response to a post about “How Low Do You Go”.
“The important distinction is that you go low enough for long enough to be able to admit that you can't do it yourself. I lived at the top end of the pit for a long time, it wasn't a great existence but I could just about pretend to myself and everyone else that I was living a normal life. Then I slipped further down to where I could see what the bottom would look like and it looked like social suicide (probably closely followed by the physical type). So I didn't hit it but I knew exactly what it was and I knew that if I didn't stop that was where I would be pretty soon. It has to be said that I wasn't even aware of the possibility of recovery until that moment (or maybe I had not considered myself in need of it until then and hadn't looked) but when recovery was offered I took it with both hands and I was in no doubt at all that my own efforts availed me nothing and that I was powerless, still am if the truth be known.
Believing that the God I had known during all those long years at the top of the pit could and would save me was my biggest problem, why hadn't He done it before then? Presumably because I hadn't got low enough to let Him.”
Thanks Cara for sharing some real life thinking and experience.
How many let pride and ego get in the way of asking for help? How many are prepared to go even lower than low…….go to death of terrible levels of despair? There sure is help readily available.
One of the things I love about blogging is the feedback I get. It sure helps me broaden my horizons, and some people have a great way with words. Periodically I get something and ask permission to include in a blog.
Seems like I to get to know the spirit of others through constant net contact. Something I’d like to share from my friend Cara in response to a post about “How Low Do You Go”.
“The important distinction is that you go low enough for long enough to be able to admit that you can't do it yourself. I lived at the top end of the pit for a long time, it wasn't a great existence but I could just about pretend to myself and everyone else that I was living a normal life. Then I slipped further down to where I could see what the bottom would look like and it looked like social suicide (probably closely followed by the physical type). So I didn't hit it but I knew exactly what it was and I knew that if I didn't stop that was where I would be pretty soon. It has to be said that I wasn't even aware of the possibility of recovery until that moment (or maybe I had not considered myself in need of it until then and hadn't looked) but when recovery was offered I took it with both hands and I was in no doubt at all that my own efforts availed me nothing and that I was powerless, still am if the truth be known.
Believing that the God I had known during all those long years at the top of the pit could and would save me was my biggest problem, why hadn't He done it before then? Presumably because I hadn't got low enough to let Him.”
Thanks Cara for sharing some real life thinking and experience.
How many let pride and ego get in the way of asking for help? How many are prepared to go even lower than low…….go to death of terrible levels of despair? There sure is help readily available.
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