2009-Sep-13 - Choices Make Huge Differences!
It's really not a secret that we all have choices that we exercise each day in our lives. I remember dreaming of being all grown up as a girl who couldn't wait to become 16, then 18, then it was 20 and on it went,,, but today I am calling a halt to the birthdays as I have since doubled all three PLUS of those numbers and realize that the dreaming and wishing for this age or that age really won't bring about what it was I was hoping for~the goals I had set or the things I want to achieve.
Looking back, I see life as a series of choices like a dance in rhythm of time and tempo. Life throws all sorts of things our way, but not in an arbitrary way, as my faith has taught me that God has as a master choreographer designed my dance...I can either perform the dance His way or I can do it my own. Sometimes my own dance will seem to be working well with the music and rhythm, but then later I see that His design was best, or that I can change this step or that to fit the score much better as my Heavenly Father desires and has designed. I find that if I chose His steps, that I am in step and doing well or as He deems my life to become or in process of becoming. . .
My mother shared with me about a man who we once both worked for who in this recent year has died of tragic circumstances. I had left the employment with him at the time well over 15 years ago because he had issued a veiled threat to me as the result of his realizing that I knew information that was damaging to him, that he was a drug addict. We all know that drugs in many work environments are not tolerated, and it was his thinking that if I knew something on him, I might harm him, when the real danger was he to himself. Today, he is gone as a result of this problem that he had attempted to guard so well from others. . .I won't judge him. He was truly a wonderfully funny man to work with, but when he threatened me, that was the end of any working relationship I may have had, and I resigned as well as shared with our employer what I knew. . .seemed silly I suppose to them at the time that I would make such an assertion to his activities when each day he arrived in suit and so well put together. . .but today, if their association of employment has lasted all these years, they now fully know what I knew but was powerless to change or help.
Drug addiction is an issue that isn't just a low class problem. It permeates and invades the lives of all classes, both genders and all races. It's huge in our country. . .but we really aren't dealing with the core issue of it in our society. Prominent people die everyday, celebrities, music legends, politicians and everyday people, somebody's son or daughter who has gotten themselves into a pattern that they find unbreakable. . .but choice, while its power may be weaker as further into the spiral one may go, choice is strong in the beginning of the dance into drug use. Choosing to "try it", choosing to have more and then more until it becomes an insatiable desire that leads to loss of dignity and too frequently life as well as relationship, economic viability as the person becomes less able to function and poverty as the desire for the next hit of drug takes over the desires of the body to exploit the emotions and thoughts of the mind. Choice~in the beginning can say NO! Choice does have the ability to make the decision to walk away from the negative influences early on...but later when the addiction has taken hold, and choice becomes less strong it's more unlikely as the spiral continues that recovery will take hold and bolster choice so that the afflicted will remain drug free. Drug FREE!
I am heart broken for those with such a condition as diminished choice in their lives, but do believe that with God's help, He alone has power in making choices that will arise to reclaim the person from the clutches of his own choices. . .to relieve his burden and aid him to deny his person the very thing that those initial choices and continued ones have put within his being. God can help and will~another choice to call upon the Lord of all Creation~God who is Maker of Heaven and Earth.
We must encourage those who are struggling with their choices of drug addiction to chose God to help them in their cry for substance become their cry for the Creator. We must pray diligently and ask God to show us a way to help so that these and others will not be taken from us too soon, in ways that do not glorify God. . .Choices make a huge difference!
Let's chose to pray and help, not judge or enable, but appropriately intervene before the throne of God on behalf of those struggling...we have choices, and they make a huge difference!
blessings
SisterTipster
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2009-Sep-14 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Nichole
Amen sister!
