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Pastimes : Ask God
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To: Barnabus who wrote (31542)9/22/2000 7:33:11 PM
From: Jamey  Read Replies (1) of 39621
 
Real Godly wisdom, Barney? I can tell you I know for sure that nothing but a complete re-arrangement of his emotions and mental workings can ever deliver him and that can only be done by God, not bosses, wives or friends. Well meaning loved ones only serve to enable him further.

Anybody can quit. I did it hundreds of times. Getting over the physical addiction is not the problem. Alcoholism is not about the symptom of drinking. It is about the mental quirk that causes one to reach for the drink knowing what it is doing to him and family every time he does it. That is the problem. Thinking that this time he can handle it.

All of you stand back and be in constant prayer for him and his family. People seldom realize it, but wife and children are always affected almost as badly.

Buy him a case of Jack Daniels and wish him well. Don't cover for him or protect him from his destructive actions. If it is God's will that he recover, he will hit bottom and manage to salvage what is left of his life. It usually requires the loss of the alcoholics family, job and anything else he holds dear, before he is able to fully understand just how sick he really is.

There are few happy endings to this addiction. I think about it often. It is still a battle for me to accept the devastation it causes to many good people. It is still hard for me to not want to make it better in some way for the practicing alcoholic. There are many who ride it all the way. I can only believe that those who die drunk serve as a testament to those who may make it.

I know you were expecting something bright and rosy from me. I wish I could.

Santiago
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