GREENE STREET LETTERS: An Open Letter From Your Addiction

Thursday, March 9, 2017

An Open Letter From Your Addiction

( A letter for you, written by your addiction)

Good morning....

Hope you are miserable this glorious day....

Let's get to the point, shall we?

I hate your meetings! I hate your higher power, Jesus! I hate anyone who has a program they are working.

To everyone who comes in contact with me, I wish you death. I wish you suffering!

Allow me to introduce myself....I am addiction...take your pick....alcohol or drugs, it doesn't matter.

I am cunning, baffling and powerful...but I also possess one more trait that you seldom are aware of.
I am patient. I will wait for you when you "TRY" to recover, only to trip you up down the road somewhere. Yep! That's me. I have killed millions and I'm pleased. I love to catch you with the element of surprise. I love pretending that I am your friend and lover. C'mon! Don't be so surprised. I have given you comfort, have I not? Wasn't I there when you were lonely? When you wanted to die, didn't you call me? I was there! I love to make you hurt.....I live to make you cry.

Better yet, I love it when you are so numb you can neither hurt or cry. You can't feel anything at all. This is my true glory! I will give you instant gratification and all I ask of you is long term suffering.

I've been there for you always, when things were going right in your life, you invited me in. You said that you didn't deserve these good things, and I was the only one who would agree with you.

Together we were able to destroy all the good things in your life. People really don't take me seriously. They take heart attacks, strokes, and ever diabetes seriously. Fools that they are. People hate me so much...and yet, I did not come uninvited. You chose to have me. So many others have chosen me over reality and peace. Let's get this straight....more than you hate me, I hate all of those who have a recovery or treatment plan. I hate your 12 steps. I hate your "Jesus is my higher power". Why do I hate Jesus? Because I know He truly is a power that can break the hold I have over you. Now I must lie here quietly...

You don't see me, but I am here...

Let's get one thing straight....
When you only exist...I LIVE!
When you live....I only EXIST!

SO with all this being what it is, I close with this sentiment.

I wish you suffering and death...

Signed...

Your addiction.

( The following was taken from a handout that I used when I taught at Rapha. I lay no claim to being the author, although I did add a few things to it).

God on you...

mbb

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Looking At The World Through Cracked Lens

As ol' Paul wrote in his Corinthian letters.."We see in part and we know in part." Now what piece of this bit of wisdom do we not get? I wish to not run around acting and trying to be some sort of Biblical G00-Ru (I meant to spell it wrong). Or a sage of sages.

I simply want to be able to communicate some of what God has given to me. Why? Do I think what I get is better than what you may have received from Him? Nope. But I do think encouragement comes when we share our daily story of struggle and victory in an effort to encourage each other.

Thanks for letting me share.

Time to soldier on..

mbb

Our Statement of Faith

We believe that God is the eternal king. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power and love. From all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons of one substance, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit equal in power and glory. we believe that God created mankind in His image, male and female, for relationship with Himself and to govern the earth. Under the temptation of Satan, our original parents fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness and God's judgment of death to the earth. Through the fall, Satan and his demonic hosts gained access to God's good creation. Creation now experiences the consequences and effects of Adam's original sin. Human beings are born into sin, subject to God's judgment of death and captive to Satan's kingdom of darkness. We believe that Jesus, God's Son, was sent to this world, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, fully God and fully man in one person. He is humanity as God intended us to be. Jesus was anointed as God's Messiah and empowered by the Holy Spirit, ushering in God's kingdom reign on earth, overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the good news of salvation, healing the sick, casting out demons and raising the dead. Jesus' atoning death on the cross took God's judgment for sin which we deserved as law-breakers. Jesus' resurrection and ascent back to heaven opened the door for those who received salvation to begin a relationship with God.

Little Nets Into Deep Waters

Fishing nets were designed for one purpose only. To catch fish. Nets are no good if they stay on the boat. Nets serve no purpose if they are never used. I think maybe God sees us this way. We are all created for a purpose (by the way, the creator gets to define what our purpose is). Any other use besides the one we were created for does us no good. But when the creator places His hands upon us, casting us out into those scary, dark places with deep waters, it is then we can see the reality of our purpose. He knew there would be a catch waiting for us. I think I will be the net God has called me to be.

The Twelve Steps

As a community of people in recovery, we affirm that our higher power is Jesus Christ. He did for us what we could not do for ourselves. Just as God told the children of Israel He was going to give them a promised land, He has revealed to us that He desires to give us a "Promised Life." When Israel got to the promised land, God instructed them to go and in a possess it, fight for it and claim it. In recovery, the 12 Steps are the directions given to us on how to fight, possess and claim this promised life.

Thursday, March 9, 2017

An Open Letter From Your Addiction

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THE REALITY OF THE NAME OF GOD