Day 1

People often look at drug addiction as a personal battle between the addict and the drug.

Often overlooked are the family members who wage war from time to time alongside the addict.

We stand on the sidelines and weep as the battle takes its toll on that person we love.

Every now and then we step into the chaos and ultimately end up getting hurt ourselves.

So we step back outside the battle line and wait and pray.

This cycle goes on for years until there comes a time when you have to choose, once and for all, to stand on the outside and watch and pray.

That is where I am.

Two siblings in a prescription fog and I can’t reach them and they seem to be perfectly content there.

Not caring how much they’ve lost, how much more they can lose, just in a daze.

The Bible says when you’ve done all you can do to stand. Stand.

This blog was inspired by a Parable I remembered this morning.

Luke 13:6-9

⁶Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any. ⁷So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, 'For three years now I've been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?'  ⁸" 'Sir,' the man replied, 'leave it alone for one more year, and I'll dig around it and fertilize it. ⁹If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.' "

So I prayed, “Lord, one more year.. please”.

So here I am, believing & trusting the Lord will restore my brother in a year.

Stepping out in faith.

I decided a couple of days ago to finally confront my brother with the what I knew about his lifestyle.

It was the truth and it was not received well at all.

In fact, this was his response:

.  ..At any rate, I want you out of my life forever. 

My husband, who was an addict for 35 years, helps me to understand where addicts are at each time I decide to step into the battlefield.

Addicts do not believe there is anything wrong with them. So, if you point out what *is* wrong.. they think you are crazy.

(I know, I had to run that around in my mind a few times ).

I hope this blog will help you.. I hope your stories of faith will help me.

These prescription drugs are not like anything else we have ever encountered so far in our lives.

It’s reaching epidemic proportions and in reading and studying Revelation, the word Sorcery is defined as this:

Revelation in Rev 9:21 and 18:23. The last two are derived from the definition above. They are derived from pharmakeia /far·mak·i·ah/ and look at the primary definition listed first and also the second. It deals heavily with the administration of drugs or poisons. For me this was an eye opener.

Do you realize how powerful the modern day ‘drug companies’ or can we say -pharmaceutical companies are? Do you realize how many people around the world are daily on a regimen that includes these drugs that are being manufactured by the billions of pills each and every day. It seems as though the more sick the world gets, the more pills, potions, lotions, injections, vaccines, etc that we are sold.