Recovery Attitudes #1

( What is Recovery?)

Recovery is - simply -

the process of re-discovering

a love that is greater

than your love

of the demon drink

or the demon drug.

Because -

addiction is all about happiness

and happiness is all about freedom

and freedom is all about the truth

- drug or alcohol addiction -

is fundamentally a problem

of loving the wrong things.

It is a misled sense of affectation

for a false happiness - that leads -

to a false freedom - that leads -

to nowhere - again and again.

The potency of this addiction

may be determined by how determinedly

- consciously as well as unconsciously -

the soul of the addict

has become willing to accept

the lie that keeps his or her spirit

locked deep within the suffocating confines

of substance abuse.

- selah -

Therefore,

the staying power

(i.e. the power it has over one's right choices)

of demon drugs or demon drink

is not in the drugs or the drink

it is in the deception.

And the longer the lie is held,

the more lethal it shall become.

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