It’s when you look up from the down and realize,
I still have a lot to learn.
Because with all a parent knows, they know very little about their addicted child. Maybe the truth is what we once knew and what we think we know now are two different things.
Today, I live in a reality that the possibility of death is not a motivator towards owning ones recovery. If it was, motivation would be the idea of one more time using can lead to one last time breathing.
When someone knows Narcan saved their life not once, twice, or three times, but dozens of times, yet they still use, the fear of dying is gone, numbed by the need and desire to be high.
When using overtakes the body and shuts down the organs, you hope this is it, and they begin to love themselves enough to stop. You want today to be the day recovery starts. But more than that, you want them to want it, too.
Nothing manifests from what a parent wants, dreams, or hopes. Our words can’t change a thing. Our tears no longer matter. Others are unaware of our sleeplessness. We are invalid when drugs have control.
Will today be the day things change? Will valuing themselves and knowing they deserve so much more bring impact and breakthrough? Can hope penetrate the wall of hopelessness and the craving for freedom be more potent than the craving that leads to self-imposed imprisonment?
I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
~Lisa 🙏🏼
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I’m so sorry for your pain. I’m a redeemed struggler – I know how hard the battle is and how powerless everyone is in it apart from Jesus Christ. May Jesus redeem your loved one. May He preserve her life and set her free. May He teach her to walk as the redeemed. May His power be perfected in her and in her weakness. And may He strengthen you, enable you moment by moment to rest in Him.
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Amen. Thank you for your message. There is always hope.
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Wow girl you have been really through it!! I am so sorry I didn’t know the depths of your pain and frustration. You are so elegant in your words!! My son has never OD or had to use Narcan , that I know of, a few times he had to have chest rubs I heard to stimulate his breathing. God is good!! My son just got probation for his 12 yr addiction in both counties and he is awaiting meetings with them. Adams ordered inpatient rehab but haven’t heard from them yet they are sooo busy and the beds are full I’m sure. He is sleeping in someone’s car for now again.
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I hope this is his wake up. He deserves so much more and is worthy of freedom from addiction. As they all are!
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