The Cross

Good morning addict!  Remember when you lived in a nice house, you had a car that ran and a big bag of quality shit?  Life was good, huh?  Now you wake up in that banged-out old trailer, there is a car out there but it doesn’t run and you’ve got a bag of some cut crap that is barely enough to get you through the morning.  Life sucks.  Its summer, the days are hot and long and the swamp cooler is broken.  What are you gonna do!?  I will tell you what to do.  You may not believe or except this now but you eventually will for it is our only salvation.  In your mind try to picture God but if you think you don‘t believe or that, that is just beyond your perception at least just think about a cross.  Visualize the cross in your mind, visualize your addiction as the tangible reality that it is, including all the hardship and baggage you have accumulated, visualize all this wrapped up and put into one big package.  Now clearly in your mind visualize this, you pick up that package and carry it to that cross and lay it down at the foot of that cross, you look at it, you see it.  It once was your package of crap but now you have laid it down and given it to that cross, it belongs to that cross now and is no longer yours.  Do not try to pick it back up.  Now visualize yourself turning around and walking away.  Do not look back, just keep walking.  And if you don’t yet feel the need to say thank You that’s O.K., you will and God will wait.

For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.  Luke 19;10