The Chosen

We who are addicts must not view our addiction as an affliction but rather a divine opportunity. For we have been graced with no choice but to follow His way or perish from our affliction. Such is the highest calling. Each human is put on earth, lives and dies. Many unafflicted seem to live a rather banal, meaningless existence. But some have been chosen to manifest the power of God's grace. We addicts are these chosen people. Our calling begins with our crisis. Our crisis leaves us lost in the desert, shocked, unable to use any of our previously treasured resources to survive. So all that's left is to cry out to Him for help. All that's left is to follow His lead. And we are saved. Chosen, we then ascend to eternal life by leading others who share our affliction to follow His way. We ultimately discover that we have not been afflicted but graced and empowered. So let us not mourn our affliction but be grateful for the opportunity to live a life of true meaning.

So, in the words of Alan Ginsburg, "You who saw it all, or flashes and fragments, take from us some example, to try and get yourselves together, to clean up your act, find your community, pick up on some sort of redemption of your own consciousness, become more mindful of your own friends, your own work, your own proper meditation, your own proper art, your own beauty, and go out and make it for your own eternity,"

Love, Light, Wisdom and Live the Miracle

I've been thinking along these lines a lot myself lately. I wouldn't wish addiction of any sort on anyone but I feel that everyone would benefit from the lessons and way of life we learn