Welcome to Recovery, Light, and Life... I'm Chris Epson... If you are new here, you might be thinking "I really don't have an addiction. Why would I be interested in reading this?" That's a great question, and the answer is...you probably do. Everyone has something they go to when life gets too hard, when the stress and pain is too much, when they just don't feel good enough, or when they are just living unconsciously. It might only be diet Coke, romance novels, gaming, or food. Maybe it's anger. Maybe it's shopping. I believe that we are in recovery from mortality and all the challenges that come with it. Life is hard and it's intended to be. But...life is also full of joy and love and peace and progress and Grace and growth and deep relationship with God and other broken people just like us. So how do we experience more of that? If we are, in fact, all living in recovery, th...
"The opposite of addiction is connection." "You are not kept clean by your obedience, by doing everything you can as perfectly as you can. You are kept clean by your honesty about everything you can't do, about everything going wrong." Christina Judd...from the book "All We Can Do" As I've written before, we are all addicts in some way. We all...every one of us...have our "go to" in order to feel better about ourselves, to distract ourselves from the harsh realities of this world, or to numb whatever pain we might be feeling, whether it's physical, emotional, relational, or spiritual. As Lynn liked to say, "Pain is my traveling teacher." None of us will get out of this life without experiencing it, and some of us more so than others. It's just life, and it's designed to be this way. President Russell M. Nelson said..." Any addiction - be it gaming, debt, drugs, alcohol, anger, pornography, sex...