"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...