When I was drinking, it felt like I was looking at everything through foggy lenses.
At first, I was just checking out to not deal with my interpretation of what was going on. Then, after living that way in the fog for so many years, I began to think I needed alcohol to take myself down a notch to deal with things. That was just the way it was.
I was dependent upon it to be OK—Or, so I thought. I didn’t think I could live or deal with anything without alcohol.
Not true. But, I didn’t know another way.
We say in our program, “alcohol and drugs are but a symptom.” The alcohol that I thought was helping me deal, was just fogging my vision of the truth—keeping me in the fog. It was taking me further into darkness.
G.K. Chesterton said this, “God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.”
I heard a woman say in a meeting yesterday, “I can truly say that there is no spirituality without physical sobriety.”
When I fully surrendered my obsession to God, the fog lifted. My lenses cleared. I could see everything clearly and was no longer dependent on a substance that was standing in the way of God’s access to me.
What was the way out?
Walk out of the fog.
Surrender to God.
Turn on the Light.
“But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.”
Ephesians 5:13
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