To: The Mother Of An Addict - Episode # 4 - a podcast by MSG of Hope
from 2018-03-26T12:00
To be the mother of an addict is not a rare thing anymore but rather quite common. It's sad that we often turn a blind eye to things until the mess get's so BIG you can't ignore or cover it up any more. Our world as a whole does this. We avoid things being “too real” for us to handle.
During the years we were initially forced to face the fact we had a member addicted to pills I felt very isolated. I didn't hear any of my friends discussing having this problem and as mentioned in my podcast titled “Got chains” I felt like I had a dark cloud surrounding me every day and thought we were the only ones that were being affected by addiction.
And I certainly didn't want to risk myself as the parent or my child being judged by others. As a mom you do all you can to protect your kids. I mean what kind of mother would I be to go around putting down my child by talking about bad things they were doing with other people? No, as a mother, my instinct was to protect my children from others and to guard them against people judging them, and If your a mother listening to this, you know what I'm talking about.
We are the glue that holds things together, guides, directs, nurtures and usually exude a very similar type of love that our brother Jesus (Yeshua) did-you know loving the unlovable and the sinner and our hope is that our children are liked and accepted by others and that as they go beyond the teenage years and approach adulthood we don't want their adolescent behaviors to follow them into adulthood. Because you know as well as I do, that people don't usually notice the good in you but they amplify and discuss at length with everyone they know any little dirty little piece of gossip they can find on you, especially in a small town.
Let's talk about this.
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