We all have our addictive or obsessive tendencies and problems. Mine is sloth and trying to hide and escape watching television or movies. Our additive tendencies isolate us from others and some are certainly more destructive than others. Addictions are like a migrating disease. If you try to get rid of one, the addiction will flock to another area of your life.
Addictions are like geese flying from one area of our life to another turning our inner lakes into cesspools. The vicious cycle perpetuates itself because addictions and the many hidden ways we try to escape and cope are our little ways we try to control our lives and world. The problem is we are not supposed to be in control, God is the one who rules and reigns, not us.
Like the old Steve McQueen movie "The Great Escape," what are you trying to escape in life? The only way to truly escape is thru the cross of Christ. Notice Jesus was offered a sponge of wine to take away and numb some of the pain and escape the hurt he was feeling. On the cross, Jesus endured it all. Jesus first miracle was making wine at a wedding but now at the cross, he rejected it in his suffering. I know I would have taken the sponge. In the cross we learn how to escape all our escapisms.
(Reflections from reading A. J. Swoboda A Glorious Dark)
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