Thank God!

I was watching Intervention last night. I watch it mainly because I can relate to it through my parents, sisters, friends, and even my own husband’s addictions and how they can rule every decision you make. I enjoy the happy endings more than anything, but last night something struck me for the first time. What could Jesus do for these people?!

I have watched the show for several years, and even applied to the show for my mother once. My brother once told me when I was talking about the show; our life is One Big Intervention. We have watched our mother in the last 2 years have overdose after overdose, with no solution to the problem, because she didn’t want one. We have sat by her in the hospital while she is totally confused and belligerent. We have seen her forget who we are, and call us by other names. We have sat with her and a psychiatrist and begged her to stop! For months we watched her slowly killing herself, and didn’t know, each time, if it would be the last. As cold as it may sound, I prayed for her to die! I prayed for God to take her! I wanted her to stop hurting, but I also wanted her to stop hurting us!

My mother has rheumatoid arthritis and has a need of pain meds to help with the pain that comes from this illness. But she has abused them for several years, going through withdrawals monthly. We had prayed and prayed for something to happen for her rock bottom, and we still aren’t sure if she has truly hit it, but for now she is clean.

By clean I don’t mean sober, but she is moderating the amount she takes and not abusing them like before. We think it may have been something with her ongoing heart health issues, and that she will already be on medication for the rest of her life for that.

But more than anything I know it is God! I feel Him in this, and I know what he can do! I know he has talked with her, and possibly shown her what this is not only doing to her, but to everyone around her; especially her grandkids. Being an addict is the most selfish disease in this world, and I do not know how anyone can come through it without knowing and feeling the power of God.

Since I have come back into a relationship with Jesus I can not imagine ever going back to living without Him, so it is difficult to see how much those people are needing something to fill the void in their lives and want to yell at them to start down a real path of healing and recovery with Him as the center!!!

I watched and thought about the people who turn down the chances they get or relapse during treatment, and I was just extremely curious if they had known or found God during their recovery. I have found Him and am constantly working on my recovery, but without Him I might be sitting in their shoes, and I will never forget that He has Saved me from that! So I say simply this, Thank You God for creating your own type of intervention for me! Thank You for surrounding me with the people who care enough to help me find my way back to You! Thank You for letting me see how much you work in everyone’s lives, so that I can catch a glimpse as to what you have in store for the rest of mine!