Selah gave a very informative testimony about her encounter with drugs. This is a situation I have never had to deal with, making her talk all the more eye opening for me. Her account was very detailed and explicit allowing us to see a glimpse of what an addict goes through in their daily lives. Drug addiction is something I rarely think about and it is great to have a new found respect for those who beat the addiction and pull their lives together.
The saddest part of Ms. Selah's testimony was what the addiction did to her family life. It tore apart her relationship with her immediate family as a child, growing up and then when she started a family of her own. The addiction was so blinding that she couldn't even see the effect it was taking on her family and their growth together. It was also good to see how formative we are as children. When we are young we are like clay just waiting to be molded, and the first person to gain our trust is capable of doing just that. It is really inspiring, as a future parent myself, to know how much of an affect my husband and I will have on our children. It is a tremendous responsibility God gives us. Selah talked of those years, moving around so much and gaining a low self-esteem, as part of the reason she originally started using drugs.
Like most of the sins in our lives, we get so caught up in them and blinded by them we fail to notice the simple things that continue to go on without us. Before we know it we have dug ourselves into a deep hole that we cannot escape from. This is how an addict would feel. She described her weeks, which seemed so empty, for us. She would party hard all night and then go home in the morning and prepare for another long night of partying ahead of her. .
I enjoyed this talk especially because it is something that I know very little about. I always wondered how these people thought or if they even did think at all? It is now called a disease in which many suffer from and sadly enough many die from.
