Escaping through drugs
by Sherry Kirton
May 1999

Every drug is an attempt at escaping the pain/boredom. It doesn’t change the reality of the pain, it only delays it, but not for long. It’s like when your Mom says, “take out the trash, please”, and you say, “sure, but later”. Eventually the trash has piled up and it has become so terrible to smell that no one wants to get anywhere near it. Instead of having a little “fun” now, and then taking the trash out, you actually make everyone else around you feel more pain, and when you come out of it, you are still where you were only smellier and more tired.

Most of the time, I don’t want to take out my trash. I’m just tired alot. My friends, as good as they are, don’t have the strength to do it either because they have their own trash to deal with. We could either sit and cry about it or add more trash to the heap. We choose crying together. But that isn’t all. We also ask for help. Cause God is the only one big enough to deal with it all. The hard part is believing that He wants to deal with it since none of us want to.

He made us so that we could hang out with Him, but it is not much fun to do that when the trash is piled up and your friends are puking in the living room. All we ever have to do is ask Him to help us take it out. No escaping it, ‘cause escaping it is impossible.

If everyone took more drugs to escape the problems of this world, then everyone would be puking in the living room all at once and someone is gonna wake up to find the mess. Jesus came so that we could have life and have it overflowing, not have death, putrid, stinking, rotting, death, to the rim, but life. Give Him a try. He may ask you to try a little more, but He will also give you whatever you need to do it, as well as you get to have the friendship of the only one who will never leave your head in the toilet while He takes a smoke. God loves you. Stinking as we all are. Give Him a try.