Healing Addiction
While listening to a podcast on addiction, I was reminded of all the physical causes associated with a addiction. The most interesting part was the fact that there is not even necessarily a physical trigger behind a particular addiction, and that the source is always a mental issue, a striving for satisfaction in mediums that range from social media, romance novels, and work, to alcohol, heroine, and “tranq’” (one of the more horrible illicit drugs on the streets today).
Although there seem to be new and more aggressive addictions today, addiction is an ancient problem, and there is a timeless cure that our readings on Wednesday, 2/26 at 7:30 PM will focus upon. The service will be held at Brookdale of Glen Ellyn in the Roosevelt Room, 60 Nicoll Ave., or click here for Zoom.
We also hope to have some testimonies at this meeting such as the following from our textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
DEPRAVED APPETITES OVERCOME
When Christian Science first came to me, or rather, when I first came to Christian Science, I did not have a very bad opinion of myself. I thought I was a pretty good fellow. I had no religious views. I seemed to be getting along as well as, if not better than, some who professed Christianity. So I drifted along until I was led to investigate Christian Science.
As I progressed in the understanding as gained from the study of both Science and Health and the Bible, and commenced to know myself, I found that a great change had been wrought in me. For fifteen years I had used tobacco, both chewing and smoking; for ten years I had been a victim of the drink habit, sometimes to excess; I was also addicted to profanity. Christian Science removed these appetites. A stomach trouble and other lesser ills, such as headache, a bad temper, an inordinate love of money, etc., disappeared under the same benign influence. Those things that seemed to be pleasure do not give me pleasure now. They were not real pleasure. I have lost nothing, I have sacrificed nothing; but I have gained everything, and not yet the whole, for I can see plenty yet to be done.
The condition of mind before investigating and after is as different as black and white. As Mrs. Eddy says, “Not matter, but Mind, satisfieth.” — G. B. P., Henry, S. D.
From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 678:25–21Photo by Mishal Ibrahim on Unsplash