When high is not high enough

I once read in a magazine about a young woman who allowed drugs to waste 20 years of her life. She started using drugs at the age of 15. She eventually got married and had two kids, but she was not able to stop using drugs and her husband left her for another women. Her kids sometimes visited their father, since they all are no longer living together. On one of such visits their father's girlfriend attacked one of them. She used her cigarette light to burn one of the boys' foot so badly that when they returned home and their mum saw it she was so devasted. She cried like never before and from that day she took a brave decision to go into a rehabilitation centre, because she knew no one would have been able to do that to her child if she had been responsible enough.

These are the type of stories you hear anytime drug abuse is mentioned. Many people have died because of it and many are still destroying themselves. A lot of kids have been disformed in many ways because of drugs used irresponsibly by their parents. What most of them fail to see is that drugs can never chase your problems away rather it will only complicate things for you. You conquer your problem only when you are able to live with it, only when you are able to stare it squarely in the face and feel comfortable with it. What is the use of getting high for 15 minutes in other to get rid of your problem only to have the same problem sit in your arm chair with a mug of coffee in its hand waiting for you to become sober again so that you two can continue where you stopped. Know this; the drug you take does not affect the problem in any way, rather you are the one who is been wasted while your problem grow fat and more complicated.

There is a vacuum in our lives that must be filled by God for one to be complete and fulfilled. Some people try to fill this vacuum with sex, drugs, alcohol etc, looking for fulfillment and satisfaction in these things, but they never succeeded. You may get temporal satisfaction but it will never last. Just like St. Augustine said: "Our soul is made by God and it can never rest until it rests in God." Why not try God today, approach him with that problem and tell him to take it away from you and see what he will and can do. Drugs can make you suicidal. But suicide is not the best option. Where are you going to go when you die? How are you so sure rest will be there, since you have not been there before? How are you so sure death will solve the problem? What if the problem follows you there, what then will you do since you cannot kill yourself twice? There is always a way out of every situation and the right way is Jesus who said that He is the Way, the Truth and Life and no one can come to God except through him. There is no reason to give up. If today is strong enough to come to you, be strong enough to face it, not only on your own but with Jesus who is always there to lend you a helping hand. Turning to drugs will only destroy you.

Marring marriage

The first marriage took place in the garden of Eden between our first parents, Adam and Eve. God was the minister who presided over that wedding. God Himself blessed the wedding and told them to go ahead and multiply and subdue the earth.

Marriage! What does this one word mean to you and me? How is this one word affecting our lives? One can not speak of marriage without talking about family. Both of them go hand in hand. Marriage leads to family and That is why marriage is a very important issue, because family is where the crown of the society lies. That is the reason we should be more careful with marriage and treat it with respect. You do not get married just because you feel like it, you get married because you know you have what it takes to face its challenges and stay married. Marriage is not just a fairytale. There is no happily ever after in marriage. You should not hope to live happily ever after with someone who is flawed like you. You should remember that he or she has both good and bad character. So if you are entering marriage hoping that it will be for you like it was for Cinderella. Sweetheart! you are joking.

Let us face the truth, shall we? There is bound to be trouble and no matter how you try to hide from it it will always find you out. The bills will come, there will be arguments which may sometimes end in a bitter row, there will be children problem, the dishwasher will become faulty and eventually stop working someday, the car will need to be changed someday, even the nannies will leave someday and the list is endless. So tell me, with all these problems that will surface someday, how can one live happily ever after. Let us face reality and forget the sugar-coated information we receieve from romantic movies and novels.

If you take a look around you, you will see that marriage is speedily losing its worth and the effect it is having on us is also seen everywhere in the society. There is nothing wrong with marriage. The only problem is with us, we allow what we see in movies and read in novels to control the way we feel about marriage. But all hope is not lost. Marriage may not be a bed of roses, but neither is it a bed of thorns. Roses are beautiful, yet they have thorns. If you do not want the thorns to hurt you, you will handle them carefully. That is how it is with marriage. When handled with respect and care, marriage can be the sweetest thing on earth. Marriage is the right choice you will ever make in life, because if it is worthless as most people paint it to be God would not have presided over the first marriage and He would not have blessed it either. So if you are preparing for marriage, go ahead and do it with joy, but make sure you understand the true meaning of it.