Inclement Weather

When you screw up royally by getting addicted to something that's bad for you, you’re heading into a perfect storm. Illicit sex, drugs, alcohol, nicotine and the like will become a violent wind at your back, a downpour of rain that will drown you and give you a life that is colder than ice. You should pray when this happens, because you won't get out by yourself. Your self is what got you into this mess, so you will need help outside of yourself to get out. So start with a prayer asking for Him for faith! God always answers that prayer. Add to your prayer a request for humility, truth and love and hope. Hope for a miracle from God. Running away won’t get you far. Nor will the false hope that nobody sees what you are doing! God always sees you. 

You may ask, "Can God help me, will he help me, will God give me  a miracle?" The answer is the same: "The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor." (Matthew 11:5). You'll just have to trust God and follow Him and accept the help he gives you in whatever form it takes. God often puts people in your path as a conduit or pipeline of his blessings coming to you. 

It may take some time to get completely out of the storm you're in. May God save you from your storm.

Always Expect a Train! (when you engage in risky behavior)

There is a saying used by a railroad that says, “Always expect a train!” Trains don’t come after us or go looking for us to flatten us; usually we just get in their way. When we are on the tracks the train will do what a train does and barrel right over and through you and kill you. There are circumstances in life that are like that.  When we get into some risky behaviors, get addicted to drugs, alcohol, money, sex you name it; we are putting ourselves right onto the train tracks of life.  I won’t say something may happen to you when you least expect it. Instead I'll say the expected will happen because you should always expect a train!  If you haven't been hit by a train yet, you will be. Just as long as you are doing the wrong things and are playing in the wrong places.