The Light Has Gone Out!

When you look at electrical things you can see that they are made of small and big wires, cheap and expensive all lined up. Until the current runs through them there will be no light.

This quote from Mother Teresa reminds me of some of the people I know. They have allowed the light to be turned off. The current no longer runs through them. The sins they entertain have broken fellowship with Christ, they no longer let Him flow through them. What a sad existence to separate yourself from the one who made you.

I got a call from someone. I wouldn't really call them a friend, but she calls me to talk and to cry sometimes. I listen and encourage her. Tonight when she called she was telling me how she has nothing to live for. She is on all kinds of medications for her back and all kinds of ailments. She was telling me the meds were making her gain weight and she was depressed.

Tonight as I listened I decided to tell her what she needed to hear. I first told her I remembered when she used to be a drug addict and a prostitute. I remember when she accepted Christ several years ago. She quit the drugs and alcohol, started going to church and went to school to be a beautician. She had perfect credit, a good job, lots of clients who were christians and she was serving others.

Then slowly but surely she started to party again. It wasn't long until she was back to her old habits, going to clubs, smoking weed, taking xanax, drinking. Slowly but surely the life has drained out of her. She stopped attending church, then hurt herself on the job. She went on long term disability, then when that was over, faked a back injury and went out again. This time she went in the hosptial and had a test done on her back. They put contaminated die into her and she couldn't walk for three months. She was bedridden in the hospital.

I remember her crying and saying God was punishing her because she faked the injury. Now here she is several years later, no job, no car, hooked on perscription meds. She is about 45 yrs old and spends most of her days in bed, she is depressed.

So tonight, I told her that I was not saying she didn't have some of the illnesses that the doctors claim she has, but I too had been told I had this or that and I went all natural and didn't sucumb to it. I don't have any medical problems today. I just refuse to give in and I do whatever it takes to stay healthy. I told her she needed to get up, go to the Natatorium with me every morning where we will swim and do water aerobics. I told her she needed to leave the booze alone and look for natural alternatives to the meds she was taking. I said, you know I could enjoy a Marquerita or a drink with a meal, but I choose not to. In her case, she has an addiction and definately needs to choose not to.

I asked if she wanted her life tomorrow to be like it is today and she said no. So I said, it is time to do something about it. I reminded her it was her life and she was killing herself a little every day, she was existing, not living. She agreed. So, I asked her if she was willing to put the brakes on, get up and pull herself up and do whatever it took to claim her life back.

I advised her to get into church, reminding her she will have to overcome the flesh. That most of the things we should do, we don't want to do, but we need to do it anyway. I told her I would be there for her only if she made a committment to give 100% taking it one day at a time.

So now I wait, if she is serious about getting her life back, I will help her. I told her if she continued where she is now, she will get worse not better. So she had to decide.

To keep a lamp burning we have to put oil in it.

Work: Quotes by Mother TeresaTo keep a lamp burning we have to put oil in it.