MY SISTER CALLED ME WITH A MOST UNCOMMON QUESTION...
When I answered the telephone from a long distance call from my sister she asked me a most uncommon question. She asked me with curiosity ..."Have you ever been drunk?" I admit I was a bit stunned. The reason she asked she said was that she had attended some kind of seminar at work where that question came about. It may have been a moral issue of discussion, I not quite sure. Well, I answered her honestly. Yes I had. Then she asked about how many times, was it less than 5 times? I told her only about twice in my life. She of course surprised everyone in her office discussion when she told them she had never been drunk.
The arousal here in my thought process is how so many people get drunk everyday, every week, and every weekend. Social drinking is for some having a good time, usually people who drink socially are not considered alcolhics. Most time social drinkers don't get drunk. It's when the drinking exceeds higher levels of consumption. Have you ever been drunk?
Drunk drivers take lives on the road, and some drunk persons are abusive in relationships. Reform for alcoholics are available, and the odds are about 50/50 recovery for them. However, most recovering alcolhics remain to state once an alcoholic always one. The thing too about alcohol is that sometimes it can lead to heavier and more dangerous drug uses. Almost every black family either knows or have a member of his or her family who abuses alcohol. Alcohol hurts many black families, not only that just familes in general. We find that abuse of subtances in the black community is not an uncommon knowlege at all.
I was prompted to think from my sister's telephone call, sometimes when we drink too much we hurt others in our family, home and communities. The only solution I find is never make drinking as part of your answer to social or econmic problems. Some would say that's easier said than done. Perhaps, but it's not impossible to say NO.
Titus 2:11-12:
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.
The arousal here in my thought process is how so many people get drunk everyday, every week, and every weekend. Social drinking is for some having a good time, usually people who drink socially are not considered alcolhics. Most time social drinkers don't get drunk. It's when the drinking exceeds higher levels of consumption. Have you ever been drunk?
Drunk drivers take lives on the road, and some drunk persons are abusive in relationships. Reform for alcoholics are available, and the odds are about 50/50 recovery for them. However, most recovering alcolhics remain to state once an alcoholic always one. The thing too about alcohol is that sometimes it can lead to heavier and more dangerous drug uses. Almost every black family either knows or have a member of his or her family who abuses alcohol. Alcohol hurts many black families, not only that just familes in general. We find that abuse of subtances in the black community is not an uncommon knowlege at all.
I was prompted to think from my sister's telephone call, sometimes when we drink too much we hurt others in our family, home and communities. The only solution I find is never make drinking as part of your answer to social or econmic problems. Some would say that's easier said than done. Perhaps, but it's not impossible to say NO.
Titus 2:11-12:
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.
Loved your finshed statement Irma. Thank you for summing it up.