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Mat,
I think we can relate responsibility to lack of drug using as such...
Christians aspire to responsibility because of God's Word, but aspiring to
be responsible does not make you a Christian.
Same goes for responsibility in relationship to drug use. I knew very
responsible kids in high school, good grades, in family businesses with
responsibilities and etc. but smoked toked and drank just the same as those
that didn't have responsibility. I was a responsible kid too but drank,
smoked, but laid off drugs for the most part. I think it is the reason we
are responsible and not responsibility itself that might make a difference.
Brad
At 12/19/2003 on Friday, Matt wrote:
>Hi, I am always crowing about how if folks had their priorities together and
>were responsible they wouldn't involve themselves with drugs.
>I just throught I'd throw in that there are gray areas as well.
>For instance, when I smoked pot in highschool it was out of pure boardom and
>a need for friends and probably a little bit from the fact that drug use was
>so rampid in my family.
>It had little to do with being irresponsible. Then again, at that age I
>wasn't given much to be responsible for either. Perhaps if we are to give
>kids responsibility little by little and praise them for doing well with
>their responsibilities it could help?
>I am just wondering aloud now as this message is forming as I write.
>I did not think it out completely.
>Yes, if we were given responsibilities and involved in life little by little
>and seen as an individual person instead of someone's kid, it might help
>some.
>The kid would, little by little become a person with a standing in family
>relationships and in a comunity. Of course, the danger is, the drugs are
>out in that comunity and sometimes in the families as well so you still have
>to watch and be aware of the people around your kids to know what kind of
>enfluences are around them.
>For instance, my brother and his wife gave me my first drag of pot. These
>were irresponsible child like people who were living in our home at the time
>and they were in their early 20s at the time.
>I'd be interested in your thoughts on this ramble Phil.
>I had your situation in mind when I started it but now in looking back at my
>own situation I just don't know.
>I guess drugs can come into our lives in many ways but most of the problem
>is in that we form friendships with people and one of the bonds we have in
>those friendship is a shared use of the same drug. I did not like losing my
>friends everytime I would decide to quit but I finally got tired of that
>dance and I went back to being a loner with few friends and nothing to do
>again.
>By the time I got to college I had met Terri and she had told me she
>wouldn't have anything to do with me if I started smoking again, so it
>wasn't hard to say no when the guys across the hall were smoking.
>I hope I am not bugging people on this list with these rambles.
>Not a lot to do with religion, more of a soul searching while I study
>christianity and it's place in my life.
>
>Matt
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