Author: Scott

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. Genesis 6:8 We all have learned behaviors which stimulate our brains to release dopamine – the neurotransmitter that surges when we engage in some activity we enjoy: eating a donut, having sex, or smoking. It’s this dopamine surge that feels really good and drives us…
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So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” Genesis 6:7 After my last relapse, part of me understood that I could lose my career.…
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The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.  Genesis 6:5-6 I know that very few of my…
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Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” Genesis 6:3 I found recovery and began practicing addiction medicine during the fentanyl wave of the opioid epidemic, which claims around 70,000 lives each year. The tragedy of these overdose deaths is that…
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Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?” Genesis 4:9 In blogging about something that happened several years ago – my addiction and subsequent disaster – it’s easy to refer to my flaws in past tense only. The problem with this…
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If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it. Genesis 4:7 A couple of months back, our garage door was left open one day, allowing in a chipmunk. Once in,…
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The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. Genesis 6:4 Usually, those who attend a faith-based recovery meeting, whether in jail or at the coffee shop, are there for the right reasons. They…
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Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died. Genesis 5:5 I’ve often said that I’m thankful for the miserable consequences of my addiction. Without consequences, I’d still be enslaved. What if I’d have never found recovery though? What if I got to the end of my days only to find…
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And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, “God has appointed for me another offspring instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.” . . . At that time people began to call upon the name of the LORD.  Genesis 4:25-26 When I was just…
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Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, you have driven me today away from the ground, and from your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.” Genesis 4:13-14 I’d love to say…
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