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Relapsing After Ten Years of Sobriety

Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard. He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. Genesis 9:20 Whenever I meet someone who’s relapsed after years of sobriety, I want to know what happened. I prefer to think that anyone who’s maintained recovery…
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Boundaries: Protecting Myself

Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness. Genesis 9:23 When I got out of treatment back in 2014, I didn’t have a job. I’d lost my…
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Getting My Hands Dirty

Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Genesis 9:23 A buddy and I have been doing a jail Bible study at the local jail for the last several years. I’m thankful for the opportunity, but I’ve noticed that I’m…
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Point and Laugh or Climb in and Help

Noah drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. Genesis 9:21-22 We’ve temporarily got a skid-steer at our house, which I intended to use yesterday to do some landscaping. I’d never used…
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Me. Singing a Solo. In Church.

He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. Genesis 9:21-22 As a child, I had a decent singing voice, and inevitably, I got a short solo in one of our church’s…
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Sometimes, I Just Want a Drink

Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard. He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. Genesis 9:20-21 When we stop using drugs or alcohol, something must take its place. We used for a reason – those drugs did something for us. Now,…
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Afraid of a Flood

I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Genesis 9:13 As a child, I remember being terrified of a catastrophic flood – a fear which was likely prompted by Sunday School stories of Noah and the ark. To my four-year-old mind,…
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God Remembers

But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. Genesis 8:1 In my addiction, I went to God, begging for miraculous transformation. I hated what I was doing but I was addicted…
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Don’t Leave Me Alone with Him

Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. Genesis 7:23 I like people, but I like them in small quantities. I do great in small groups, but I struggle at big parties. It’s my own personal nightmare to be made to mingle and make small talk in a crowded room.…
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I Can’t Go to Treatment. I Have a Job.

He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. Genesis 7:23 Enslaved to my addiction, I knew I needed to go to treatment. But how could I just take a month off work? Someone would notice if I simply…
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