3 addicts who love Jesus
Natalie stared at her half‐naked body in the bathroom mirror. “Uggh! I’m so fat. I hate myself,” she thought.
She stepped on the scale. It flashed 92. At five feet four inches tall, Natalie looked as emaciated as a prisoner in a WWII concentration
camp. She had all but stopped eating.
Her problem? An addiction to perfectionism.
Once her son hopped on the school bus, Karrie began to feel an adrenaline rush. Today she was going shopping! She told herself she’d buy one and only one outfit for her seven‐year‐old. She had made the same promise last week and broke it. “I can do it this time,” Karrie pep‐talked. Three hours and many shopping bags later, she collapsed on her couch and cried. “You can’t do anything right,” she muttered to herself.
Her problem? An addiction to shopping.
Suzanne picked up after her kids in a flurry. Ben would be home any minute, usually in a bad mood, and she didn’t want to make it worse. As she picked up toys and kept on eye on dinner, negative thoughts attacked her again. “I do everything I can to keep him happy. I wash his clothes. Make his dinner. Keep the kids quiet. Share his bed. But does he care about us? No! Just him and the remote and his twelve‐pack of beer. Sometimes I wish he were dead.” She put another block in the toy box.
Her problem? An addiction to people pleasing.
In general terms, an addiction is a recurring compulsion to engage in a specific activity, to the point of harm. Numerous types of addictions take a heavy toll on the lives of men, women and children in the United States and across the globe, including Christians. Click here to keep reading this article.
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