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How Addiction Impacts Trust
Finding Hope Family Support Groups
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Finding Hope Team
How Addiction Impacts Trust
When we love someone with a substance use disorder, we quickly lose all trust. I say it all the time, you lose trust in bucketfuls and gain it back in teaspoons. But today I want to ask you, where do you put your trust?
We should not put our trust in earthly things, but rather put our trust in God. But how many times have we tried to do God's job for Him? How many times have we gotten in His way for His perfect plan?
I remember standing in my friend’s kitchen crying when my husband was at the peak of his addiction, but I also remember telling her that I knew God had a plan and I believed someday I would get to help another wife going through this same storm. What I didn’t know was that I would quit my dream job as a kindergarten teacher and work for a non-profit organization where I get to give HOPE to so many families. God does have a plan, and we must trust His plan.
One Finding Hope member said, “I pray for God to close the right doors and open the right doors for my son.” That statement made me think. If we start closing doors for our loved ones on our own, are they the right doors that God has planned to be shut? If we start opening doors for our loved ones, are they the right doors that God has planned to be open?
Each day, each hour, each minute, each second, place your loved one back in God’s hands and trust in God’s perfect plan. We must let go and let God.
“Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.” Psalm 35:7
