I tried to find a metaphor to describe how I view your life on drugs. It finally came to me as I sat at the ocean’s edge. I now realize that you have been riding riptides! For a long, long time, I have not known you or known where you have been. I could hear you but I could not see you. Now that I have this perception of where you have been, I cannot imagine why you have cravings to return to that deadly behavior…

 

*The Daily Reading is an extract from the SESH Book which forms part of Nar-Anon’s official literature.  To order this book and others, please use this link.