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The saddest part about drug addiction is not just the addict, it’s their families. If the addict is going through hell, their family is going through worse. A mom waiting for her son to come back home, not knowing where he is. A grandmother watching her grandson overdose over and over again, until there is no more than a shell of a person. A father watching his child die on the street.
I sat in tears listening to the stories of the brothers on the island, some who shared that they have been on drugs for 20-30 years. They watched their own friends and family die from an overdose and yet they keep going back to drugs to fill the pain and the emptiness.
“Chiu-gor” one of the staff members, he was the one taking care of me on dawn island, and my guitar music buddy, he would share his testimony with me, he said to me “at the point you see your own brother die from drugs, you have to reflect and ask yourself how did it all come down to this?”
But that’s where Jesus comes in. At our most desperate time. At our rock bottom. Nothing is wasted, we have made our mistakes in life but Jesus redeems it all.
The miracle on dawn island is that these men have found more than freedom from drugs, they have found the kind of peace, joy and love that the world could never give. They have found Jesus.
若 有 人 在 基 督 裡 ， 他 就 是 新 造 的 人 ， 舊 事 已 過 ， 都 變 成 新 的 了 。
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation: The old has gone, the new is here!
-2nd Corinthians 5:17
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