Lord, forgive us weary sinners.

Hi. It's been awhile.
I just got done reading a book. It's called Go Ask Alice. Maybe you've heard of it. It's a journal of a girl, I believe it's set in the 70's. This book takes you on a journey through her addiction to drugs her worst hours and her best highs. It describes every recovery with gruesome detail and every downfall in complete truth.

I've never understood the attraction, with drugs, but now i understand a whole lot more. I think this book was good for me. It's weird how events in life line up. I feel almost like i have experienced her life and I think I needed that understanding.

One thing i noticed in the book is that every time she came home from an awful drug-led excursion, her parents accepted her and even celebrated her return with relieved, open, loving arms. It reminds me a lot of the parable of the lost son.

I think it's one of the most beautiful things in the world whenever people disregard their own pride and accept people even if they have been betrayed by them.

we let our pride get in the way of this mentality, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me." Those are the words of Our Savior.

Why not love each other despite our experiences along the way of this life.

I think that something we forget a lot, too is that we're all we've got. All we've got is one another. We all live through a lot of the same things and suffer through this life on this evil earth. If we don't look past our differences and encourage one another, we're bound to fail.