INTERVENTION !!!!!

As I sat down at 9 PM tonight to put the baby to sleep tonight, I had to find something to watch on the TV. I went and surfed through the channels and found nothing to watch. I went through them again and this show here pictured on the left caught my attention. The show is called "Intervention." It is a reality based show on A & E, that does Interventions on drug addicts. I've seen it a couple of times and liked it, but I forget what day and time it comes on, so it's been awhile since I've seen it.

Tonight's episode featured a 29 year old man named Tim. Tim was an interesting story to me for some reason. He was basically a child prodigy, he learned how to play piano by ear at age 10, and boy could he play. He then took on other instruments like the drums and guitar. He was going to be going places in his career. He became a producer for some upcoming pop performers and things were going well for him. The money was rolling in and he had lots of clients to work with. As things got too busy for him he wanted to escape, to get away from it all. So he became addicted too crack cocaine. This was not his first experience with this drug. He began trying marijuana and LSD at age 16 and at age 18 he started using crack-cocaine. But then he quit all the drugs for awhile. Then he became the producer and got big and got hooked.

People like that get under my skin. They have talent and a great career that most people would love to have and then they blow it by becoming an addict. What a shame! Mostly, Tim suffers from a rough childhood. His parents were never home they were in a band and were gone most of the time. Then they discovered he had OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and things got really bad quick for him. It was left untreated for two years, so he became a victim of this disorder. He said he would just do things over and over, like pacing in the same spot, tying his shoes again and again. They eventually gave him Prozac and it solved his condition, so he decided to live his life to the fullest. He did! He became a heavy drinker and a drug addict.

This episode of intervention was a bad one. He was very strung out on the crack-cocaine. When he was out of the drug he was uncontrollable, to the point of threatening his girlfriend and her parents. He ended up walking through a marshy wet area covered in mud and landing himself in storm drain in the middle of nowhere. He was calling his girlfriend saying he was going to kill himself and that he just wanted out of life. The producer of the show had to talk him out of suicide and pull him out of the muddy storm drain. What a sad story. The choice this kid made to smoke a pointless drug and want to end it all. His life had hit the downward-spiral and almost ground-zero!

The intervention finally took place his parents, girlfriend and her parents were there to get this fun loving,brilliant person his life back. He agreed to get help and off he went for 60 days of rehab. after 45 days he had been clean and made a video tape for girlfriend. He wrote a song about his life and his situation. He didn't look like the same person, he was fresh and renewed for life. He left the rehab and went back home. But one month later he relapsed and went back to his one true love drugs.

How powerful these drugs are, to control a person's life and change them forever. I feel sorry for Tim, I will pray for him tonight and the millions who are in the same boat. I pray my children don't ever come around such stuff. I know they won't because I will go APE on them if they do. I remember watching a nature show one time about the Silver back Gorilla. They are a violent breed when confronted in the wild. I would be the silver back gorilla if my kids ever get addicted to any drug. My point for this whole thing is this. Parents need to be in their kids business, mine were. We can't fear them being mad at us for being nosy to keep them safe. I don't think Tim's parents were awful and not caring. But we need to be around them a lot, and not just let them run around and do whatever. Know who your kids are hanging out with, be close to them and get them into the church. Show them the best way to live their life. The only way is through Jesus Christ and his Church. Intervene in their life before you have to add the TION at the end.