Growing pot abstience

[Lindstrom]

It was five years ago i stopped using drugs. I found Jesus and everything worked fine, until one month ago when I moved back to my hometown.

I do not do drugs except alchohol. I do not drink so i feel intoxicated, but i drink a couple of bottles of our swedish "folkbeer" - containing 3.5% alcohol each day.

Like i said i do not drink myself intoxicated.

Eitherway since i moved back to my hometown after being away from town for five years, i get into the same system and the same thinking like i had five years ago when i stopped using drugs. But my problem aint from smoking or using weed, it is from growing.

I had a really good hobby when i was on to pot. I grew my own weed and sold it cheap.

It was a hobby at the same time as it was an addiction, and right now it isn't the addiction that is the problem, it is the hobby.

I had plans of developing a good weed that could be grown outdoors here in sweden when i did drugs. And now the old thinking has comed back. I look for good strains that can be crossbreed and good High pressure sodium lamps that i can use for starters.

The old thinking is back. and i need to find i new hobby.

To cover the money part i started to speculate in stocks. When you deal with weed you always loose and you always win some money. When you speculate in stocks you always win and you always loose some money. So the money interest is covered.

But now i need something to replace the intrest of growing a fine weed that suit the enviorment here in sweden.

I was thinking about becoming a botanic or something. i don't know.

It seems like the only thing i can do, is grow weed. thats all i can do, and i need to be reschooled into a more christian and healthy living, such as... whatever.

I don't know what to do..

Like i said, I DO NOT USE DRUGS NOR DO I GROW WEED - But got abstinence to grow it

 

[shye]

maybe you can grow somethingelse other then drugs, if you like agriculture.grow your own food.what other things do you like to do?

 

[Lindstrom]

Well. I like studying theology.

But right now it feels like the only thing i can do is grow pot. that's the only thing i do good.

Parhaps i should become a botanic, and grow other flowers. But that's not as exciting as breaking the law.

Eitherway, you shouldn't break the law. atleast not when you are christian. therefore, i need to learn how to do something else good. Parhaps i should become an evangelist or preist. I used to have dreams like that as a kid. But will i manage to preach just as good as i grow pot???

 

[draper]

I made a joke about how I think I have it a lot worse than you do with my addiction to buying & breeding lizards, but then I decided it may be considered inappropriate so I removed it.

 

[UnitynLove]

That is not all that you can do because the word of God say that "You can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens you." You just need to seek something else or continue in that field if you truly like it and become sucessful. Remeber Adams first job was to take care of the garden lol. Praying for you brother.

 

[Lindstrom]

But I Wont Do It!!!

 

[jerry ralph]

Alcohol is a drug...............denial is not a river in Egypt...................jerry

 

[rocklife]

www.wayofthemaster.com has some great tools to learn fun creative ways to evangelize and preach the gospel.

my favorite and very meaningful hobby is evangelism, especially with literature, bible tracts, etc.

click on Get Equipped, then Listen to Audio lessons, I personally like and recommend #4, also Hell's Best Kept Secret and True/False conversion. It is encouraging to hear funny and truthful stories from this preacher, I was really encouraged by it even more in evangelism, also to hear real practical advice how to do it and etc. anybody can give out a gospel tract- even secretly, its easier than you think, and the rewards are stored in heaven .

 

[Lindstrom]

I feel alot better, and i stopped thinking about.

I got some sleeping problems, but that will be better soon.

Alchohol is a drug, yes i know. But when i stopp using alchohol and tobacco i am going to do it by my self and with the help of God.

Everything has it's time.

 

[rocklife]

another thing that might help get your mind into thinking of other things, is listening to the Bible on tape. Walkmen bible tapes really helped changed my thinking a lot, I used to think of revenge on people, (before I was a christian, I put revenge into action, I had a lot of anger). Listening and learning the Bible, especially New Testament helps a lot, renew our minds. I also like bible comic books, like the Picture Bible by Iva Hoth (I think). And studying early christians like from Foxe's Book of Martyrs, heavy stuff, thinking of what martyrs from christian history went through really helps put things in perspective, torture and death for Jesus, He is worthy, even with that hard stuff.