Christian Treatment

Varghese used to visit us when our mother was alive. He used to work with drug addicts and alcoholics of our town, finding them, bringing them to some Christian rehabs, help them recover from their addiction and lead a normal life. Varghese too had some demons in his life earlier, which he had struggled hard to over come. Through the ministries of Potta, he had found god and has stayed strong in the love of god ever after.

His method of operation was to have a network of Charismatic prayer group member in finding friends and families who might need a helping hand to save a family member or a friend or a neighbor. In the course of time, many priests and lay brothers had set up de addiction centers through Jesus, which was fondly called the christian treatment.

Recently I came across the Christian Rehabs in America and learned about the wonderful job they were doing in saving lives. Only then I realized the importance of the selfless work Varghese and people like him were doing.

No one gets into addiction knowingly, they have some serious problems in their lives from which they want to run off or need some consolation. Christian treatment helps these hopeless to realize that its not the substance of addiction which is in control, but the Creator who made this whole world who is in control of their lives and the whole world.

They are initiated into prayers and a new way of thinking. Once they are in a way of recovery and out of these rehabs, the network of the prayer groups take them over and help them stay in the lord. But I do doubt the infrastructures that are involved in these programs now. The individuals and the organizations that are running these programs are way short in means that they could not help loosing some saved lives from relapse.

It has been proved the christian treatment is the best form of recovery from addiction the world over, its high time, government showed some interest in these programs, now run on the good heart of some priests and persons like Varghese, to take it to the next level.

Addiction, is not just to drugs and alcohol, it can be food and sex too. In our society, we speak of drug and alcohol, what about the other two. Not speaking of it does not mean, it does not exist. There will be folks struggling with it, not knowing the cause of their behavior, thus falling prey to the pressures of society and ruining themselves and those around them.

Let us hope, very soon, we have a system which will look into these kind of behavioral abnormalities. That would help the society a lot, both the serving and served.