My Take: Break the Addiction

This is my response to "Josh Howard Lies Less Than Other Pot Smokers" on ESPN.com by Henry Abbott
These drugs are illegal. It does not matter if "everyone else is doing it" in the NBA .However, in reality, every body's not doing it. Athletes that do drugs(and drink alcohol) are bad examples for younger athletes in high school and college who are pressured by smoking everyday. They say no to it because it will effect there grades, quicks, memory, heart, lungs, and there own credibility to themselves. Others fall into it because they don't want to feel like a looser, a square, or outcast.But in reality the ones who say no, quit using it, or never put themselves in a position to use it are the true succers. Howard's statement imply that he believes that it is perfectly fine, but it is not. Howard makes smoking a every day, OK thing, but it is not. We know that most NBA athletes grew up around drugs. Falling into that life style of drinking alcohol and abusing drugs puts a person into a category of weak minded, selfish, insecure, and depressed about something that that person did not get over in there life. Having those drugs even in the same room that you are in can get you behind bars. But some looked at athletes as the ones who overcame street life and forsook all that they thought they loved. I just hope and pray that Howard changes his mind about drugs before it is too late. I don't want to judge him, but I do hope that he and others can come out of there drug addiction to be example for kids in the streets, in the city, and in the field. In closing, the love for the game will cause you to let that kind of life go. By the way, not every body's doing it.




So ask yourself, "How do I break the addiction?" Well there's only one answer, JESUS. Ask Jesus to save you and change you today because tomorrow's not promised! Turn your life to CHRIST today! Watch HIM work(cleanse you) and fight your battles so you don't have to!

What it Really Means to Love: Love the Game[Series What it Really Means to love]

Love, for some, has no meaning. To others it is merely a feeling. While few will say love is something you choose to do. So, what does it mean to love? Is it a feeling . how do I show love.
To love something or someone completely and truly is saying no matter what they do, or say, or what they may cause, I will still show kindness to that individual. Real love can not be turned off. And if a person love something they would do something that could separate the two apart but will stay devoted to that love.
In the game, in sports or an any field for that matter, one must stay committed to practice, studying, and hard work to learn about that particular study. What springs one to study and work almost endlessly is the love it. One who actually loves a thing will not do something that will deter the goal that can be reached in performing that task. And many will agree that in order to do well in sports , one must love that sport. To love the game is saying," I will not let anything stop for being able to play my game or to reach my life goal." This also is now to say, " I will not let my feeling, getting bad grades drugs , alcohol, premarital sex, abusive relationships, bad relationships or any thing like that get in my way from playing(loving) this sport because I love it!" If you can not say this about the sport you play and everyone else,you really don't love it or them. In fact the love of the game would cause you not to care about what people think of you. If you do not not go hard while practicing, that person will never achieve his or her full potential. The it is the same to same if a person gets involved in gangs, drugs, alcohol, premarital sex, abusive relationships, bad relationships, and earning bad grades is also holding them self back from reaching their highest potential. These things stop athletes from reaching their goals. So, if you feel you can't shake one of these things named or any other habit, go back to the ONE who loves us all unconditionally
So if a person really loves something or someone, one would not let anything get in the way of them love it,