Recovery Advice

Overcoming addictions is a battle on many fronts; first the spiritual and then the practical. One of the simple but practical components is to avoid idle time, isolation and boredom. 

Sweet, wholesome, healthy recreation is important; and if it's denied, it will cause us to be moody and live in a dull melancholy, and along these same lines, it leaves us grim and comfortless in despair. In addition, there can come a huge infectious troop of mental uneasiness that are enemies of a happy life. God has spread a vast table of wholesome pleasures in food, sport and life-preserving rest, and His Spirit will help us balance the pursuit of wholesome pleasures with duty. 

Shakespeare said this so eloquently -- 

"Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair; and at her heels, a huge infectious troop of pale distemperatures, and foes to life."