In this week’s Baltimore Jewish Times Phil Jacobs, the Executive Editor, quotes a DEA agent who says that a teen once told him that when he takes Ecstacy he can feel his mother’s warm embrace.
Anyone getting involved in illegal drug use (or most any addictive behavior) is doing so because he is unable to find the warmth and love that he should be feeling from G-d. He, or she, turns to other activities in an attempt to fill the void left by an absence of G-d’s love. This is why acknowledging G-d is a fundamental component of all 12-Step programs.
For many people the awareness that G-d loves us is only superficial. They have not successfully integrated it into their psyche. To properly integrate it requires a much greater emphasis being put on this concept throughout all educational endeavors, from the home to elementary school and through adulthood. More effort needs to be expended in developing this concept in ways that can be understood and assimilated contemporarily.
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