My roommate recently began working at an addiction rehabilitation center. She comes home every weekend dying to tell us about the amazing people she works with. This past weekend, she had a conversation with one of the clients about how people seem to think those who deal with addictions are inherently bad people. But in reality, it's the substance that is bad, not the person.
This principle is true when thinking of any disease, trial, or imperfection. Someone addicted to pornography, someone who suffers from depression, someone who has a short temper - these are all hard things - these things do not define a person. An individual's worth was decided and defined long before any addiction, disease, or weakness came to fruition. And these issues don't change anything. Learn how to look beyond the illness, see who they really are, and love them. Let your love laser beam straight through the walls of depression, anxiety, weakness, and addictions until it strikes their heart. Let them feel a piece of heaven through you.
