You know I've been thinking about Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Heath Ledger and other brilliant successful people who have (inadvertently) killed themselves with drugs and I keep wondering why... why? It seems like they had everything... looks, money, fame, in some cases even an oscar. Gee, what more can you need.
But being who I am and thinking the way I do, I am inclined to answer myself, "They needed God." Still, that's just too pat an answer because, to be honest, too many avowed Christians are also dying from drug addiction. So it isn't just a disease of those who do not know Jesus.
I do believe, however, that my own personal relationship with Christ has thus far kept me from ending up as another statistic. I am inclined toward that sort of thing - I think it runs in my family. I think there is a certain yearning that leads to addiction but once addiction has set in, it has a life of its own.
Overall, the motivations and workings of another's mind will ever be mysteries to us. These examples happen to be very sad mysteries.
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