Bringing souls unto Christ
I don’t have any pictures today, but I just wanted to share a few thoughts on why I choose to be open about my path to recovering from a pornography addiction.
I was at my Tuesday night 12-step PASG group meeting last night, and I shared how one individual had recently told me “Bury your past and never refer to it again. Don’t share your story with your kids. Don’t talk about it with anybody. Just move forward. It’s not who you are, it doesn’t identify you.”
And the overwhelming response I got was that true it is not who I am but it is part of my life story; a part of my life story that I cannot bury deep into the ground.
That this addiction THRIVES IN SECRECY. WE BELIEVE A LIE: THAT WE ARE ALONE, AND DIRTY, AND UN-WORTHY TO BE LOVED. I testify to you that this is not true! You are not alone.
I will have an opportunity tomorrow night to sit down with a stake president at BYU. I will have a chance to share with him my story and be introduced by the BYU ARP mission coordinator Elder Robert Cummings. My hope, our hope, is that I will have an opportunity to speak to an Elder’s Quorum in this stake, share my story, and that by doing so individuals in this ward will feel the Atonement working in their lives and begin the process of getting help.
I am just one individual. But I know that I do not stand alone. I know that there are many out there who would be willing to and perhaps even excited to share their stories too if they just saw other people doing it. I am committed to being at least one of those people who shares and leads and assists in converting and bringing souls unto Christ!
I feel so blessed to be a recovering addict! The scripture in Ether 12:27 says that weaknesses can become strengths, and I am beginning to feel so grateful for this weakness that I have had because it is now becoming a great strength to me and to my family and to the many people around me.
The Life of Duncan 