Testimony of Healing March 30, 2015 Issue

Healed of alcoholism

Cynthia Deupree

The years of my youth were difficult because my father was a heavy drinker. Family life was unpredictable, and there was mental and physical abuse in our home. I was always on edge, as the atmosphere was not pleasant and there was little joy.

It was accepted in the family that the problem was clearly the fault of my alcoholic father. He had overindulged in liquor since his teenage years, and nothing had ever helped to free him from this behavior.

Years later, in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, on a Wednesday night, I heard a remarkable testimony. A woman gave thanks for the healing of her husband’s alcoholism. I listened intently as she described difficult times trying to deal with her husband’s drinking. One night, as she wholeheartedly and humbly turned to God in prayer, she got an answer. The thought came to her that the problem she needed to address was not her husband’s, but hers. In her own thinking, she needed to correct the false belief that anyone could be an alcoholic. How could she label someone an alcoholic when all of God’s children are made in His image and likeness? God never created an alcoholic, so how could she attach that erroneous concept to God’s man?

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