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One thing you never want to do is watch someone you love, that has fought so hard to beat addiction, throw everything away and sink back into a life that will m...ost likely lead to jail or death. You want to grab them and shake them and scream, "What are you doing?!?!" but, at some point, you realize that it wouldn't make a difference. So you sit back and watch the tragedy unfold as if you are watching a movie. Feeling helpless to stop it, feeling like you haven't done enough to help, even though you know only the addict can help themselves. Battling a drug and/or alcohol addiction is a beast for the person addicted and for the ones who love them. So l am asking you to stand with me in prayer for every family member, loved one and friend who has lost or is losing their battle with drugs and alcohol and for those who continue to conquer it! Put this on your page for one hour if you know someone who struggles with addiction. Many will be hesitant to copy and paste this. Some of you won't, and that's OK. See more

A father before he died said to his son: this is a watch your grandfather gave and this is more than 200 years old, but before I give it to you go to the watch... shop on the first street, and tell him I want to sell it, and see how much it is. He went and then came back to his father, and said, "the watchmaker paid 5 dollars because it's old. He said to him : go to the coffee shop. He went and then came back, and said: He paid $5 father. Go to the museum and show that watch. He went then came back, and said to his father They offered me a million dollars for this piece. The father said: I wanted to let you know that the right place values your value in a way right, don't put yourself in the wrong place and get angry if you don't. Who knows your value is who appreciates you, don't stay in a place that doesn't suit you". Know your worth!

Of all the African tribes still alive today, the Himba tribe is one of the few that counts the birth date of the children not from the day they are born nor con...ceived but the day the mother decides to have the child. When a Himba woman decides to have a child, she goes off and sits under a tree, by herself, and she listens until she can hear the song of the child who wants to come. And after she's heard the song of this child, she comes back to the man who will be the child's father, and teaches him the song. When they make love to physically conceive the child, they sing the song of the child as a way of inviting the child. When she becomes pregnant, the mother teaches that child's song to the midwives and the old women of the village, so that when the child is born, the old women and the people gather around him/her and sing the child's song to welcome him/her. As the child grows up, the other villagers are taught the child's song. If the child falls, or gets hurt, someone picks him/her up and sings to him/her his/her song. Or maybe when the child does something wonderful, or goes through the rites of puberty, then as a way of honoring this person, the people of the village sing his or her song. In the Himba tribe there is one other occasion when the "child song" is sang to the Himba tribesperson. If a Himba tribesman or tribeswoman commits a crime or something that is against the Himba social norms, the villagers call him or her into the center of the village and the community forms a circle around him/her. Then they sing his/her birth song to him/her. The Himba views correction not as a punishment, but as love and remembrance of identity. For when you recognise your own song, you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another. In marriage, the songs are sung, together. And finally, when the Himba tribesman/tribeswoman is lying in his/her bed, ready to die, all the villagers that know his or her song come and sing - for the last time that person's song. See more

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