06/24/2015 BREAKING CHILDHOOD ADDICTIONS
1 Corinthians 13:11 It’s like this: when I was a child I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I became a man [a woman] my thoughts grew far beyond those of my childhood, and now I have put away the childish things.
[Living Bible translation]
Definition: Addiction is an uncontrollable compulsion to repeat a behavior regardless of its negative consequences
SODA/POP “back then”
If you are like me, you probably recall drinking a lot of soda as a kid. In fact, soda, especially in the summer time on hot days, was a common household beverage. You may have memories of going to the neighborhood store to buy a soda (or of taking the empties back for their deposit, if you are a bit older), or stopping by the store after school to get a soda, or loading down the grocery cart with the weekly “six pack” or ‘case” or “carton.” No holiday (e.g., the 4th of July, Easter, Christmas or Thanksgiving) and no family gathering (e.g., wedding, funeral, birthday party, reunion) or even church events was complete without a table or tub full of ice and soda. Most of us can sing the old soda commercials from out childhood (e.g., “I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.....”) as easily, if not easier, than we can sing some of the old hymns of the church. Soda pop was part of “the stuff” of childhood. Back then, no one gave much thought to the nutritional value of drinking soda or its harmful effects. Americans just guzzled it down. We never thought of it as an addiction.