Since I am a stay at home mom, my work place. I was confronted with what a few other moms were doing. This was when I was much younger ,but some would drink, another was having an affair. I felt trapped as to reviel would bring alot of harm to so many. But doing nothing I felt a part of the sin. The drinkers, I tried to promote how I believed drinking was destructive. The one having the affair, I realised she would not change, she was preditory. So I spoke to the man, he was married himself. Their were issues in his marriage but I spent time telling him the steps to healing. Thankfully he sought help and their marraige is solid now. The woman that was preditory, moved away, leaving her family behind.The biggest lesson I learned was that sometimes by doing nothing you sin. It is still always difficult to know what to do but even if it is praying that is a step away from the sin.
God bless, pickles
It is difficult to maintain a Godly lifestyle when many businesses sell items you may not approve of as
a Christian. The usual items like smoking and alcohol they will buy no matter who is working there. I
have a personal issue with lottery tickets since the lottery robs hundreds to pay one person.
Studies have proven the main purchasers of lottery tickets are the low income and many are not
well educated so they see the lottery as their way out. But they don't realize the $5 - $20 winning
tickets they receive are ploys to get them to spend more. For every $10 the lottery allows a
person to win, statistics show they earn back $20 - $50. Those not educated on how the lottery
uses these ploys to entrap those that are weaker have been known to spend their paychecks
buying lottery tickets because they are convinced they will win a lot of money but are unaware
that the odds of hitting a big win are over 40,000:1 making it almost impossible to win.
I know people that can barely pay their bills but because they don't understand the lottery and
think they will get rich, they hurt their family by using money needed by their family to buy lottery
tickets. There is legislation by some states to ban lotteries because of the destructive effect
they have on families mostly composed of low income, not well educated individuals.
My comment about lottery tickets above was a general comment about the lottery and not anyone
working where lottery tickets are sold. Just like alcohol and smoking, they will buy these and lottery
tickets regardless of who is working there.
It is a shame that the lottery is so focused on running the lottery scam that many families are
destroyed and children are going hungry due to their parent's addiction to buying lottery tickets.
I have never bought a lottery ticket. I can not support the abuse of the less educated by stealing
their money and the tens of thousands of hungry children that go without due to their parents
obsession with buying lottery tickets. Lottery tickets are just a different spin to use gambling to
rob those that will not usually gamble because they don't have the money to lose but do not
realize the lottery is gambling in another form that disarms their protective mechanism that
would usually stop them from gambling if it were blatant gambling.
Once you are near a family being destroyed by lottery tickets and watch with your own eyes the
destruction it brings and the struggle it places on innocent children that cry for food from parents
that are obsessed with the lottery, you will never see the lottery as just a game any longer. It
is a destructive force that words struggle to describe. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand
words. But once you see the destructive force of the lottery destroying a family, those pictures
say much more than a thousand words and haunt you for a long time.