{"id":340846,"date":"2024-05-13T12:05:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T16:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=340846"},"modified":"2024-05-13T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T21:10:17","slug":"filling-the-void-with-addictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/filling-the-void-with-addictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Filling the Void With Addictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a shattered childhood, Miguel sought to fill the inner void with addictions.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I\u00a0suffered a lot since I was a child because my parents spent all their time arguing, which ended up generating violence. I started to bring this same anger and violence into my life by beating other people. I carried this emotional baggage and took refuge in tobacco, drugs, and the world of online games because I thought they could fill the void.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Because I\u00a0couldn’t\u00a0sleep, I would spend many nights playing non-stop. In the online world, I felt good; It filled me temporarily. But it got to a point where I got tired of it all because my life was only going backward. I ended up in the hospital many times due to anxiety attacks and because of other diseases that\u00a0didn’t\u00a0even exist, were undiagnosable, and were generated by what I kept inside. At the hospital, I\u00a0was advised\u00a0to take medication for anxiety, sleep, and depression. I took them, but they\u00a0didn’t\u00a0have any effect.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“I\u00a0had no social life, neither with family nor with friends. I had my meals\u00a0in front of\u00a0a screen because I\u00a0didn’t\u00a0want to be with anyone. I met a girl during this time, but it all went down the drain because when I was with her, I\u00a0couldn’t\u00a0hold a conversation and just wanted to return to that online\u00a0world’s\u00a0emptiness. So, it became a very problematic relationship, and she broke up with me. But I\u00a0didn’t\u00a0know how to accept that; I became desperate and tried to kill myself. I came up with a plan to go to the train track and kill myself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

“In this situation, my mother invited me to the Universal Church; I was so desperate that I accepted.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I came to the Church, I didn’t understand many things. Still, with the guidance of the Pastor, the assistants, and my current wife, I began to accept and understand that this was the path I had to follow. As I got to know God’s Word, I saw several changes: the hurt, the desire to cry, and the emptiness disappeared, and I began to have peace; I could sleep again. I gave up gaming, tobacco, and drugs, focusing only on the Word of God.
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\n<\/span>“Later, I started dating my current wife, we got married, I started working, and our lives stabilized. I began to seek the Holy Spirit and gave myself 100% to God. After I was baptized with His Spirit, I began to feel an immense peace, and everything began to fall into place in my life. I started to have a social life, to talk to my family, and to have friends. I used to work for others, but now I have a gardening company. ‘Today, I have peace within myself and in my marriage.”
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After a shattered childhood, Miguel sought to fill the inner void with addictions. “I\u00a0suffered a lot since I was a child because my parents spent all their time arguing, which ended up generating violence. I started to bring this same anger and violence into my life by beating other people. I carried this emotional baggage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6063],"tags":[282,42,6126,6197,71,93,94,6141,6156,1545,133,285,6153,6172,6124,174,6121],"site":[],"class_list":["post-340846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-transformation","tag-addiction","tag-anxiety","tag-bible","tag-chain-of-prayer","tag-challenge-of-faith","tag-deliverance","tag-depression","tag-faith","tag-family","tag-family-problems","tag-holy-spirit","tag-marriage","tag-mindset","tag-miracles","tag-peace","tag-prayer","tag-the-holy-spirit"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340846"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340856,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340846\/revisions\/340856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340846"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=340846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}