1. Christ does not hide his wounds. He offers them.
  2. The great lie of addiction is that suffering must be fled, must be numbed, must be drowned out by any means necessary.
  3. The addict’s condition speaks a hard truth: that we are all beggars before God, every one of us bent toward the grave.
  4. Addiction is the warped fruit of a good tree: a sign that the heart longs for transcendence but has sought it in places too small, too finite to hold such hunger.
  5. In Simeon's hands and Anna's gaze, we are reminded of God's promise—not distant, not fading, but alive.

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