ROBIN WILLIAMS

ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS IN LIFE IS HUMOR. ROBIN
WILLIAMS HAD THE GIFT IN ABUNDANCE. AFTER THE
"MORK AND MINDY" YEARS HE DID STAND-UP AND HIS
MATERIAL REACHED ME, TOUCHED MY SOUL. HIS
SELF-DEPRECATION IMPRESSED ME IN THE SENSE THAT
HE COULD ADMIT HIS FLAWS. HE WAS NO "STAR", HE WAS
A GUY WITH THE SAME FLAWS AND WEAKNESSES THAT
I HAD....

THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN DID NOT MATTER TO ME. WHEN I
WOULD LISTEN TO HIS ACT, I WOULD LAUGH UNTIL MY SIDES
ACHED AND TEARS FLOWED.... WE SHARED THE SAME
DISEASE; ADDICTION. SOMETIMES IT WAS GOOD TO HEAR
THAT SOMEONE ELSE SHARED MY PAIN, MY SHAME; BUT,
HERE IS THE BAD PART...HE/WE TRIED SO MANY TIMES TO
OVERCOME HIS/MY ADDICTIONS. HE/I WOULD STOP FOR A
WHILE; BUT THE DESIRE, THE YEARNING WAS ALWAYS
THERE IN THE BACK OF HIS/MY MIND....WAITING FOR AN
EXCUSE, REAL OR IMAGINED TO OVER POWER REASON AND
RESPONSIBILITY....

EVENTUALLY A RELAPSE WOULD OCCUR, THE SHAME AND
GUILT OF FAILURE IS DEPRESSING, HE/I WOULD DESPISE
HIMSELF/MYSELF, WOULD HATE THE WEAKNESS WITHIN.
OVER AND OVER HE/I WOULD SWEAR NEVER TO DO IT
AGAIN........BUT THEN HE/I WOULD.

I OVERCAME MY ADDICTIONS WITH THE HELP OF THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST. I INVITED HIM INTO MY HEART, GAVE
HIM MY LIFE AND NOW I LIVE FOR HIM, NOT FOR
"SUBSTANCES".....MY SORROW FOR MR WILLIAMS IS THAT
HE TOOK HIS OWN LIFE BEFORE HE TRUSTED JESUS.....

WHAT ROBIN WILLIAMS DID PROVED THAT HOLLYWOOD
HAS NO ANSWER, THAT RICHES, FAME, FORTUNE OR POWER
HAVE NO ANSWERS TO THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE SOUL.....

ONLY JESUS IS THE ANSWER.

                                                  RONALD J LAMB