Can The Leopard Change Its Spots?

Try explaining some of the details of your past to someone unfamiliar with alcohol or drug addiction and they will often recoil from such testimony with disgust or pity. I believe that such a response is partially due to a common experience with alcoholics and addicts that the leopard cannot change its spots. At best they might say something like, “Thank you very much but that is way more than I ever wanted to know about you.”

We are called to demonstrate that psychic change rather than talk about it with anyone other than those we are trying to help. The world will only “receive us back into its citizenship” when we show that change in the way we work, the way we play and the way we treat others. Amen. Shalom. Salome. Namaste.