Breaking Bad Ep. 2

This week on Breaking Bad, Walter and his "associate" Pinkerman have to figure out what they are going to do with the body of Emilio and the partially deceased "Cray Eights". In this Episode, Walter is faced with a new kind of low... he is now a murderer. Not only is Walter a murderer but he has to figure out what he is going to do with a half dead man. This begins the even further, moral digression that is happening. Walter cannot bring himself to murder Crazy Eight and turns to smoking pot to avoid his problems.  Not only is Walter in a state of conflict with what he is doing and his morals but now his wife, Skyler is beginning to get suspicious of his odd behavior. She goes on the hunt to figure out what is going on with her husband, by finding Pinkerman and confronting him about selling Walter weed, while he is trying to dispose of Emilio's body. Pinkerman deals with Skyler and then moves the body into the bathtub in his home to soak the body in acid to dispose of it. This ends up proving even further that Pinkerman does not know what he is doing because the acid soaks through the tub causing the acid to  erode the  tub and cause the bloody remains of the body to fall to the first floor of the house.

In this episode Walter is now turning to drugs to handle his problems. He can't trust his partner and he can't tell anyone else so he turns to pot to cope with the pain of not only his cancer but to remove himself with the gravity of he situation he has found himself in. He is desperate, uncomfortable, and has no idea how to handle this situation. He is becoming a different person, slowly changing to the culture he has thrown himself into however he still feels guilty. He tries to be kind to Crazy Eight and cannot bring himself to murder him. Walter is removing himself from reality to deal with the pain.

Many times I believe that people find themselves in the a position similar to Walter's. They feel forced into bad situations to survive and need a way to escape the terrible truth of what their lives are becoming. They see no way out, so they run to something that will make them feel better for a moment.  In ministry we are going to deal with this repeatedly whether it is with others or ourselves. We all want a quick fix but that isn't the business that Jesus deals in. He is our savior and the one who restores and brings about life through transformation. As a person who desires to minister to people, we have to be willing to understand what got them to this point, because it doesn't just happen. We also need to be willing to walk with them in their pain and help show them a God that they can turn too.