Last Update: 06/22/96
Web Author: dhh
I was raised by my grandmother who taught me all about Jesus Christ, but when I reached my teenage years I started following the crowd. "Fun" was all I cared about, but this so called "fun" almost destroyed my life! I thank God for giving me a grandmother who stood on God's word and didn't give up, if not for her prayers I would not be sharing this with you.
Through the years things just got worse and worse, I became an alcoholic. I had always "planned" on going back to Jesus but it was always "later" not now! I had believed that I had to be "perfect" before giving my life to Jesus Christ, and how wrong I was!!
About 9 yrs ago my life was in such a mess and the drinking really got bad so I decided to sign myself into a detox center. They kept me there for 4 days and things seemed to be going well for me for about 1 month...THEN I started drinking again and this time I was worse off than before! So one day while in my living room I prayed... (Even tho I had believed that I needed to be perfect, I still "knew" that Jesus Christ loved me) so I asked him to come into my life. I told him that I did not want anything that he did not want for me. I asked him to lead my every step and to forgive me of all I have done. Well I then poured all the alcohol down the kitchen sink. I was set free at that moment... I never even had to go to an AA meeting... never had the "shakes" (which when I signed myself into the detox center, I had them so bad they had to give me lots of medicine to calm me down) but not this time!!
The first time I was trying to do it on my own, this time I had called on Jesus Christ!! There is a difference you know! We need his power, his love, to take us through life. Without him we are lost! I had always "thought" that "my way" was the right way...I thought I had everything under control...but "my way" was really "satan's way" his way to do his best to destroy me!
I then spent the next 3 yrs attending chruch and studying the Bible at home, and about 2 years later I suddenly developed the gift of writing poetry. In a matter of a few months I had enough poems to publish two books!! I had never been interested in poetry, never written a poem in my life! One day I wrote 5 poems, they would just come to me. Sometimes I would wake up and have the first verse in my mind and then finish it later in the day!
I want everyone to know that it does not matter what you have done, or how bad your life gets... When you call on Jesus Christ...he is right there for you. He will not turn you away...he welcomes you...he then begins to change your whole life!! I am living proof of this.
Last Update: 06/22/96
Web Author: dhh
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