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Our Fathers help
Jul 15, 2008

I started out at around 13 years old doing drugs, I didn't get started with a little weed like most people do, I went straight for the hard stuff with a little help from some friends. Let me back up a little bit. I went to christian schools, to church every Sunday and wednesday's but this wasn't for me. It was a little to hard core for  my taste so I went out from there and found the party. A lot of fun or so I thought, staying out every night running the streets looking for what ever action I could find whether it be the girls , lots of drugs and alcahol or a little of both. As I got deeper into the Life of drugs and women I had to find a way to make the money to support my habits which were many by the age of sixteen. So from there a life of crime comes naturally when you have such needs as I did, for pills of anykind , crystal meth ,cocaine , heroin , crack in my later years. Use to love a good speedball and lots of alcahol to wash it all down with. All of this turned my life into a whirlwind always looking for a good time and in the meantime I totalled several vehicles and spent a lot of time in the cooler contimplating life. At the age of 25 I figured I might settle down to one woman but I didn't realize what love was and neither did she. Sure the sex was great and having someone to come home to was even better until our habits started getting in the way, PARTYYYYYYYYY everynight until the money ran out and then life started to be a constant struggle around the age of 36 and I had to fight everyday my urges to go and rob someone or break in somewhere to support 2 habits now. This was not cool at all for the fact that I told myself I would never see the inside of a jail again and damn sure did not want to die. So our marriage started going to shit after that, there was no love with out the drugs. Our marriage was based on the party. I gave up the alcahol and drugs hoping things would get better but all that did was make it worse between us because there was no party after that and she wasn't having it. We ended up breaking up and at forty I found that the party girls were still there waiting so here I go again, Rebel without a cause. With no where to turn and contimplating suicide a few times I moved out of the state to a small town in the mountains and I was here for about six months when I saw some bikers going into a small church in my community. Well I thought this must be some kind of undergound cult so I didn't go near it for a while, but I was walking by oneday and a presence came over me and told me to go inside and on that day I found the Lord again after 25 years of struggles and have been there ever since. I did not think that God existed, that He was just cooked up by a bunch of people that were scared to live life and see the world for what it really is and that is condemned to hell. I know that is a very harsh thing to say but turn on the news or read the paper and realize what we are headed for. It is reality. My point is our Father doesn't care where you have been but He does care where you are going because He loves all of us deeply and all we have to do is give our lives to Him and walk the right path. It is not as hard as you may think to turn your life around and walk the right path if He is leading the way. For myself I have found a calm come over my life like I have never felt before. It is the best feeling in the world , there is nothing else like it when you are down and don't think you are going to make it He always provides the way. I am definately not saying I am one of the chosen ones because I still have my moments where I go the wrong way and do things I shouldn't , but I feel if you make an effort and don't keep heading down the same road day after day He will eventually provide the right path if you fellowship with Him daily. God bless everyone. Praise the Lord
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