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"I got into buying drugs from the mafia in New York and selling drugs on college campuses. Just raising all the hell that I could at a young age."
I made a choice. That day a healing process started in my life. Now I can look back and say, “Wow.
I completely gave in to the depression and I gave into the addiction. I became homeless. I lost custody of my sons. It was then that I cried out to the Lord.
I knew better. I was raised better, but once I started and the more I did it the deeper into it I got.
When I got up after he prayed for me it was like I had gotten a shower on the inside and I was now clean.
It’s really hard to admit you’re an alcoholic and addict to gambling. It is hard to admit you’re addicted to excess.
. I was fifteen years old when I first tried a drug called heroin. From that point my life went downhill.
I would put on my clothes and I would tip [toe] out in the middle of the night to go gamble. In a week he would get paid. He would give me money to go buy the groceries. I’d go gamble every bit of it.
In attempt to find out how to best answer the girls we started reading the Bible together, and listening to Christian radio. We didn’t attend church for a while. Christian radio was our church.
The next morning I woke up my wife, and said, “We’re going to church.” She laughed and said, “Is there a wedding? Did somebody die?”, because we hadn’t been to church in years.