Find Hope
“Mr. Henson, I don’t know what you’ve been doing, but I wish you’d tell me. Your blood is better than mine.
"I actually told him that. “I’m not in love with you anymore."
I don’t know what it was. There was this flame inside my stomach just boiling over.
My dad committed the crime of first degree murder on August 14, 1996, which is my birthday, and he went to prison.
We have a phrase in Spanish that translates in English as, “If you live by the sword, you will most likely die by the sword.”, or, it could be “...you will die by the gun.”, whichever is your weapon of choice.
One morning I woke up, and I turned on the TV, and the night prior to that I was watching an x-rated movie channel. When I woke up and turned on the TV it was on the 700 Club!
He would tell us horror stories about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez. He told how unhappy they were and how they would fight and throw expensive dishes in their world of chaos.
"I was poor when I was young so I did everything to become rich now. I was unloved when I was young so I wanted to have as many friends as I could. I bought. I paid. I went. I did. I gave. It wasn’t generosity. It was need."
As you can imagine, I got very depressed. I pulled my car in one of those garages and tried to kill myself.
"Did I believe really that the stories in the bible were true? Not really sure."