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I could tell him things I couldn’t tell my friends. I later learned that’s what women who are abused do. They keep it a secret. Well, everything in my life was a secret anyway.
My Dad said; “But son, were you water baptized?” I said; “Yes I was Dad.” And he said; “Jeff, you’re not my son anymore. What you have done to your people, you are worse than Adolf Hitler.” He said; “You are no longer welcome...
As I came out I heard her singing “Jesus loves me.” The faster she rocked, the louder she sang. My parents heard her and we were kicked out of the house.
I did everything imaginable you can do and probably by the grace of God. A lot of people would have been in prison for some of the stuff I did.
When I was a little boy I was not the most athletic.I was definitely not the one most likely to succeed. I was shy and had a stuttering problem. I was extremely insecure. As a teenager my outlet for identity became sports. I ...
"I started cutting and looking for relationships at a very, very young age. I was cyber bullied to the point where I tried to commit suicide. All the while I was going to church and coming to our youth group and I was putting...
If I found myself messing up in one of those areas, or if I found myself not knowing what to say in front of a group of people I would be like; “Man you’re such an idiot!
I remember during middle school and high school I think I had basically nobody to talk to outside of my family about like; "This is what I am struggling with the Lord." Like; “Why isn’t He talking to me? Why can’t I hear His ...
So, my two year old, at one point, brought me a bottle of vodka. He said; “Here’s your drinking bottle mommy.”
I used to break into cars quite a bit. Steal radios, speakers, walk out of Lowes with baskets full of chain saws, carts full of chain saws, just crazy things because I could get dope for them. I had to have my dope to keep go...