Always featuring music videos below my title-related pictures, Zach Williams ~ a former addict like myself, wrote this song that touched my deepest heart:
° Is singing songs of redemption ever time we run away
° Is speaking to us louder than our own shame
° NEVER GIVES UP ON ME!
And never gave up on me He did.
Smoking marijuana for the 1st time at a Roman Catholic high school in San Francisco at 15 years of age, I was instantly addicted for the next 45 years.
Marijuana THE gateway drug, I proceeded to consume 14 other types of narcotics, almost killing myself on cocaine during a business trip in Puerto Rico.
Besides drugs, I was also heavily addicted to sex, alcohol and extreme sports for 45 years.
Now ~ thank God, I am very proud and immensely grateful to confirm that I am 11.5 yearsclean & permanently healed!
A wonderful fellow I met in a court-mandated assault & battery rehab, was not so lucky as I was.
Respecting his anonymity, I will call him Eddie.
Like I did, Eddie started smoking marijuana as a young teen.
Marijuana led to methamphetamines that soon Eddie started to manufacture.
Caught by the police, he was sentenced to 50 years in a super tough Southern red-neck penitentiary.
By the grace of God and a quirk in the law, Eddie was released after 9 years.
His heartfelt testimony:
"Friend, if you turn to Christ Jesus and give Him full reign over your life, He will work miracles on your behalf."
ALBERT & CHRISTINE GARCIA
