Madly in Love with my wife Lori and our three children!!
Been through alot in my life. Alot of pain and emptyness. Here's my story.
I remember being 12 years old thinking about putting a gun to my head and pulling the trigger. I felt like my life was hopeless. My father left when I was around three years old and my only memories of my father were him beating my mother. I grew up dreaming of having a father. I had no one to teach me how to throw a baseball or catch a football, or take me fishing. I never really fit in with the other kids. Growing up I was the fat kid who never got picked for any teams. The two coolest kids would line everybody up and start picking who they wanted on thier team but I never got picked. I would go home and cry my eyes out. I just wanted to feel important, I just wanted to be picked. I started using drugs as a teen to take my pain away. I just wanted to stop hurting! I would use cocaine whenever it was around. Soon I started selling drugs and getting in trouble with the law. I ended up in jail a couple of times and finally got charged with my first felony. I was not a Christian. I didn’t care whether or not there was a God. Even if there was a God, why would he want a worthless drug addict like me. I was damaged goods. By this time I had a $400.00 a day cocaine addiction, I was a multiple felon with no hope for the future. I hated myself and not a day went by that I didn’t think about blowing my brains out. After stealing from my own mother to get high, I decided to take my own life and began to try and overdose on cocaine. My mother walked in unexpectedly and saw me overdose. She was crying out to God and called the paramedics. While I was in the ambulance, I felt the power of God! I called out to Jesus to save my life, and for the first time, I FELT LIKE I GOT PICKED! I have given everything to Christ and he has taken me places I never dreamed were possible. I now have a beautiful wife, Three awesome children, my band (Seventh Day Slumber) has been nominated for dove awards, I have had #1 songs on the radio, and led over 47 thousand people to Christ! This is all because of Christ. I am nothing without him. I was crazy enough to believe that I COULD DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME! I am not perfect, I still make mistakes and I still sometimes feel down, but now I have a place that I can go for strength and that place is Jesus Christ!
