Mandie Moore

..Most of my life has been lived in lonliness, fear, hopelessness and rejection. Even though I was brought up in church from an infant, I still had this void in my heart, the longing to be needed. At a young age my mom and dad divorced, and I started lying, manipulating and stealing. I was moved around alot after the divorce and could never get settled in all the schools I had to go to. During my teenage years, I sought guys, alcohol and marijuana to feel this lonliness, I had deep inside. I got pregnant at the age of 19 and got married. I had 2 children and at the age of 26 a drunk driver hit me in a vehicle and broke my neck. Doctors said I should have been dead, but I lived and had surgery with implants in the back of my neck. I took alot of pain medication to alleviate it. During the next 5 years, the hardware had broken and was almost at the point of paralyzing me. I had to have another neck surgery and during this, I became addicted to pain medication. I noticed that it gave me a rush,or to be more realistic "on top of the world" with alot of energy. There came a point where doctors would no longer prescribe it to me and I started having severe withdrawals. Body aches, tiredness and isolation. I started illegally getting pain meds of any kind to suffice my withdrawals. I was shooting drugs in my veins and changed drugs to cocaine, and my last choice, crack cocaine. It destroyed my life at that time, totally. I ended up going to multiple drug rehabs, detoxes, psychiatric wards for insane behavior and choices I was making. Nothing would help. I was in and out of jail and ended up loosing custody of my children, house, nursing lic. and in divorce. In jail I sought God and begged Him to help me. I started reading the bible and praying alot. I was sentenced to three years at Julia Tutwiler Prison, for drug charges, and was heart broken. I was alone. I rededicated my life to Jesus Christ in prison and instead of a three year sentence, I only got eight months. He knew my heart and poured grace and mercy out on me. I have been sober for two years. Everything that I used to put in front of The Lord, He took away for a SEASON. He has brought my children and family back into my life.Oh yeah, He also totally healed my liver that I had destroyed during drug use, GO God! Life is better than ever and He just keeps opening doors for me to minister all over. I sing and write Christian music and share my testimony all over. Be encouraged. If The Lord can turn my life around, He can yours too. Be Blessed my brothers and sisters.