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 Born in Kansas City, Missouri and
raised in the church but never took it seriously. At the age of 9, I started
stealing my oldest sisters liquor, drinking anything I could get my hands on. I
tried marijuana at the age of 12. By the time I was 16 I began hanging out with some
of the toughest gangsters, in some of the toughest places, doing all the thins you can
imagine and then some. I had moved out of my mother's house at the age of 13, stayed
in school, got my GED, and went to the job corp in Utah. I graduated as a welder and
began making a lot of money. I got involved with the wrong people in Utah.
Started selling drugs, lost my job, and got in trouble with the state. They
asked me to leave or be a guest in the state facility for 15 years. With those
choices before me, I left and went to California. The same thing there, I got in
with the wrong people, doing the wrong things. Through out God truly had His hand on me.
But did I learn or heed to the call of God? Not yet. After a few years
in California and living that life, I thought that if I went home to my mother's that
would be incentive enought to straighten me up. Wrong! Got back to Kansas
City, and what happened? I got involved iwht one of the toughest killers in Kansas
City, who is doing 6 life terms in the State Penitentiary. I was doing the same
things all over again, selling dope, doning dope, selling dope, doing dope. It
looked as if that was it for my life, no hope, no will, no God. ONe evening the
phone rang. A woman said that God kept putting my name before her and she invited me
to church. I went and one thing led to another. I surrendered to God, but I ws
still drinking nd drugging. One Satuday night, after the enemy had beat me up, down,
and all around. God stepped in. That night, I sat at my kitchen table with a
piece of crack to my left, beer and vodka on my right, and my bible in the middle of it
all. I heard a voice, nice and soft, saying "ask me, ask me", so I did.
I remember saying this prayer asking God to remove the desire for drinking nd drugs
and replace it with the desire for His word. He did. I have been, and amy
madly in love with my Father, My God in every sense.
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