A Gathering of Friends

Recnetly a group of friends of mine and my wife's rallied around us and hosted a benefit to help us out with the downfall that this economy and the troubles of ths world had brought upon us. The lose of my job and kidney cancer and then losing the house that my wife bought shortly after she gradtuated highschool. A truly humbling expierience. God Bless Them All.

 She raised two wonderful daughters with their father. Due to circumstances that lead to a divorce she found herself raising her daughters alone. We met a few years later and fell in love and soon married, the girls at that time were 14 and 15. Our marriage was not without problems, (mostly caused by me). I was without faith and battling alcoholisim and drug abuse, the only things that my wife really knew about me because I chose not to reveal the rest of my torrid past. As our world began to crumble, I found that I did not like who I was and what I had been doing with my life. My wife also was at the point of leaving me or should I say asking me to leave her and her daughters.

 She saught help through the Pastor of the local Baptice Church, one we had been attending sperattically and he introduced me to a friend of his who in return introduced me to Celebrate Recovery, a Christ centerd recovery group that uses the 12 steps of AA and blends them with the Beatitudes of Jesus. I have now been with this group 3 years and have worked on my addictions along with my hurts, hang-ups and habits and have overcome the power of satan and the hold he had on me. Praise God! I have given my life to Jesus and now help lead others to Him by teaching what I have learned through C.R. and by turning my life over to His care and His will for my life.

I want to praise God for His wonderful grace and His Son Jesus who died on the cross so that I may be forgiven and free from satans grasp on my life. Jesus died for me, so I live for Him!