orn in the early forties in Flint , Michigan , I am a recovered alcoholic/drug user who starting using when I was 13 years old. At age 40, I was blessed with hearing the words of God, in my heart, spiritually speaking to me. I had decided with the Lord’s help that now was the time for me to look at the way my life has been blessed, rather than how I felt I had been cursed. For over twenty-nine years, I had been living a lie; ruining my family, my friends, my marriages and relationships, not seeing that I have been truly blessed with hobbies and accomplishments that I have very much enjoyed over the years.

            I had been battling with myself and others, until I came to realize that the Lord had been speaking to me over the years while I was having an internal war with myself. I was not really understanding that I had a deaf ear to everything that was good around me.

            For years, life seemed to turn a cold shoulder to my hope of ever thinking that I would be anything more than a loser. To overcome these feelings, I had to believe in myself or I would be lost forever.