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joshua1990
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Was born in a good happy family played sports,went camping, would go to disney land, involved with the Church My parents are still together they been married for 34 years I have 32 year old sister 30 year old brother and 28 year old brother and I am the youngest 21 =) so basically I was saved when I was 7 i played sports was very good had good relationship with my family made friends pretty easy I was very out going and nice! and i loved every body so when I turned 13 years old I was on a select baseball team with a very Mean coach that made me not want to play sports any more me and my dad stop getting along because his drinking got worse and our relationship got distant my older brothers and sister got caught up in there Life my Mom was just my mom she loved me and I loved her very much as always when I got to highschool as a freshman I started hanging out with the Juniors and Seniors starting experiementing with pot and drinking instead of playing sports or watching the games and being invovled with the school I got involved in the party world and started selling drugs I got in to ecstasy and cocaine on the weekends and would sell weed to everybody that smoked in high school bye Softmour year I got kicked out of school and got really bad in Oxy cotin it became a issue in the town i grew up in me and couple friends tried heroin and got involved with that and relized it was cheaper and just the same as Oxy so we started getting people to try heroin but call it Opium since it didnt sound as a nasty bye 17 years old I was pretty heavy in heroin One night I had a friend hang out with me and showed him my world of selling and making money and getting high I had him stay the night at my parents house My parents had no clue I was in to heroin they might of thought i have experienced alky and pot but never heroin so my parents soon found out I was doing heroin when I woke up that morning when the friend that stayed the night at my house was laying dead on my top bunk He OD'ed in his sleep I was so messed up and controlled bye drugs that I didnt even go to his funeral and I was friends with him for a good 5 years before we started doing drugs I sent my self to rehab soon after that got back out Thought I could just drink and party and be ok but soon again I got into shooting heroin again for almost 3 years I went from getting kicked out became homeless with a really bad Drinking and Heroin problem I have woken up in emergency rooms from Over doses I have done some bad things seem some bad things and walked threw bad things I was living in the depths of hell then One night I got robbed Gun point and It was time I thought i had to end my life I was going to kill my self because i had nothing but broken hearts from family and just felt completly dead on the inside so thats when i got my knee's and was like God I dont know if you are there and have'nt talked to you for many years but change my life I cant do this any more then Hours later I get pulled over and searched and went to jail for possion of heroin from Jail I went to rehab and that was the place that changed my life when I went to meet my counsler He was asking me all these ?'s then asked me Has drug and alky ever effect your spiritualy I looked at him and said Yes I guess I used to have a relationship with God as a christian but I dont know about that stuff any more thou He dropped his pen and sat back and Looked at me smiling and asked me You know why i am smiling i am like no then he Said Because you are a christian and so Am I I am here to tell you God never left you you left him and that moment I felt this Spirit over whelming my Whole Body I felt an Understanding, I felt a Healing over my Addiction, I felt claridy, I felt GOD ever since I surrenderd my heart to Jesus and I let him order my footsteps and I follow when I got out of Rehab I started off with 2 pairs a close and was able to Couch at a Oxford house intill i got on my feet that was a year and half ago and Today I have tons of cloth,house,amazing loving relationships with brothers and sisters in Christ and awesome relationship with my Family I am invovled with the Community,Churches,Ministry and other awesome things I am starting college in spring God did acomplete 180 on me and the person I am today is amazing I am loving,caring,Honest,trust worthy,funny,driven, I know my purpose for life and I look at my Past as a blessing God is using my past to help others I go an evangleize in the streets of the city and go up to drug addicts/homeless etc and Just start talking to them about God because God gave me this connection with them Lol I can go on and on with what God is doing in my life I am so thank ful Praise Him! Love him! and Thank him!!! thats just a lil bit of my story!!!
