From destroying lives and families to restoring lives and families

I grew up in a Christian home, and grew up being taught about God and church my dad was a pastor, but never really got that I needed a relationship. Getting picked on at a young age, and when my family moved to martinsburg at the 6th grade it was my chance to have friends and make a name for myself. By the 8th grade I had a reputation that was starting to build because of who I was hanging around and by the 10th grade I started to experiment with pot and smoking and drinking. by 12th grade started to get into a lot of the heavier stuff like coke and pills and that type of stuff, which eventually led me to the point of trying to take my life for a second time, and woke up in a mental hospital after it failed, Spent a week in there got out and tried to stay living well, Thinking I'll just smoke ciggarettes it wont hurt and then when that didn't fix it it would go to pot and than before you knew it I was finding myself back to the same old me, I remember I had just turned 18 when I was tired of hurting and wanted the pain to go away instead of being numbed for a quick minute or too, thats where I found myself logging on to teenhopeline.com and there I asked a question like I don't think God could ever love a drug addict like me. they told me how while we were still sinners Christ died for us, that night I asked Christ into my life and felt the power of God give me peace, but it didn't stop there I still had my flaws and didn't change who I hung around cuz it was hard to get the support and accountability I needed. so wasn't three months later out on a 3 day coke binge I pulled a gun on someone at a walmart in my hometown and I cried out to God and said God I'll do whatever it takes so he led me to teen challenge where I began to walk out my faith in Jesus Christ and led me to teenhopeline where I began to minister to hurting kids just like me, till a year and a half later when I left to live a selfish life and after my plans falling through I tried to overdose on oxycotten. And he kept me alive and began to minister to me and God called me again back to teenhopeline.com I have learn through all of this he who loses his life will gain it and he who keeps his life will lose it. Nothing beats living where God has for you and staying on the right path and thats all that matters to me is knowing God more on a daily basis.
JT

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