There are so many things that have happened in the last year and a half while I have been in Davisboro here at Mighty Man Ministry. It is my hope to share some of these things with you, if I can. 

I came into this place a bit shell shocked from being back in active addiction. After 14 years of sobriety, I relapsed in 2017. It was the detour we all have nightmares about. I opened Pandora’s box and couldn’t get her back in it. I was completely enslaved again, to that hellacious drug with no sympathy for its victims. The psychosis and the delusions abounding, I was just gone. Physically gone, mentally gone, spiritually gone, and financially gone.

Then, to make matters worse, I got arrested. Looking back now, it was probably the best thing that could have happened to me. I was living in a storage unit, taking showers at Planet Fitness… things had definitely gone downhill from my previous stint as an IT technician and cybersecurity student. I finally hit rock bottom, after 7 years of wandering and struggling and squirming and being scared of my own shadow.

I tried and tried to get help. I did meetings. I did programs. I asked for prayer. I did everything I could think of to do. 

7 months in the county jail, and then I found Mighty Man. This 150 acre farm. These guys that know what I have been through. This family of brothers, trying their best to help each other and hold each other accountable.

I have many stories to tell. But the only one really worth telling is the one about how Jesus saved me. He changed me from the inside out. He made me into a whole new person and put his love in my heart. I found love in this place. Not the kind you are probably thinking of. I found a pure love, God’s love. It is what changed me. The love of God is what we are all really looking for. It is the only thing that truly satisfies. It is the only place to find peace. True peace. His peace. It is a tangible reality available to all of those who will truly surrender to His grace.

Have you ever considered how God feels about you?