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Hello my
name is Thomas, now I have not always
been a person you could put your trust
in. Not that I didn’t want anyone to
trust me, it was just that I could not
trust myself. I had some things in my
life that handy cap me from being
someone you would want to trust. I was a
drug addict. See drugs became my life, I
would do anything to get them, drugs
were my life and my life was drugs. I
went to sleep with drugs on my mind and
wake up with them on my mind. I could
not see that I had a problem. I was at
the point where I thought I could stop.
I would make myself go a day or two
without using them; it would make me
think that I could stop at any time. I
had come to place in my life where all I
wanted to do was to take. I took from
everyone I knew and people I didn’t
know. Slowly everything that I had that
was dear to me slowly slipped away,
including my family and my friends.
After trying to stop using drugs and
trying it my way, and the NA way, the
only other way I didn’t try was the
Lord’s way. After I open my heart up to
the Lord, God started to do a work in me
that I could not believe. One of the
first things that God work on was my
integrity. I recall when I first came to
ARW I worked in the warehouse. I ran
across some shampoo for my hair that I
needed. Here was the first chance I had
to do the right thing and turn my life
around. So for the first time in a long
time I did the right thing and asked
someone for something I wanted, after
that things started to happen to me and
for ma I continue working on my
integrity. Then God showed me my pride,
yes as you would guess God had me to
work on that also. Then came the big
one, the one that we say have but full
short of which is love. The Lord is
showing me how to love more and more
each and every day. The more I read
God’s Word the more I want to be like
Christ. Guess what, I am now working for
the American Rescue Workers. If it had
not been for this place called ARW my
walk in the Lord would not be as it is
today. It feels good to be trusted again
with something and by someone.
In Jesus Name Amen.
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