Gary

by Gary....G-MANY
(Surprise Arizona, USA)

Every story involving addiction is very similar, but again much different.

Most think only the poor and uneducated end up with drug addictions, how wrong they are. My addiction, like many started off being fun and harmless until cocaine took hold.

The crazy thing about cocaine, meth and all the rest; you really think your in control and can quit at any time. You lie, cheat, steal and destroy your families......and you don't have the capacity to see or FEEL what's really going on.

It's like you live two different lives, some fantasy your living out. Then you blame everyone around you and especially the ones who love you most that it's their fault....and you actually believe it.

Looking back now, I struggle with what I had become, because I know that person was not me. Luckily for me my three children, now grown had a foundation of the Lord in their life or who knows what would have happened.

How can a man or women with so much potential just throw it away??? Now I know, evil is waiting on all of us 24/7 and we have to resist all of the temptations that surround us daily.

Like lust of the flesh, can you walk into a mall and see a beautiful lady and not undress her as she walks by? BE HONEST....or the same for you ladies. Porn sites, don't start.... Tell the truth in ALL things...Be more concerned about your character than your reputation....But the number one failure for me was my stinking pride and what others thought about me.

I was able to shield off many with my wealth, cars, expensive vacations, private schools for my kids and the list goes on and on from there.

Treatment centers didn't work, group therapy didn't work, saying I will never do it again didn't work, staying away from certain people didn't work....sure some helped for a while, just like a band-aid on a cut that needs stitches; it's only short lived.

How do I have all this great information you may be asking yourself....because what you have read is my story.

After 10 years of growing into a full blown crack addiction, taking all of my possessions and family...my life has been totally restored by saying a simple prayer. FATHER HELP ME,I'M OUT OF CONTROL AND DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. PLEASE FORGIVE ME AND LET THE OLD GARY COME BACK...I ADMITT I've SINNED BUT NEED A SAVIOR, WILL YOU PLEASE COME INTO MY LIFE....Just like that, (BANG) my addiction was over never to return.

The same can happen to you and your loved ones. THANK YOU JESUS for everything you have done in my life, let me help others that struggle with the same failures...Gary gkr377@gmail.com