Chris
For as far back as I can remember living life to its fullest wat the only way I knew how.
Pushing boundaries to full max was my daily goal. Life started early for me always around grown people and wrong people. I had to blend in so whatever was offered I was glad to take.I would use not even thinking about what the outcome would be. At that stage I did not care. All I wanted to be was cool and the same as everyone else I was hanging around with. Day after day this big life style started getting me down. Not being able to keep up I had to make a plan.So asking around on what to do I met someone who gave me a bag and said “Try this it will change your life”.
So at 17 years who was I to say no. I took it and used it like I was instructed and WOW!!
What a rush, pick up and all, that goodness I thought I was God and King of the world. This at the age of 17, so my drug addiction started.
Hanging with grownups started changing .They now wanted to start hanging around with me.
I enjoyed it and didn’t even see that they were only there for the money for drugs and good times. Life was going by so fast at the age of 20 years I was a father to my first-born baby girl. Now that would change any person’s life to be good, so that your kid could have a father to look up to. Me ?, no ways I found it better to use drugs. The time I saw and spend time with my daughter was when she was 1 year old.It was OK, because my drugs were my life, so I lost my kid. Time flying past, I found myself jobless and living with my mother at the age of 27.
I got comfortable and knew Mommy would take care of me.
So manipulating was the game plan. Hurting and making not only my Mother afraid of me but the whole family. I was stealing their goods to sell and threatening their lives. I kept doing that until they had enough. They had me locked up but still it did not break me. My Mother arranged for an intervention at home and one of the Directors of BRC came to speak to me. That is where my life started changing. I signed up for a 6 months Rehabilitation program at BRC. The first few weeks were hard so hard I wanted to go home every day until I had my encounter with the Lord our Father. That is where my whole life started to change. I thank my Father God for coming to BRC , entering my life and setting me free.