I was raised in a Christian home, taught to pray and was fortunate enough to hear His praises sung daily. All of this still did not keep me from becoming saturated with alcohol, drugs, sex, music and the overall opposition to the desires of Christ until my early 20’s.

I was 22 years old, and after years of living in a life not involving Christ, I came to the realization that there was a hole in me that no amount of alcohol, drugs, sex, friendship, family, music or anything else was ever going to fill. I knew that I had to allow Christ into my life in order to fill that vacancy in my soul.

There’s no hole in my soul anymore. I understand that He has a purpose for my life that all of my previous living will one day  be used to help someone else fill that void in their own life. I have found that reading the bible and communicating with God through prayer occupies that hole in my heart and fills it with joy.