My life before Christ was a time of consistently looking for a reason for what life was all about, starting with having polio as a young child, to having a mother walk out on her family when I was around 6 years old, to not ever hearing the name of Jesus in my house. While my father was a good man, he had to work all the time to raise me and my brother. I grew up pretty much on my own. While serving with the Marines in Viet Nam, I remember talking to a God that I never really knew. I was still asking Him what life all about, even after He allowed me to come home ok.

It was during a personal time of searching for answers, that God began to speak to me through different methods of communication. I was interested in prophecy and was reading what the leading men and women were saying about the future times. I was also into music that had messages. God spoke through both of these mediums in some very special ways. I found a radio station one night that was playing a new form of music called ‘contemporary’ Christian music, and at the same time, God brought a special man to be a fellow worker on my construction job. Over a very short time I witnessed this man having something that I knew I needed. He shared Christ with me in a way I had never heard of before. The Holy Spirit was speaking to me in many other ways at this time, and one day on the way home from work I simply asked Christ to come in my life and give me the same peace this “special” man had in his.

This is the good part that I will always be thankful for. Besides the understanding of knowing that I will have eternal life for what Christ has done for me, I also realize that on my daily walk through life I now have a peace and an understanding of what life is all about. The hurt of a lonely childhood and the lack of answers to ‘why’, are gone and replaced with a loving family and a heavenly Father who loves me and has a plan just for me!