In March of 2018, my choices had caught me again. As I was being served a felony bench warrant for absconding probation, my mom asked the Kentucky State Trooper who was arresting me if she could pray with me before he took me oK to jail. Up to this point in my life, I thought I was exempt from the wages of sin because of a “spiritual encounter” I had with God as a child. A memory from my youth that I walked away from with no true life change, and no true hope. Just an excuse to live in accordance with my own will. But in his beautiful mercy, on that cool day in March God allowed me to see just how broken and separated I was from Him. As we prayed together that day I called out to a God I didn’t know, and I asked Him to do something I didn’t understand. “Please Change my heart! Change me! Fix me!”. I was born again that day. In a whirlwind of emotion, I felt the anger, bitterness, and malice that had cased my heart for so long start to loosen. Something changed in me that day. That stone heart that drove my depravity began to soKen. For the first time, I had true love in my heart, I had hope! I still had to go to jail that day, but it was the last time I would ever go as an inmate. The Lord restored my life to me, my mind to me. Better yet gave me a new life that far surpassed the one I threw away. A new relationship with my children, a wonderful wife, a college degree, a job I shouldn’t have, a life I shouldn’t have. God didn’t just deliver me, he established me! When He met me that day almost 6 years ago, I wasn’t worth the dime bag of dope I had in my pocket. But he saw fit to pull me out of darkness and to call me His own. Today the spirit of God lives on the inside of me, it empowers me to live, to love, and to appreciate the story He changed. Today, I get to share this story of redemption with everyone, even going back into those same jails they use to throw me in, to speak hope to the hopeless. God is so good, God is so kind, and he is more than able to rewrite any story, to bring light to any darkness.”