Mine is a story of miraculous healing by YHWH. I owe so much to him that at times I feel inferior & I wonder if I've done a good enough job in following His precepts as I should.But here I am! 51 years old, married to a wonderful spouse, employed, living in a nice house, who would have ever imagined! Let me explain why I believe this is. I was born in 1959 to 2 troubled parents. There was never any drug or alcohol abuse with my parents but they were very abusive to me both physically & emotionally. They beat me with anything they could get their hands on from belts to brooms to boards. They were both very belittling to me & I was miserable as a child. I don't remember how it happened but I met a co-worker that my dad worked with & he was a child molester & he molested me. I thought of it, at the time, as a way to get attention & affection since I wasn't getting it at home. At age 11 I was introduced to marijuana. The next 35 years of my life was steeped in drug & alcohol abuse. By the time it was over I was contemplating suicide. I had no friends, I had ruined bank accounts, I couldn't pass a drug test to get a job. At that point I cried out to the Father & he heard my plea. I called a member of a church that I was attending off & on at the time& said that I was in a lousy living situation & that I needed a place to live. In 3 days I had moved out of a bad situation into a much better one. It was October 30 2006. It was then that I began to take recovery seriously I think I used a couple of more times but on December 19 2006 I made a vow to the Father & to myself that I would never use illegal drugs again. It was then that I began to take recovery seriously I'm now going on 4 years clean & sober PRAISE YAHWEH!! I believe now as I look back that I used drugs to mask the pain of all of the abuse I suffered growing up. How ever the scriptures say to fill that void with the spirit of Yahushua & not substances. I'm now doing volunteer work in a homeless shelter here in Cincinnati hoping to give the gift away that was given to me.My life has been blessed in ways I never thought possible. I didn't even think I could enjoy a nice day without being high on something. Praise Yah he removed that lie from my life!