With every path, there comes a choice.
“I want my attorney. And if I can’t talk to an attorney, let me talk to my wife!” Alcohol pumped through the veins of the corrections officer. Todd had never wanted to be like his father — until he reached for the bottle and found himself at rock bottom.
Randy and Cheryl had a destructive addiction that left them desperate and homeless. Just when they thought they were free to live out their dreams, their lives were literally “flooded” with change.
There was nowhere for Annie to turn. The abuse she had endured since childhood was still fresh in her mind. Her mom and dad didn’t love her like they used to. Her marriages had fallen to
pieces. Would she ever find true love?
Enter into these real stories and more from Salem, Oregon, and find relevance for your life. In the midst of their journeys, will they give up? Or will they reach the summit and earn the
right to be declared … UNDEFEATED.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Beautifully Wrecked: Lives Altered By an Unexpected Collision. Urban Church. San Diego, CA.
These San Diego people lived in the secret shadows of their own wrecked lives …
First speed, then cocaine, then meth. Now single and pregnant — unloved and unlovable Katie, a hopeless addict, couldn’t wreck her life any more than this. Or could she?
The San Diego streets sucked Marco in like fumes to a crack pipe. In and out of juvie, this violent gang member turned felon — assault with a deadly weapon — kicked his crime sprees into high gear. A drug dealer addicted to meth, he was proud his gang chose him to splatter fear at rival gang hangouts with drive-by bullets. Even when slammed with a 10-year prison term with a pregnant wife at home, Marco refused to change course …
For almost a week, young Clarissa had planned her suicide. The pills were stashed safely at home in the medicine cabinet, waiting for their big moment … every remaining minute that she lived seemed tragically epic in some way. She ticked off each event as her last. Her last homework assignment. Her last bedtime. Her last breakfast. Her eating disorder ate her insides, and she could not crawl out of the wreckage of her failed life.
Seven true riveting stories of people in San Diego. Seven lives, each careening toward a disastrous, tragic end …
Until beautifully altered by an unexpected collision.
First speed, then cocaine, then meth. Now single and pregnant — unloved and unlovable Katie, a hopeless addict, couldn’t wreck her life any more than this. Or could she?
The San Diego streets sucked Marco in like fumes to a crack pipe. In and out of juvie, this violent gang member turned felon — assault with a deadly weapon — kicked his crime sprees into high gear. A drug dealer addicted to meth, he was proud his gang chose him to splatter fear at rival gang hangouts with drive-by bullets. Even when slammed with a 10-year prison term with a pregnant wife at home, Marco refused to change course …
For almost a week, young Clarissa had planned her suicide. The pills were stashed safely at home in the medicine cabinet, waiting for their big moment … every remaining minute that she lived seemed tragically epic in some way. She ticked off each event as her last. Her last homework assignment. Her last bedtime. Her last breakfast. Her eating disorder ate her insides, and she could not crawl out of the wreckage of her failed life.
Seven true riveting stories of people in San Diego. Seven lives, each careening toward a disastrous, tragic end …
Until beautifully altered by an unexpected collision.
High Seas: Rescued from the Deep in Petersburg, Alaska. Lighthouse Assembly of God. Petersburg, AK.
Anyone familiar with the mighty forces of the High Seas knows that it doesn’t take a tsunami to highlight the stormy changes in the ocean waves. Many times the lives of those who dwell along those shores reflect the violence of inner forces showing the same kinds of stormy up and down changes.
Carl raised the gray pistol to his head. He closed his eyes and braced for the impact, hoping he would feel it for just a second, and then opened his eyes. There was a sound, somebody calling his name ― but then again, it wasn’t a voice at all that he heard. It was kind of like a breath, just one breath. Still he understood it perfectly …
Collapsing on the floor of her bedroom, Nancy gasped for breath. Her shaking hands grasped the carpet, bands of fear squeezing the air from her chest. Her heart pounded in her ears. It was her first panic attack. But it definitely wasn’t her last …
Tony was born with an eye disorder and was adopted by a single mother even with all the accompanying labels placed on him: He had a learning disability. He was emotionally disabled. Tony found himself in a holding cell at the police station and came face-to-face with an awful truth: He needed help. And the help he needed, no one could give …
Come ride the waves of these true-life stories of real people who have weathered storms and have found hope and refuge in High Seas: Rescued from the Deep in Petersburg, Alaska.
Carl raised the gray pistol to his head. He closed his eyes and braced for the impact, hoping he would feel it for just a second, and then opened his eyes. There was a sound, somebody calling his name ― but then again, it wasn’t a voice at all that he heard. It was kind of like a breath, just one breath. Still he understood it perfectly …
Collapsing on the floor of her bedroom, Nancy gasped for breath. Her shaking hands grasped the carpet, bands of fear squeezing the air from her chest. Her heart pounded in her ears. It was her first panic attack. But it definitely wasn’t her last …
Tony was born with an eye disorder and was adopted by a single mother even with all the accompanying labels placed on him: He had a learning disability. He was emotionally disabled. Tony found himself in a holding cell at the police station and came face-to-face with an awful truth: He needed help. And the help he needed, no one could give …
Come ride the waves of these true-life stories of real people who have weathered storms and have found hope and refuge in High Seas: Rescued from the Deep in Petersburg, Alaska.
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