"The truth is, I can walk through that church that I grew up in with my head held high because I know that my God has changed me."
"I actually told him that. “I’m not in love with you anymore."
Carrie prostituted herself for drugs. As a registered nurse, educated and articulate, she never expected to go so low.
"I would stab myself with a sewing needle. Or any kind of needle. Just to feel that pain. To know, you're still here. You're still human. You're still alive in some way. To make that pain, just show what I felt on the inside....
"He did cross the line, and I became a victim of what we now know as date rape. Thirty years ago that's really not what it was called. Since I did go into the bedroom with the guy, I blamed myself for many years..."
"I was so afraid that they were going to be mad at me because I had been lying to them all this time."
When I was twelve the Lord woke me up one night and instructed me to pray for my future wife whom I had never met.
She noticed the holes in my face. She was like; “Oh, you’ve got a lip ring?” I said; “Yeah, I had to take them out to get a job, you know, working for the man.”
I didn’t know what to do because I felt distant from God, while serving in the singing ministry. I