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People ask; “What’s your biggest success story?” I’ll say; “Staying married.”
"I really wanted to call him and say, “I’m sorry for what I had done.” Months earlier if you’d asked me I wouldn’t have admitted to have done anything wrong."
All you really have is love and that’s like all you have to give. There’s nothing else out there. Everything else is fleeting.
"I said to myself, “Okay God if I die tonight, I’m going to die obeying you.”
"I never realized the God that they serve is not the biblical God. The reason I didn’t realize it is because, as a Mormon, I never read the word of God."
"Sometimes a man is not grown at twenty-five, thirty, or just because he has a family or kids. He is grown when he takes responsibility as a man, you know."
Then God said, “Trust me. You don’t have to trust him. Just trust me.” I said, “OK.” So I turned Lonnie over to the Lord and said, “OK God, I trust you. I’m gonna move forward.”
"My dad, my mom, me, and my baby sister would all sleep on a mattress in the truck bed."
"It launched with force. It slammed into my chest. The top claws, the front claws were all up by my face and by my neck.......... I was twenty four years old. I didn’t want to die."