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Hope
"I was spending more time running than I was spending with my wife and my kids."
I remember her beginning to cry. She asked me, “Before you leave would you mind to watch this video?” So she comes in and puts this video on and leaves a little box of Kleenexes next to me.
"I was raised in the church. But through my teenage years, I got a little wild and did things I shouldn’t have done."
"From that time on I realized that you never know. The next time that you get off the airplane walking through the airport, you may be killed."
"I feel like I have been plugged into this eternal power source"....
"He’s freed me from drug addiction. He’s freed me from suicide. He’s restored my life completely."
I had twenty-seven operations and four plastic surgery operations. When I got out of the hospital nine months later I looked okay on the outside; but inside I was still wounded.
“Sir, because Jesus Christ has healed all the pain that was associated with my experience here in Vietnam. I can say to you, “I love you and God loves you.” When I said that the interpreter began to bawl.
But I couldn’t escape the idea that suicide would be a good escape. It was like I was holding on the casket of my wife, and as morbid as it sounds was like I was being buried. I remember picturing myself breaking my grip with...