Our Stories, by John
I was born in a small mining village called Cowdenbeath. I started my life in prefabs, then when I was around 3 years of age we moved into a brand new council house. I was one of four in my family, I had an older brother and sister and a little sister. My father left our new home when I was about 4, it was all a bit vague at that age why he left. He would still come to the house and take us out every Sunday, then it stopped all of a sudden. It was one day he promised to take me to a big football match and he didn't turn up. He broke my heart that day and I felt totally rejected and worthless. My Mother, Godbless her soul, had to bring us up as a single parent in the seventies. It must have been difficult for her and my Grandmother used to help when she could but she was getting old. My Mother did the best she could but there was no discipline in my life.
I can remember my first taste of alcohol, it was a miniature of whisky. I can remember stealing it then filling it up with water after I had drank it. The taste was not good but the effect was amazing. I was only 8 years of age. From then it was the beginning of a journey that was to end in total chronic addiction. I used to steal from my Mother for cigarettes. She would give me a good hiding but that didn't stop me. I started smoking at ten years old, at Primary School. I was told several times at this age that I could make a professional football player but it was already too late as I did not have the discipline or the dedication. I was already well down that slippery slope.
Looking back, my alcoholic drinking started at the age of 12 years old, I can remember my first real drink, it was a bottle of cheap home made wine in Kelty, near where I lived. I drank the bottle in two gulps and was in oblivion before I knew what was happening. Then every weekend after that I would drink in the same manner, not knowing why or what was wrong with me. Then, from the ages of 13 to 15 years of age, I was glue sniffing and I was always up for anything that got me wasted. There was one event at 14 years, I drank so much cheap wine so fast that I ended up falling asleep in the snow. If the police had not found me I was a dead young teenager. Even that was not enough to stop me from drinking and taking drugs.
I was 15 when I was introduced to cannabis, LSD and amphetamine. From then on I was always the one in the corner so messed up. I have been urinated on, drawn on and shaved and all sorts of other things that you can imagine that goes on at parties. I used cannabis all of 25 years, every day.
My drinking calmed down a bit for a while when my son came into my life. That lasted only 5 years. During those years my speed and ecstasy intake increased went up. My life became screwed up and perverted. I split up with my son’s mother and that’s when my drinking kicked back in and I really became alcoholic in the last ten years of my life. Till I got clean and sober, thanks to the intervention of the Lord Jesus Christ, from the age of 30 to 40, I was drunk almost every day of my life, sometimes in blackout for days. I ruined so many good things through my drinking. Then I got to AA and that’s when I got the Lord Jesus Christ in my life. Don't get me wrong, it took me a while to grasp it as I was in and out of AA thinking I could beat my alcoholism but it is an illness that you can't beat. Only the Lord's Divine intervention could beat my illness of alcoholism.
It was August 14th, 2007, when I finally took the advice and got on my knees and surrendered myself to God. I repented and begged and pleaded with Jesus to take away all my pain and He did. That very night the Lord came into the pokey wee bedroom I was living in and the only way I can explain the intervention was like something pouring warm water over my head to my toes. I then slept for 12 hours, the first time in 10 years. I arose the next day and felt the desire to be in oblivion was taken away! The desire to be permanently stones was also gone. I truly believe it was Jesus Christ intervening into my life. My life has totally changed from that day onwards. I started to read the Bible and go to Church, AA and started to learn to live in a different way from ever before.
I have been clean and sober now for nearly 2 years thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ. I pray morning and night , thanking the Lord for keeping me clean and sober. I have been baptised and now play guitar and sing in the Worship music team in my church. I am enjoying life clean and sober and it's all thanks to my Saviour. I am now looking to work in the field of addiction.
I am now happily married and at Bible College So, if you think you can't get out of what you are in, try and hand your life over to God.
Godbless
I was born in a small mining village called Cowdenbeath. I started my life in prefabs, then when I was around 3 years of age we moved into a brand new council house. I was one of four in my family, I had an older brother and sister and a little sister. My father left our new home when I was about 4, it was all a bit vague at that age why he left. He would still come to the house and take us out every Sunday, then it stopped all of a sudden. It was one day he promised to take me to a big football match and he didn't turn up. He broke my heart that day and I felt totally rejected and worthless. My Mother, Godbless her soul, had to bring us up as a single parent in the seventies. It must have been difficult for her and my Grandmother used to help when she could but she was getting old. My Mother did the best she could but there was no discipline in my life.
I can remember my first taste of alcohol, it was a miniature of whisky. I can remember stealing it then filling it up with water after I had drank it. The taste was not good but the effect was amazing. I was only 8 years of age. From then it was the beginning of a journey that was to end in total chronic addiction. I used to steal from my Mother for cigarettes. She would give me a good hiding but that didn't stop me. I started smoking at ten years old, at Primary School. I was told several times at this age that I could make a professional football player but it was already too late as I did not have the discipline or the dedication. I was already well down that slippery slope.
Looking back, my alcoholic drinking started at the age of 12 years old, I can remember my first real drink, it was a bottle of cheap home made wine in Kelty, near where I lived. I drank the bottle in two gulps and was in oblivion before I knew what was happening. Then every weekend after that I would drink in the same manner, not knowing why or what was wrong with me. Then, from the ages of 13 to 15 years of age, I was glue sniffing and I was always up for anything that got me wasted. There was one event at 14 years, I drank so much cheap wine so fast that I ended up falling asleep in the snow. If the police had not found me I was a dead young teenager. Even that was not enough to stop me from drinking and taking drugs.
I was 15 when I was introduced to cannabis, LSD and amphetamine. From then on I was always the one in the corner so messed up. I have been urinated on, drawn on and shaved and all sorts of other things that you can imagine that goes on at parties. I used cannabis all of 25 years, every day.
My drinking calmed down a bit for a while when my son came into my life. That lasted only 5 years. During those years my speed and ecstasy intake increased went up. My life became screwed up and perverted. I split up with my son’s mother and that’s when my drinking kicked back in and I really became alcoholic in the last ten years of my life. Till I got clean and sober, thanks to the intervention of the Lord Jesus Christ, from the age of 30 to 40, I was drunk almost every day of my life, sometimes in blackout for days. I ruined so many good things through my drinking. Then I got to AA and that’s when I got the Lord Jesus Christ in my life. Don't get me wrong, it took me a while to grasp it as I was in and out of AA thinking I could beat my alcoholism but it is an illness that you can't beat. Only the Lord's Divine intervention could beat my illness of alcoholism.
It was August 14th, 2007, when I finally took the advice and got on my knees and surrendered myself to God. I repented and begged and pleaded with Jesus to take away all my pain and He did. That very night the Lord came into the pokey wee bedroom I was living in and the only way I can explain the intervention was like something pouring warm water over my head to my toes. I then slept for 12 hours, the first time in 10 years. I arose the next day and felt the desire to be in oblivion was taken away! The desire to be permanently stones was also gone. I truly believe it was Jesus Christ intervening into my life. My life has totally changed from that day onwards. I started to read the Bible and go to Church, AA and started to learn to live in a different way from ever before.
I have been clean and sober now for nearly 2 years thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ. I pray morning and night , thanking the Lord for keeping me clean and sober. I have been baptised and now play guitar and sing in the Worship music team in my church. I am enjoying life clean and sober and it's all thanks to my Saviour. I am now looking to work in the field of addiction.
I am now happily married and at Bible College So, if you think you can't get out of what you are in, try and hand your life over to God.
Godbless
Above; We are now fit and able to enjoy life and the beautiful God given countryside in healthy
pursuits like hillwalking. This is in Stirlingshire, one of the first Munroes I have climbed. This
would have been impossible when Iwas abusing drugs as I could hardly walk the length of myself.
After getting clean from drugs and alcohol, John, his 2 sisters and I walked the world famous West
Highland Way, a gruelling 96 miles of sheer torture!
We now do all the things we dreamed off whilst still caught up in the hellish nightmare of addiction.
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