Trina’s from Death to Eternal life

I was broken without any hope and strung out on heroin.

I barely was seeing my kids and I was using so much that it was impossible for me to even buy food clothes or logging. I was only trying to stay high. Living on the streets working 50 hours a week just to stay high. I remember looking at the TV and seeing this Beaches commercial with these happy people and I wanted to be happy so bad. I was reaching for something different I couldn’t continue on that path. I reached out to my Mom and told her everything. She immediately send two bus tickets to a sober living in Las Vegas where she lived. That’s where I encountered God. That deep suffering I felt was gone. It was replaced with peace, love and Joy almost immediately. My life had purpose. But I had a lot of amends to make and still a lot of changes were happening that normally would have me getting high but I didn’t the Lord was with me I was no longer in anguish. He gave me a new life . I kept learning new understanding of God, and kept going forward because he is with me and has never left me and never will. I love him with all of my heart for that new chance on life.

I was one way and now I am another way. My Lord saved me from the depths of my hell when I thought there was no way out. He gave a dirty sinner like me a new life and a place in his kingdom. For that I am eternally grateful.

Now I have my kids and have been sober for almost 10 years. I am happy. I still go through hard things but it is easier to handle because he is with me. He gave me a new life and to me this is amazing grace I was dying inside but no more. I live an abundantly full life.

When I got back from Las Vegas to return to my kids to find out my ex had been using pretty bad. My kids were broken and sad from being told that I didn’t love them and I was never coming back. It was really hard to come back to but now my kids know that I love them and have Christ in their lives as well. They know who they are in him. They are his children.

I am so grateful that this life is not the end. That I was given that opportunity in Las Vegas to surrender my life to him. To have a a place in heaven just by excepting the free gift that Jesus gave us when he died upon that cross and took my sin and shame with him. He tells us plainly all who believe in my will not perish but will have eternal life. I know that when I die I will see him face to face.