“I was going through a lot of hurt and loneliness; I didn’t feel like I added up. I had one very close friend, and I was thinking about suicide; we talked about it, like I told her, “Maybe it’s the only way out.” And then I heard somewhere later, that if you do that, you…
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When alcohol is your master, it effects every part of your life. For some, it comes on slow. But eventually you begin to realize the grip is not you on the bottle, but the bottle on you. Ted speaks candidly of his journey to find freedom, and the demons he faced along the way… including…
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Gordon’s problems with the spirits weren’t over just yet. “When I went home, the stuff was still in my home; the odors, the foul voices, literally torment…”
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Gordon tells the story of a strange incident while in the hospital recovering from a heart attack: “I was laying in bed and I heard these voices call out to me, ‘Gordon, Gordon, Gordon’. I thought somebody was by the window; I got up. I had a heart monitor on – I wasn’t connected to…
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“Early on, in Milwaukee, I got into trouble as a young man with a lot of other friends. We weren’t a gang as such, but we had a lot of trouble that we got into, to the point where it took me before the judge when I was 16 years old, 17 years old. And…
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When he arrived home in St Theresa, Ernie was so troubled by the thought of dying that he couldn’t rest. He decided to go to Garden Hill and talk with someone who he thought could help him with his problem. It was a man he heard talking about Jesus on the radio.
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On a flight from Winnipeg to Garden Hill, Manitoba, Ernie was paralyzed by fear because he couldn’t get this question out of his mind. “If you were to die at this very moment, where would you go?” He didn’t know the answer and he shares how he sought to find it.
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Because of a sickness when he was a little boy, Ernie was unable to do things that other kids could do. Early on he learned that education was important and he became a teacher. Alcohol was also important to him but it was ruining his life. One day, he was confronted with a frightening question…
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Abuse almost pushed Carroll over the edge. “I remember this one night, I said, This is enough of this, and so I loaded up the rifle when we went to the bush the next day, and I just hid behind a tree, and I see my dad coming, I cocked the old rifle, and had…
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The loss of their son in a car accident was a heavy blow to Gilbert’s family. Questions go unanswered and the pain is hard to bear. Is it possible to find hope and comfort in the midst of such tragedy and grief? Listen as Gilbert talks about these things from a tender heart – as…
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