Charlie’s battle with alcohol was intense and sobriety was allusive. He said, “I didn’t know how I got sober, I couldn’t figure it out; I guess it was never meant to be for me to figure it out. But it was a mystery, still is, when I speak at places where I go and when I see people, I say, ‘I don’t know how I sobered up.’ And I just have to, I just have to say the Lord just come into my life one day and this is what came out of it.”

Charlie’s childhood experiences of physical, mental and sexual abuse left him a hating, cold and violent person who for forty years succumbed to a life of alcohol, drugs, crime and self destruction. Then, one day God got his attention.

The drinking and drugs so easily could have taken her life… and then there were the thoughts of suicide. But everything is different now. Darla tells about how God changed her – he took away the drinking and drugs, the anger and hatred… and now she’s a new person.

Darla shares with painful honesty how broken and difficult life was. Hers is a story of simple survival. Abuse, drugs, poverty, anger, hatred… these marked her life. One day she came across an old partying friend whose life was now so different. Was it possible that Darla’s life could change too?

War has a way of changing people. That was Jimmy’s story. He had medicated the memories for Vietnam but that didn’t lead to anything good. In fact things got worse. He was on a dead end road… the road to hell. But then one night something happened that would change his direction – and his life – forever.

Living at home with his biological family was difficult. The longer Ted lived there the less hope he had. At age 15 he finally reached a point where he had had enough. He walked out of the house and went back to stay with his foster family where he knew that he was loved and accepted. But while he was there, he would learn about a love that surpassed even that of his foster family.