LIFELINE REQUIRED
Greetings everyone my name is Scott Saye and I was asked to write a small testimony about how Celebrate Recovery and the Lord have changed my life.
In March of this year my life was on a downward spiral. I was consumed by my addictions and had lost all hope and belief in myself. I was drinking pretty much all of the time and taking mass quantities of prescription painkillers. I pretty much didn’t care about myself or anyone else. I felt like I had to have the booze and the drugs just to function in everyday life. I would get up in the morning and drink 6 to 8 beers before going to work at 10:00 AM. I would take painkillers throughout the day just to keep a buzz until I got off work. After work I would continue drinking until I would pass out or it was gone. This was a cycle that I had been doing for 12 years. I had tried to stop many times by myself or through A.A. or through secular programs. Nothing had ever worked. The longest I was able to stay sober was 6 months. So basically I had given up all hope and kind of settled in the fact I was going to Drink and drug myself to death.
Well one morning I woke up after another night of drinking and taking pain killers and something had come over me. I didn’t want to live like that anymore.
I didn’t know it at the time but it was the lord speaking to me. That very same day I quit both my jobs because I was a bartender and I knew I could not be around it if I was going to try to get sober. I checked myself into detox at Owensboro Mercy. I stayed there for 4 days. The day I was supposed to leave I got a visitor Tom Wedding. I had met Tom briefly from a program I had been attending the year before called Celebrate Recovery. We talked for a while and I told him my desire to overcome my addictions. He asked me if I would be interested in coming back to Celebrate Recovery. At first I didn’t want to because I had fallen the past year when I was in the program and had stopped coming all together. I was embarrassed and ashamed and didn’t know how the people would accept me if I came back. Eventually Tom talked me into going.
It has been about 2 months since I have started going again. I was dead wrong when I thought that people would shun me. The people of this program welcomed me back with open arms. They are very loving, caring, good hearted Christian people. Through their help and the Lord I have been able to overcome my addictions and have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. I leave tomorrow for Lifeline Ministries for 6 months. I will miss everyone terribly. I want to thank everyone for their love and support and to anyone that reads this to know there is hope and you can overcome anything through our Lord Jesus Christ.
I have been attending Celebrate Recovery for about 2 1/2 weeks now. Strange things have been going on in my mind. I’ve attended about 10 meetings. I know that’s alot but it help me, I never thought about being free of this.illness called addition. I belived that I was born that way & would stay that way, even when I was sober. Then I meet a man he said I could be healed from this. He Prayed with me and told me to read John 14&15 I could not belive it, It was like Jesus was there with me. Saying those words to me. It had a profound effect,but not enough to keep me from stoping. I still have a desire to drink. But I believe now that it can be taking away. That day I read the words that Jesus said. I’v come to believe I can be transformed. So I’ll keep going to meetings,read Gods word more, getting help through prayer. I know there is power in prayer, my dear mother has let me see it. Well I think that’s enough for now. Oh yea the man who lead me to this. Thank you so. Richard Goodall. You Gave me a new way to look at myself & the world we live in God Bless Thanks so much. Irwin T Luttrell. .