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By Thomas Kimble
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Inner strength is something we all have, but the ability to reach in and find it can come at a high price. I found my inner strength after suffering from a great personal loss. My ability to find this inner strength did not come easy and only with the Lords help was I able to survive.
It all begin with the loss of my wife of over 22 years due to my thinking I could drink and drive without any problems. I was luck enough in the past to be able to drive and drink with no problems. This time I had the misfortune to run into another drunk that thought he could drink and drive too. The particulars of the accident are not what are important, what’s important is the outcome. My wife was fatally injured and I came close to death.
After my release from the hospital I had nothing left to live for and started to drink and take all kinds of drugs. On many occasions I was on the brink of ending my life but for some reason I didn’t. I had no belief in God or anything else. I reasoned that if God did exist he wouldn’t have let a good woman like my wife die and leave someone like me to go on. People around me were helpful, but they soon tired of hearing about the accident and turned to different subjects to get away from talking about it to me.
One night in utter desperation I did the only thing left for me to do. I tuned to God and ask for help. I had no expiations of receiving any help from a God I didn’t believe in, but God believed in me and stepped in to change my life forever. I ask God to help me make the right decisions and to turn my life around. God took me at my word and started to change my life. At first he only made little changes and I didn’t even notice until I realized the I was reading the Bible every day. I had tried to read the Bible before and it didn’t make any sense to me, but now things started to come together and a new feeling was coming over me. I no longer wanted to drink and drugs were out of the question I started to look at people with understanding instead of anger. I started to feel pity for people with problems instead of thinking of them as fools. I begin to realize that my problems were not so big after all when I stopped to see what others were going through.
None of these things would have ever been possible for me if not for the help of a God that I once cursed and didn’t believe in. I still have a long way to go to become the person that God would really want me to be. I keep trying every day and I ask God to watch over me and help me not to slip back to the way I used to be.
Today I know in my heart there is a God and I can’t believe I ever thought God was not there. I do the best I can to help others find God because I know how God helped me and I know God can and will help anyone whom asks. God is the one true thing in life we can all believe in, everything else is subjective.
Thank you God for showing me my inner strength and allowing me to use it.
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