Left for Dead… Touched by God
My story begins on August 29th, 2002. Like usual I dropped my wife of 23 years Larissa off at work and wake my best friend and employee Paul. He had recently come to stay with us after becoming homeless. I would later find out there was a spark between them when they first met. I had a contract with a customer to do some painting that Paul was driving me to. I arrived at the jobsite around 10:30 a.m.
I was not thinking clearly because of the drinking and drugging I had done the night before. I remember fighting the evil voice in my head telling me to put a telescope that was in the home into my car. Against my better judgment, I put it in my car. The owner returned home and asked me why the telescope was in my car. I was scared and didn’t wanna cause a scene or commit any violence to get away.
I told my customer to call the police, and I waited for my nightmare to begin. I was originally charged with a non-violent burglary. I had plenty of money to bail out of jail, but my wife and Paul cut the phone off and took all my money. I wanted to die! The two most important people in my life betrayed me. This pain and abandonment consumed me.
One day, this younger guy showed me this thing called the Bible. That is when my outlook started to change. I started to suffer from abscessed teeth while in jail. They were given antibiotics. The infection came upon me with great pain and a high fever. My left side of my face swells. My mouth swelled shut to the point I couldn’t eat. I was starving and in severe pain. I cried out to the nursing staff and was told that our friend’s telescope was missing. O Yeah…. My victim was the Director of Victims Advocates. After about 5 days, I was losing strength, and the pain was driving me insane.
Finally, after 7 days, I was taken back to the Dentist. He forced a rubber wedge into my mouth and scraped into the infected socket. Tears flowed down the corners of my eyes, and I was shackled like a dog. The Dentist then filled the socket with medicated gauze and instructed me to take it out later with a toothpick. I guess he forgot I was in jail, and no written order was given to the jail. This caused a disease in my head called Cellulitis. I thought the pain and stretching of my head would explode. After 12 days, I was taken to the ER. The jail then offered me a PR bond in hopes that I would not bring suit against them. Less than 2 days later, on a cold December night at 2 a.m. I turned on my cell light and asked a guard for pain medicine in but I was told the nurse forgot to leave it for me.
The guard told me to turn my light off, and he left. I got up and placed my Bible back on the steel bunk, turned my light out. As soon as I touched the Bible, my cell became bright with light that bathed me. The guard returned because he thought I had disobeyed him. This light was sent from heaven. This divine light bathed my sick body and healed me completely. No more pain! God’s word is all I have had for over 10 years, no mail, visits or phone calls.
If God comes to my aid through this testimony, I will go to Prisons all over the world to give the testimony God gave me to His glory. I don’t know what it would take besides a miracle for my charges to be put back as non-violent. The state justifies a law that if a person has two or more priors, they can make a non-violent crime into a most serious violent crime. In 1988, I pleaded guilty to 5 non-violent burglaries. I broke into pinball machines to support my drug habit and was illegally sentenced. I was sentenced to one day and not separately. I am not a violent person. I did not kill or rape anyone but was given 20 years and 1 year later my charge was changed to 1st degree burglary and most seriously violent.
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Also Read:
- Men in the Bible: Abraham and White Lies (1)
- The Benefits of Wisdom: Deliverance from Seduction and Sexual Immorality
- Taste of the Apple
- Stagecoach Trail
- Build your Trust (Getting into School)
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