- Drugs
- Faith
Seven Years Clean & Climbing
Hello, my name is Anthony, and my story is not that different than the
next person’s. I named it “Seven Years Clean & Climbing,” because seven
years ago was the last time I got high or used drugs. In 2005, a devastating
force of nature by the name of Hurricane Katrina changed my life forever. I was
a victim of crack cocaine for a very long time, it wasn’t until Hurricane
Katrina that I realized I was in denial. This monster, took control of my life
and I didn’t even know it– or I didn’t want to know it because I was in so much
pain. I found myself in California after I was displaced from New Orleans, no
family, no money or job. I was all alone or so I thought. Little did I know
that “GOD” was seeing me through the hardest time in my life. I lived
in a homeless shelter for almost five years after I got out here to California.
My home was Martha’s Kitchen & Village. There I rebuilt my relationship
back with “Jesus” and he showed me the way back to “GOD.”
There’s more to my story, we can get into that at another time; I just wanted
to let those of you who are out there lost that there is a solution; you don’t
have to be afraid. You’re not alone; all you have to do is ask. As GOD as my
witness it will be okay.