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Megans Testimony

This is the testimony of my wife and how God saved her..... Jeremiah 33:3 says," Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know." Almost five years ago this scripture became real in my life. My name is Megan Hanges, I am 25 years old. I grew up in a really good home, I had great parents. They treated me right, they obeyed the laws. We were a regular middle class family in Lubbock, Texas. I was an only child until my cousins moved in with us. They became like my brother and sister. My uncle moved in with us as well and for a long time he was an alcoholic, he would bar hop, gamble and come home drunk. I don’t remember this but I was told by family that I learned to sneak in my uncle’s room at night after he was passed out drunk and steal money from his dresser for my mom. Praise God he eventually went to rehab. We were always busy playing sports on the weekends and weeknights. It was rare that we had a night off ...

A different perspective

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I walked into Walgreen's tonight to get some cold medicine. I am still very careful as I walk down the same aisle I once explored to find my tripping equipment. As I am reading the ingredients in the back of the box to make sure there is not any DXM in it (a distant but dull temptation still remains as I laugh it off)...right then--- I see in my periphery two young men approach and talk to to each other on which type of cough syrup they are supposed to use for "it." I didn't have to think twice.....I already knew. These guys are planning on tripping tonight.  I turned and faced them and looked into each of their eyes. I was looking into a dulled and cracked mirror of the person I used to be. All I could say at first to them was "Be careful.." They looked at me in a sort of shock that I knew what they were about to do. I explained to them how I did DXM for almost five years and wound up in the psych ward. I was brief and left with the final warning "Jus...