My name is Randy from Anchorage, Alaska and my life was built upon material things of this world.  I could never be satisfied.  It did not matter what amount of money I made, what woman I had, or what I had accomplished.  I was never content with what I had.  This obsession began at a young age.  My need for self-satisfaction started with candy and video games.  As I began to grow up drugs and alcohol took their place and over 20 years this obsession with myself and feeling good led me to jails, penitentiaries and near death.  I lived a life of excessive highs and excessive lows and took the people I loved the most down with me.  It was exhausting running the world.  I made many determined attempts to get clean and sober on my own and after a short period of sobriety, failed every time.  I came to a place where I was broken and hopeless.  I was resigned to the fact that I was just a bad person and would never be able to change.  This is when God began in my life.  He connected me with people who would ultimately lead me to the Wings of Life Christian recovery center in Mobile, Alabama.  My current surroundings were so filled with stimulations that were not of God that He had to place me where I could be completely saturated in His presence.  I arrived at the Wings of Life hopeless and afraid.  It was at that point where God gave me the courage to make one last effort.  I had to take a step toward Him, which I did and He ran to me like a lost child.  I did not even know how to pray let alone trust in anyone other than myself, and of course look what my best thinking had done for me!  In time God let me experience His peace, peace which surpasses all understanding.  This peace was a high unlike no other.  Without negative consequences!  It was then He revealed to me that nothing in this natural world will ever satisfy me.  Today all that I am required to do to receive God’s grace is to spend time with Him and honor Him.

When I returned to Anchorage I was faced with the financial, relationship and emotional wreckage of my addiction.  Day by day, step by step, God is leading me out of these problems.  He has given me the answer I have searched for all my life.  He was filled the void that I filled with drugs and alcohol.  In short order, God is dealing with each one of my issues.  My house payments are caught up, my co-workers are seeing the “real” me, my circle of friends has completely changed, and most of all, my children  know and love their father for who he really is. Finally, He has given me purpose.  I wake up daily and offer myself to Him and He satisfies my every need.  All glory to Him who has given me salvation.  I’m a child of God who never wants to grow up and I am a radically transformed follower of Jesus Christ!!!