Student #4

Psalm 40:1-2 says, "I waited patiently for the LORD: and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings."

There were many times, at home, that I was totally at a loss. I would look at my life, and it made no sense. The only thing that made a little bit of sense was to keep going down the wrong path, doing the wrong things, because of the temporary feeling of satisfaction it gave me. But deep down, I knew that the way I was living was wrong, and there had to be something better. I had started hanging out with the wrong people my freshman year in high school, and I got caught up doing some bad things.

There were many, many times that God tried to get my attention, but by that point I had totally given up on Him and didn't care anymore.

The morning of December 3, 2004, I left my home, on the way to Florida. I knew nothing about where I was going or what the place was like. I just felt relieved because I was leaving everything behind. My coming to the Lighthouse of Northwest Florida was God's divine intervention in my life. From that point forward, He worked in my life in a marvelous way. Like Psalm 51 says, He really did create in me a clean