My name is Dee Dee, I am 40 years old. My experience with the RU program has forever changed my life and my relationship with God and others. I was raised in a very religious upbringing and have been instilled with beliefs of God, Jesus , and the word of the bible. As I began to become a teenager, I fell away for my teachings and began to run with the wrong “crowd” of people and thought because I was strong in faith that God would not let anything “bad “ happen to me……..this is where my story began……..and the devil moved in on my life…..I continued my “unhealthy” lifestyle, moved out of the family home, and was soon married to an alcoholic and drug addict.
I thought that I could save this person because I was strong and had my faith. To my dismay and to prove to you readers and those new to this program that without God I was not strong and THE DEVIL KNEW IT! I found myself waking up many years later as a lost child from God who had gotten “strung” out on drugs, doing anything that became available to me, in and out of county jails, treatment facilities, rehabs, hospitals, and alienation from the family that loved me.
I had done all the traditional “programs” that courts had ordered, tried the self-help…..that became the self-destruction, and I remembered crying out to God for his help. My relief came after landing in the county jail once again. I received a tract from another inmate who said “you want this I’m throwing this out, I don’t need this, I can do it by myself”. I read it and found what it said to make a lot of sense, to what I already knew about God and his love. The first principle IF GOD IS AGAINST IT SO AM I, played throughout my head and found myself looking around the room at just what was going on and how God would feel about it, and how I felt about it, from that moment change began.
Next was the most powerful moment in this journey. First Baptist Church came and had a program for our chapel time, I saw an array of people come in happy and proud in their faith. Three individuals stood out. First was Lonnie and Cheryl, they gave their testimony and shared their experience and I felt like they were talking straight to me, I saw myself right there in tune with each word, I WANTED WHAT THEY HAD…..happiness and the love of God in my life. After that I scheduled an appointment to see someone with the RU program. At that visit Ruth came to see me and I knew at that very moment I was doing what God wanted to do. My relationship with her was instantaneous and I knew she would be my mentor for this journey I was about to take, but would I know how much this impact would be on me.
I did everything she told me to do , she gave me the daily journal to do and gave me the first overcomers book. I saw the difference in my life and so did others, what I wanted from those from RU, was coming true and others around me were then wanting what I had, so I shared about what I knew from RU. I worked the program while in the county and met with Ruth regularly, it came the time to leave, which by the way was 20 days early, and I called Ruth the very next day and told her that I would be at the RU program that Friday. I got there with open arms and a peacefulness I had not felt for years.
The RU program and God has saved my life and given me back all the wonderful things I thought were lost.
To sum things up for you, before RU, I was a homeless addicted, who was alienated from my family and children, I had lost hope, given up and did not care. I was living the typical addict life, stealing, drugging, and destroying my life and hurting everyone around me. I have been actively doing the RU program for 10 months now and I am amazed at all the wonderful things that are and are continuing to happen for me. I have a good job, my mind and body are healthy, I am living back with my family and children, whom said they would never have anything to do with me (THAT IS A GOD THING….PRAISE GOD!), and I am out of the abusive relationship and engaged to a wonderful man named Jim, who is involved with the RU program also. God never gave up me, and he led me to RU and the wonderful family I have developed there………so if like myself you feel lost or have tried everything with no positive results, know that there is and answer…………..THE RU PROGRAM, and the love of god!!
It has changed my life and it will yours also, because God does for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and the RU family helps addicts like me find our way back to God and guides us in rebuilding our relationship with him. Thanks to The RU program Child of Christ, Dee Dee
