As someone who, for about 6 years of my young life; had a drinking problem. I find this story to be most inspiring.
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The Story Via CBN:
NEW YORK — From the early 1990s to just a couple of years ago, Laurie Dhue was a familiar face on network news.
She has the distinction of being the only person to anchor at the three big cable networks — CNN, MSNBC and most recently Fox News, where she served as anchor from 2000 to 2008 and also hosted her own weekend show.
But behind Dhue’s impressive careers, glamorous looks and rising star status, was a painful secret she hid for more than a decade. She was an alcoholic.
I do very highly recommend that you do go and read this story. Not to make this about me; but I can personally relate to this story. For about six years of my young life, from around 1992 till 1997 — I was horribly a backslider and “living in the world”, as it is called. At first, my drinking was on the weekends. I would go to the bar and drink just enough to get a slight buzz and come home. Then, I graduated to the hard liquors. Then, I started wanted to go to the bar every day. I was becoming, what my Grandfather (My Mother’s Father) was; a working alcoholic. I also had a nice two and a half pack a day smoking habit too.
But this is the part that I can relate to here:
“I drank to make myself more interesting to other people,” she continued. “And I drank to make other people more interesting to me. When the truth of the matter is, I was very interesting the way I was, and alcohol wasn’t doing me any favors. When I realized that, I was ready to get sober, because I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. And I got down on my knees and begged God for help on the morning of March 14, 2007. I said, ‘I cannot do this. God help me, and that’s when I knew the fight was over.'”
Which is, without over-hyping anything; what happened to me. I was just sick and tired, of being sick and tired; of everything — being separated from Lord, of going through the routine of drinking and waking up hung over, of smoking and feeling like a iron was on my chest. I was just burned out of the whole scene. The fun was over, especially after a personal and close friend of my just dropped dead of a massive heart attack at age 42. That was when it was quite obvious, that the party and fun times were over for this old bird.
In September of 1997, not long after my friend passed away. I made one of the smartest decisions that I could have ever made; I went to Detroit World Outreach in Plymouth, Michigan and dedicated my life back to the Lord. At the time, DWO, as it is called; was Pastored by the now late Dr. Jack Wallace. Much has changed since that time, If you go to my “Christian?!?!?” page, you will see what has changed. I still believe that Jesus Christ died, was buried and rose again on the third day and now sits at the right hand of God the Father. I just left Pentecostalism for some very personal and Biblical reasons. But I still believe, that my name is written in the lambs book of life and one day, I will be reunited with my family and friends who have went before me and I will finally get to meet the Lord.
Check out Laurie Dhue Recovery Resources on facebook and her Wikiepedia entry.