DON'T STAY in the VALLEY

<p>For twenty-six years I worked side by side with people with addictions. These were people with serious problems. Alcoholics drug addicts cigarette smoking gambling you name it--I worked with them. Also mixed up in the group were ex-convicts child molesters with mental problems too numerous to count.</p><p></p><p>I can't begin to say how many times I thought of these people as useless misfits and wondered why they were even able to live. Offering helps was always refused. I was told time after time that they didn't have a problem; it was me who had the problem. Things changed dramatically when God pointed out to me that I was hopelessly addicted.</p>