Georgia

My name is Georgia. On behalf of CK I stand here today with boldness and honor to share my journey with you. I stand here today because I had a praying mother. Many things about childhood were very hard.

But my mother prayed throughout it all. My father was an alcoholic, but he worked and paid the bills and put food on the table. He also beat his family. There were lots of sleepless nights for my mother, my siblings and I. My mother was not well, she had high blood pressure and diabetes and the beatings were not healthy. She couldn’t protects us from things far worse than beatings when she was ill.

But she still managed to find the strength to pray. She said that prayer was the answer for everything. She said it was the phone line to God and he would always answer. She said, “Never give up”. As time went on, the Lord took my father out of our lives.

Unfortunately, I started using drugs to hide the pain of my abused and battered family. I became hooked on heroine. By this time, my mother had had 2 more children, but suffered a stroke that left her paralyzed. They gave her 6 months to live. I dropped out of school to take care of her. When she died, I was left alone with these 2 younger kids and I didn’t know from day to day how we were going to eat.

But my mother said that the Lord was the answer to everything. I remembered her saying, “Georgia, you got to get to work on the Lord! Let him take care of you. God has a plan for Baby, she would say. Trust Him!” She said this even when she knew I was using drugs. Somehow God gave me the strength to get up every day and send my little brother and sister off to school.

But my body was slowly dying. Every day when I woke, I asked the Lord to make my addiction go away. I did not want to use today. But I could not get away form it. So I started praying and asking the Lord to send my to prison because He did. I was infor 2 ½ years and came out clean and sober. In prison….

I got out in 2003, moved to Spokane, met my husband and we were married in 2006. I am a member of AME church and am an usher. Recently I was asked to help with the prison ministry.
I started school for my GED across the street from Christ Kitchen.

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