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EDUCATION: Holt High School, Holt Mich., Lansing Community College, Southwestern Theological Seminary, National Apostolic Bible College. MINISTERIAL EXPERIENCE: 51 years of pastoral experience, 11 churches in Arizona, New Mexico and Florida. Missionary work in Costa Rica. Bishop of the Districts of New Mexico and Florida for the Apostolic Assembly. Taught at the Apostolic Bible College of Florida and the Apostolic Bible College of Arizona. Served as President of the Florida Apostolic Bible College. Served as Secretary of Education in Arizona and New Mexico. EDUCACIÓN: Holt High School, Holt Michigan, Lansing Community College, Seminario Teológico Southwestern, Colegio Bíblico Nacional. EXPERIENCIA MINISTERIAL: 51 años de experiencia pastoral, 11 iglesias en los estados de Arizona, Nuevo México y la Florida. Trabajo misionera en Costa Rica. Obispo de la Asamblea Apostólica en los distritos de Nuevo México y La Florida. He enseñado en el Colegio Bíblico Apostólico de la Florida y el Colegio Bíblico Apostólico de Arizona. Presidente del Colegio Bíblico de la Florida. Secretario de Educación en los distritos de Nuevo México y Arizona.

Monday, February 20, 2017

THE PSALM OF AN ADDICT



King Heroin is my shepherd. I shall always want.

He maketh me to lie down in the gutters.

He leadeth me beside the troubled waters.

He destroyeth my soul.

He leadeth me in the path of wickedness for effort’s sake.

Yea, I shall walk through the valley of poverty and will fear all evil,

For thou, Heroin, art with me.

Thy needle and capsule try to comfort me.

Thou strippest my table of groceries in the presence of my family.

Thou robbest my head of reason. My cup of sorrow runneth over.

Surely Heroin addiction shall stalk me all the days of my life,

And I will dwell in the house of the condemned forever.

This psalm was found on a card by a police officer in a phone booth. On the back of the card was this note:

“Truly this is my psalm. I am a young woman, 20 years of age and for the past year and a half I have been wandering down the nightmare of the junkie. I want to quit taking dope and I try, but I can’t. Jail didn’t cure me. Nor did hospitalization help me for long. The doctor told my family that it would have been better, and indeed kinder, if the person who had first gotten me hooked had blown my brains out. And I wish they had. My God, how I do wish it!”


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