A man describes hitting bottom, feeling his life was ashes, then surrendering to God and returning to church. His marriage healed, his wife laughs again, and he learned that surrender transforms brokenness into meaning. Church attendance alone doesn't fix things, but genuine surrender to God does.
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God can take a wreck and make it a message and take beauty out of ashes. And I was fit and I had some ashes and I was fixing to have a big, even bigger, bigger set of ashes. And, but I finally just got back to where I surrendered, you know, and we went to church all the time, you know what I'm saying? We kept going to church. Just because you go to church doesn't mean hard things can't happen. You know, but, but, you know, it's like I would go in there and, and it just, it is, it is what it is. But when I finally said, you know what, here I am, God, I know this ain't gonna be, this ain't gonna be fun and this ain't gonna be easy, but let me tell you what, it's been a hell of a ride and it's been fun. And, and to see what God can take and do, uh, is, has been one of the greatest greatest things ever because me and my wife, we're back to laughing with one another. We're back to— she's wanting to go places with me and it's— I'm pretty sure she was excited, was getting ready to be excited when Market was coming along. And then so I'd get the hell out of the house, you know what I'm saying? Be a whole lot easier for her and Blaze. And it's It's been one of them deals. It's— but now that I got God back where God's supposed to be, it's good.