AshleyDel

“And that was the grace of God.”

“Of course the lady was asking me like, “How did this happen?” and I’m saying, “I don’t know,” and that’s not a good enough answer. So this time, DHR didn’t question it, they took her. Earlier that day I was talking to the director of The Dream Center, the rehab I had been at before, and she was saying, “I really want you and the baby to go to Hosanna Home.” and I said, “Okay, I’ll go.” So, she…

“I decided I was going to commit suicide.”

“I remember this one day my car got a flat tire, and we were stranded in north Birmingham and it was like 20 miles to this guy’s house, and we had to walk 20 miles’ home. But on the way back to get my car, on the road that we were on, there was a brand new tire that fit my car sitting on the side of the highway. And I was like “THIS IS A SIGN FROM THE LORD! Now will you go to church with me?!”…

“He’s the Prince of Peace”

“I was on meth really bad for the next three years. Within a week I had like 5 guys living in my house, shaking dope. I thought it was great at first; I had dope whenever I wanted it, I had the security of thinking these people really cared about me. But really no. They just wanted somewhere to be. A new spot to hang out, cook dope, and do whatever they wanted, and I let them. My parents didn’t…

“From that first hit, I probably didn’t see the end of that for the next three years.”

“Where I’m from you don’t get pregnant without getting married. And my dad is a business owner and he’s well known in the community and that was unacceptable. So we got married and we moved in with his parents and, it was physical abuse from the time that we got married. It was just the same chaos again and I don’t know how it got to there. I still wanted to get high every day and my husband…

Robin, Part Two: “It was nothing like the pictures I had in my head”

“I remember we went to the hospital and I remember waking up at the hospital because my dad was kicking the bed, like “WAKE UP!” like he was SO mad. He woke me up and I was like “Oh my God, did I really just do this?” like OH my God. It wasn’t like remorse, like “oh I’m not gonna get high again.” It was like “oh God, now they know.” So they knew. I was working for my dad at the time, he owns his…

Robin, part one: “They had no idea that I was doing any kind of drugs until that point.”

Robin is 26 years old and originally from Birmingham. She has reddish, brownish hair, pretty, pale, clear skin, straight teeth and big, round, brown eyes. She’s wearing a white tee shirt, gray sweatpants and has sunglasses sitting on top of her head. The following is her story; “I grew up in a small suburb type community that was pretty upper middle class. I went to the same school my whole life.…

What to expect…

….when you’re expecting. Just kidding…anyway. So I made a facebook status earlier about something new that Pastor Rick Hagans inspired me to try for my blog. I’ve been sick of writing about myself, my experiences and points of view, etc..honestly, sometimes the more I write my own story, the more annoyed at myself I get. So once again I ended up in a writing rut, and was producing nothing and…

it’s been a long time…

It’s been a long time since I’ve written on here; obviously. I can’t really explain why I stopped, partly because the further out of rehab you get, the more life gets busy. Eventually I got a “real job” and was back in school. I moved out of Hosanna Home, but still stay involved and volunteer there. I also got married (hey!) and now live with my husband in the same area. I am still in school…