Bruce Lee, Enter The Dragon

I love you, Nyota.

You’ll always be my girl! You helped revolutionize my life when after I turned on you with my Nunchucks poised, like Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon, to the ready, and you lwith those sad, beautiful eyes of yours glazed over with tears, said, “Stacey, it’s so hard being your friend.”

Those few crucial words nailed me to the core of my denial about my addiction. You were right, I had changed. I allowed the heroin and the lifestyle that came with it change me.

Not long after, I became unrecognizable to myself.” It was impossible to be my own friend. Slowly, surrendered everything I had become; and cried out to God and asked Him to save me from self-destruction.

He did! 24 years later, I’m still clean, free, and grateful to God and for you.

Stanice couple of wks b4 Nyota's Words

I love you, Nyota, for the truth you told me even though I was not ready for it. It lingered there and chipped away at the wall until with God being my Helper, I broke FREE!

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Audio Clip. 

Perhaps, you’ve never experienced someone holding you hostage, I pray not; but captors have many faces and names.  What do I mean?  What has held or is holding you hostage?  Cigarettes, bad relationships, inertia, low-self esteem, sex, pornography, chocolate, work, alcohol, illegal drugs,  your past, prescription drugs, unforgiveness, resentments?

Listen and try to relate to the feelings, as I read a portion of my story, In The Lion’s Den.  One of over 40 true life-stories included in my memoir, I Say A Prayer For Me: One Woman’s Life of Faith and Triumph (Walk Worthy Press/Warner Books).  Perhaps, we are more alike than different.      Stanice Anderson – In the Lion’s Den