Nikki’s Story
My life was an unending cycle of drug abuse, living on the streets, using and abusing my body, playing the neverending cat and mouse hustle of how will I be getting my next fix...not even to get high anymore, just so I wouldn't be sick. I was so tired. So hopeless. I tried everything to be better. I'd go to rehab, get clean for a little while, get the job, the apartment, all the stuff...only to lose it all, again and again and again.
Heroin was like a person to me, that toxic relationship you know will eventually kill you, but you can't breathe without it. Every time you try to walk away, it calls you, haunts your waking moments and your dreams with the memory of the warmth, the taste, the feeling...always leaving out the destruction, the emptiness, the darkness, until you're right back in the middle of it again.
Before I was led to the Faith Home, I wanted to die. How much lower could I possibly go? When I went to the Women’s Faith Home in January of 2011, I had no idea that I was about to find freedom, that I was never going back. I had no idea that through this place called the Faith Home, I was about to meet Someone who would change everything, forever...Someone who was better than any high I could ever experience. Jesus... I was a lifelong atheist, and this was the last thing I ever expected. But here He was, and He was calling MY name. In all of His goodness, all of His majesty, all of His holiness...calling my name. I will forever be in awe of that.
I will thank God for the Faith Home for the rest of my life…the place that led me to my Savior! Life in Christ has been way beyond anything I could ever imagine. He's better than any of us can imagine. If you’re reading this and you don’t know what I’m talking about…He's calling your name too. It's not too late, and you’re not too far gone. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done, He’s calling you home. He really can do the impossible, and He really makes all things new. He really is that good, that kind, that compassionate, that wonderful. And He loves you.