I'm sitting in an old coffeehouse, listening to bluegrass music, and enjoying a great view of a wooded, snowcovered hillside, while drinking a strawberry mango smoothie. Can life get any better than this? My life can't.

Yesterday the owner of Alldredge Academy came and talked to the kids for an hour or so. At one point he asked if anyone present was a recovered addict. I raised my hand, and then noticed I was the only one with my hand up. He asked me if I was sure if I was truly over my former addiction and I said yes. He asked me if I would like to find out for sure and I said "yeah".

So I went up in front of all of my kids and coworkers and he told me that he can know for sure whether I am truly addiction free. I was pretty nervous, because my job was kind of on the line. He put three fingers down at the bottom of my spine and told me that if I was still addicted he would be able to tell exactly where the addiction lived in my body, then he would pull it away from my spine, which I would be able to feel, and then I would want to puke. None of that happened to me. It happened to everyone else he did his trick on, but I didn't feel anything. He tested my strength before and after his experiment on me and my strength hadn't diminished. He asked me what I had been addicted to and I reluctantly told him that I was formerly addicted to pot, alchohol, and acid/shrooms. He looked at me in awe and said, "something major happened to you didn't it, something huge." I smiled and said, "yeah".

My coworkers already know my testimony and I felt like this was proof of the dramatic change Jesus has had in my life. Some of the students came up to me and asked me if I could share my story with them later.

I praise God for leading me to Alldredge and to Davis, WV. I still don't have many friends down here but everything else is amazing. God is helping me deal with a bunch of my issues, and my joy is increasing every day. His healing hand is upon me.