“God showed up when I was in that place in the darkness. I [had] kept running from the truth that there was a God. From that point on, I began to trust in God.” —Ray
Late one night, when Ray was 14, he heard his mother cry for help. He kicked the door in to find her being assaulted by her partner.
To defend himself and his mother, Ray repeatedly struck her assailant. Weeks later, he was arrested and charged with attempted murder and placed in a juvenile residential facility.
At that time, he learned that his mother had taken back her partner, despite the assault, with little concern for what happened to Ray.
“I had so much hate and anger against him and towards God for allowing this to happen,” Ray recalls.
This experience, as well as physical abuse Ray suffered at the age of 10 from his stepfather, left him unable to trust anyone. It sealed Ray’s decision to face life on his own.
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