Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." – Martin Luther King Jr.

The odds were stacked against me from the start. Raised in poverty with a father who rejected his children, my teachers and the police were convinced I had no future and would wind up in prison. As I battled addiction and depression and dabbled with crime, all the while haunted by defeat, my path seemed set. But God had other plans, and over time, he turned every stumbling block that had b...