Daniel's Heroin after the accident

He has been clean from heroin for 11 months now, but currently lives on the streets. However, the most positive part about his story is the fact that he is indeed clean.

Daniel lives in Murfreesboro and for the most part, keeps to himself. His first taste of heroin came a couple of years after a car accident.

It was the car accident that landed him on prescription pain pills. When the doctor stopped writing prescriptions for the pills, he said that he needed to continue… so he did, eventually with heroin.

Daniel’s Story (Below) 6 MIN and 50 SEC:

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A talk with God

He was lying on his back in a small downtown Atlanta, GA park when I walked up to him on a sunny Sunday morning. With curiosity I asked, "What are you doing, you look very content?" He continued to smile without looking over at me while I was standing to his left. "I am talking to God," he stated.

Mother Teresa said, "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls." This young man at age 27, finds that to be true.

Homelessness appeared to be far from his mind... Thankfulness for life is what I witnessed.