 We got into a car crash. We were driving down an icy, icy road and the car started sliding and When I flew from the passenger seat into the driver seat My life flashed before my eyes and what I saw I wasn't happy about My name is Andre Suffrich. I was born into a Christian family. I was raised by Christian parents, but along the lines my path Kind of wandered off as I was about 16 years old I got introduced to a marijuana. I started looking to marijuana as something to numb my pain something to To kind of get me out of this world I thought that I was a treated very unfairly by my parents because my siblings got all the attention that I thought I deserved some too, but It was just one of those things that the enemy tried to come against me and try to destroy me and it worked and It was about after I graduated high school I I got into modeling and I thought you know that that would fill the gap I thought that that would fill the void inside, you know the acceptance from you know peers and people who would look up to me But it only made it deeper. I thought that you know, I would get this fame this glory But you know it's still inside that was emptiness still inside I was looking for something that would fill that pain Something that would fill that rejection something that would be someone that would accept me for who I was and it wasn't It wasn't long until heavier drugs found me It wasn't long until alcohol consumption started becoming higher and higher and you know Do I followed after that and I was thinking, you know, this is this life is pathetic This life is worthless though the life I live. I mean, it's not the life I wanted before I'd go to sleep I would have to smoke or drink and that's not who I was because you know, I wanted to be happy I wanted to be loved And it wasn't until after the car accident, you know, after I made that promise to God, you know, I was gonna change my ways and Just afterwards I got home and I smoked weed again. I was thinking, you know, oh Coincidence that you know, I got out alive. Yay me. I'm lucky But deep down inside it was no longer the same feeling I got it was no longer that high I was looking for and that night I laid in my bed and I cried out to God For the first time I actually cried out to God and I say God, I don't want this anymore I don't need this this, you know, destroying my life and Just the still voice inside inside my head is saying that, you know, give it to me and I didn't understand because you know to me I always thought that you have to be perfect You have to you know straighten your life out. You have to you know, follow the Ten Commandments live holy live righteous But the still voice just said give it to me. I took that punishment. I took that pain I took that rejection. I took that shame on the cross and I hung it there and it stayed there So why are you carrying it? And to me it sunk so deep. I Cried that night. It was just for almost no reason But deep down inside I knew that God was working on my heart and not too long afterwards God set me free completely from smoking marijuana God set me free from drinking alcohol to access I started going to church. I started becoming an active member in the church I started reading my Bible daily praying daily seeing what God has in store for me seeing what God has placed in his word So I could learn the only regret I have is that I didn't do this sooner because my life is a complete change Even though the journey is hard, but I know I can overcome I know that there's greater power that lives inside me that helps me overcome all the challenges in my life I