I ended up getting on my knees right there in my bedroom. I didn't have a tract that had, you know, 'here's how you pray to receive Christ' on it. I had never seen a tract in my life. I had never read a Bible.

I was trying my best not to drink. I'd go a day or two, and I just couldn't stand it. It kinda got around that 'Hamilton got religion.' So for about a year, it was the most miserable time of my life because I was secretly still drinking. One night I came home, after about a year of this, and I woke up the next day and the desire was gone.

Memory calls us back, Mystery draws us forward.

I have no clue who that old Jim was. God has certainly transformed me into a different Jim.

I didn't know what I was doing, but I knew I needed God in my life.

I was running from God, but I didn't know I was running from God. I didn't know that.

I couldn't imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out.