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

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.

My life and my plan wasn't very good, but at least it was my plan. It got to that point that I just couldn't stand it any more.

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

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

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

My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.