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HOW JOSHUA DAVIES OVERCAME LIFE'S DIFFICULTIES

iat'show Joshua Davies was made to lood.He was born out of wedlock and Worthless father wanted nothing to do with him A few short years lats Davies'grandfather died After an attempt to grow close to the only family he had left, he was molested by an uncle.

"Questions began to fill my head Doubts,depression—I became more and more into myself and hardly had any frier The hurtins of me beqa know where to go te began to build likea snowball I didn't who to trust, what to do,"he said

Tother began to attend Farmington Heights Wilson,N.C A few months later, during a New Ye; :elebration,Davi ie a Christian While his step-grandmother was battling cancer,he found out his mother also had cancer.

As his mother began chemo, Davies began a sp attlewithin himself "During these years itwas very hard to comprehend how God could letthis happen to my mother,to the rest of my family and to me

Davies'mother passed away during hisjunior year of high school

"The lossofeveryone around me began to make me feel so alone inthe world,Davies said "It seemed as ifmy lifewas nothing more than a mistake."

"Iran out of hope. Iran out of everything.Ihad to make the decision to do one of two things:to completely give up on life, God and everything inbetween and justend my life, orto the decision to do one i God everythinc callon God to save me from this life."Davies chose thelatter

Two years later D to attend school here. that God started to reveal the things he had instore for me He began to show me that through allofthe past and loss of my earlieryears,he was carrying me through itall,not putting more on me than Icould bear."

Davies now knows the callGod has placed on hislife "I am called to be a catalyst,no matter where God sends me He doesn't want me to be anchored inanything other than Him and Him alone My past isstill there,but every day Ihave to remind mvself that Iam a new creation."

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