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"...I just continued to drink kind of hoping that at one point I'd go to sleep and not wake up and that would be the way out of the misery I was in."
—Jimmy Heath
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GOOD NEWS NETWORK SEGMENTS
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Jimmy Heath: Journey of Rebirth
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"I wanted to be dead but I didn't have the courage to outright kill myself, so I just continued to drink and I was hoping that, at one point, I would just go to sleep and not wake up and that would be my way out of the misery that I was in," Jimmy Heath reflected, eight years after he found recovery for his alcoholism.
"He was just was so pale and so sick, so very, very, very sick. It was terrible. They didn't think he would make it." says his sister, Jennifer.
"At the time, all I was trying to do was survive," says Heath. "I didn't realize how much my spirit was dead, how empty I was, how hollow I was inside."
Rescued by the Drop Inn Center in Cincinnati's Over The Rhine community where he still lives, Heath gradually embraced a program of recovery and began to use his photography skills to bring awareness to the plight of the people in that inner city neighborhood.
Today, he is editor of the Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless "Street Vibes" newspaper, he teaches photography to kids in the neighborhood and has become a strong advocate for the homeless and the urban poor.
"God plays a part in all of it...I have to put my life in His hands and say, 'I don't know what you have planned for me today but I'm going to trust that You will carry me through.’"
http://www.jimmyheath.org
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