James started down a dark path at a young age, but when Christmas of 1987 came around God gave him a serious wake up call.  James woke to find his kids running into the living room where the Christmas tree was only to realize that there were no presents for them under the tree because their dad had spent all his money on drugs instead.  This shocked James into the realization that drugs had overtaken his life, and he got clean for good.  But as James cleaned up his life from drugs there was another, deeper darkness that began to take up residence in his heart and life instead of drugs, and that darkness led James down a path that ended up with a longer than life sentence in prison, a hopeless end for the rest of his life...unless God stepped in.