Candlelight Memoirs True Stories

Yes, he was given the power and glory of riches and fame. Yes, he was one of the most admired beings on the planet. Yes, he gave the world music. The real man behind the myth was not about peace and love. He was man who chose to abuse the gift God had given him and serve the enemy. Many years have passed and the image of illusion still did not come to light even for me. I myself did not really want to know the truth about this individual. I craved God's gift of discernment to overcome this illusion that I carried with me for many years. I did not want to live the deception any longer. Deep in my spirit, I knew that this person had lived a godless life of adulteries, orgies, drunkenness , drugs and false doctrines. This is everything I stand against. It is also everything Christ stands against. God gave this person many chances in life to repent and use his gifts for the good of mankind. The sad reality the man did nothing for humanity other than babble a few good chosen words of e...

One evening as I stepped out my front door I spotted this lost black wallet that was sitting off to the side of the stairway. MMMMMmmm, I thought, I wonder if there is any money in it. I fetched the wallet quickly and discreetly put it in my vest pocket. My husband and I walked across the street to a secluded area outside of a church. I opened the wallet and lo and behold, there was over three hundred bucks in it. My temptation was rising. I thought at that moment about jumping in my car, keeping the cash and ditching the wallet in a dumpster in some back alley. At the same time a cloud of guilt for even having such thoughts overcame me. It happened that the owner of the wallet was someone who lived in our area. I recognized his mangy homely face on his ID card inside of the wallet. The temptation once again became strong because I did not like this person because he was a low life drunk. I thought about my own situation where me and my husband were short on cash at that time. The extr...