The Living Water Story

God still still performs miracles. I am living proof.

On October 17, 2021 I received an unexpected call from a close friend, Nagina “Gin” Daneker. I hadn’t heard from her in months. She and her husband, Stephen, have been helpful to me during the past two years. They had spent countless hours talking with me, encouraging me, praying with me, and counseling with me.

She continued by telling me that God had spoken to her and told her to call me. She indicated that she fought against it at first but decided to be obedient to God…even if she had to do so kicking and screaming.

Gin told me that she knew that I had been drinking. Whoa! That took me by surprise. After all, how could she know? God revealed it to her. I acknowledged that I had been drinking, and had been doing so quite heavily. I had resumed drinking during the past year to deal with feelings of loneliness and depression, trying to fill a void in my life. And I was drinking heavily… usually a 12-pack of beer every single day. This was my [futile] way of trying to ease the pain that I was experiencing in my life. I knew that it was slowly killing me, but I didn’t care. I felt as if I didn’t have any hope and I had lost my purpose in life. I didn’t have the ability to love myself. These feelings were expressed in a song that I had recently wrote.

Whatcha gonna do when the sun goes down? Another day of running and you’ve hit the ground You can’t stop crying, the tears just runnin’ dry You’re staring at the bottle and you sit and wait Longing for some hope but you isolate
You wanna be loved but can’t even love yourself

– – The Burning Flame