From Where We Were: A Memoir of Faith and Redemption

At the heart of Ron Taylor’s gripping memoir of addiction, surrender, recovery and, ultimately, redemption through faith is a sincere and powerful message: DON’T GIVE UP BEFORE THE MIRACLE HAPPENS. His story has inspired others to change destructive patterns and find the will to live from a place of deeper purpose. EXCERPT: Maybe there is such a place as “rock bottom” but no one ever told me that it’s more like a bottomless pit. You just keep tumbling. In my scattered mind, lying in that hospital bed, things could only get worse and the only way to fi x this was to die. I didn’t want to face the fact that I was the problem and I wasn’t sure I had the emotional or physical strength. At 35 years old, after 20-plus years of drinking and drugs, I felt like total crap. Sure, I’d had hangovers before that probably could have stopped a herd of elephants. This was unlike any I’d ever had, uncharted ground in the field of self-misery.