Lately, good things keep coming to Ed. "It's the good Lord working in me," he believes. "If you trust in Him, He'll trust you. Out in the streets I couldn't do anything right. Now everything is running smooth as silk and I want to keep it that way."  Ed didn't start using drugs until 1997. He was 59 years old with a wife and children. Once the drugs took hold, he lost them all. "They'd see me on the street and wouldn't talk to me," he recalls. "Now my kids call me every day to ask how I'm feeling. There's no way in the world I'm going back out there."

It took getting arrested to bring Ed to Open Door Mission. "The judge told me I had to go into rehab, and I chose Open Door Mission," he says.

On the Mission's New Life Recovery programs , Ed attends classes that help reshape his thinking. "I need to do what I have to do to get back into the lives of my wife and my kids. I'm erasing all the bad people I hung with and bad things I've done from my mind. I'm replacing them with good things like the Lord, church and prayer."

Recently, Ed received word that he has a job waiting for him when he leaves the Mission. He's hoping to reconcile with his wife, too. "But I'll have to prove I'm not using anymore. I have to act like I did before the drugs."

Ed is determined and enthusiastic about his future. A few days ago, his counselor asked if he intended to stay clean after leaving the Mission. "As long as I have Jesus, I'm going to do it," Ed responded. "No slipping and sliding."

"And that's how it will be...We shook on it!," - Ed

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