Meet Lee
My name is Lee!
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I was an atheist for 30 years or so and my story begins at the age of 17 when I left home after a fight with my "Dad" and ended up living in at the YMCA for 4 years. When I was 21 I left the YMCA to make my way in the world travelling and working in Scotland for a while and doing whatever I could to make some money to live. By the time I was 32 I’d done ok for myself and was a qualified hairdresser, married to a hairdresser, and we were "living the dream" as we had a good business, owned property and all went very well for 5 years.
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There were problems in life but I managed and then, one day, my wife told me she didn’t want to be with me anymore and did not love me anymore and that she wanted a divorce and my world collapsed. I spent the next 3 years alone, searching, until I was persuaded by a customer to join him on a trip to Australia for a few months. One day I was alone on a beautiful beach and burst into tears as I realised that wherever you go your problems go with you!
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I returned to Leicester, still a confirmed atheist but then reluctantly agreed to go along to an Evangelical Church with one of my customers Darryl where I heard Ian McCormack telling his story and I was left cold. Darryl gave me a copy of a little book “No God, No Peace. Know God, Know Peace”. I carried on with my life convinced I didn’t need anybody and started drinking, having suicidal thoughts and then I actually attempted suicide. I ended up in a padded cell, in a strait jacket not knowing how I got there.
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I had to sell everything, I received some counselling and then when life seemed to have little to offer, on the 16th September 1996 I read the book “No God, No Peace Know God, Know Peace”, I prayed to God and he spoke to me and I gave my life to Jesus.
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God told me how important I was to him, he said he’d never abandon me and never stop loving me and told me to phone my mother and tell her that I loved her BUT that God loved her more. I was confused but called my mother anyway and told her that God loved her more than I did and she burst into tears.
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Later, my mother poured her heart out to me and I learnt that I was an illegitimate child from an affair my mother had and that my father was not who I thought was my father! I realised that I’d missed my real father and a father’s love, and found, in God, a father who has filled my life with so much joy, peace and happiness.
Having given my life to Jesus I now know for certain, this way of life is for me.
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I have now been happily married to my wonderful 2nd wife Lynn for over two decades - thanks be to God!
