Page one of the unfolding is the story of Joe Buchanan.

I made a deal with this God that I didn't believe in.

I said, God, if you're out there, you better turn my life around by this date.

Because if you don't, I'm calling it quits and you're going to have to clean up the mess.

God's story has been unfolding.

Since the beginning of time.

He invites you to be a part of it.

Another page in the unfolding.

Hi, this is Meredith Foster. What if you grew up believing you were unlovable? What kind of person would you become? Many people believe Joe Buchanan would end up in prison on drugs or dead. It would take a supernatural act of love to change his path. Just a word of caution, Joe's story is a hard one, and it does include some PG-13 content. I was born in

Kentucky back in the 1970s, and my mom was really young. She was like 15 at the time. Parents weren't married. My mom got pregnant with me

and her father basically told my dad with a shotgun, if you will, so it was like a shotgun wedding.

You will marry this woman. And so my dad did. But my mom had a lot of issues growing up. And so she came from a very abusive background, very poor

background. My dad tells a story of when they first started dating. He gave her a six-pack of Pepsi

for a present. And it was like the best gift that she had ever received in her life. And so he was

her rescue, if you will. And I think that's how he felt about it as well,

that he was going to be able to rescue her. So they had me, less than a year later, they had my

brother. And my mom just couldn't, being a teenager, couldn't really deal with the stress and everything that goes into being a mom

and never having really a good example of a mom. So my mom turned out to be really abusive.

That's kind of how it manifested herself for her. And so just a lot of different kinds of

abuse from physical abuse to being locked in closets and

bathrooms and my mom would disappear for a day, a day and a half sometimes and it would be just me

and my brother. These are the earliest memories that I have. When I was four, my mom decided that

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