Unfolding Short Stories: "He came and got me." Ryan Graves
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Graves thought he was a Christian, but a near-death experience and over a year of hospital stays due to alcohol abuse, was the wake-up call that led him on a new path of passion for Jesus.
Now, Ryan shares his journey of end-stage liver disease and the Good News of the Gospel with anyone who will listen.
You can learn more about Ryan's journey at his website.
https://thesoultrek.com/
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| 0:00.0 | God's story, your life. |
| 0:06.1 | Unfolding short stories. |
| 0:10.4 | About five years ago, I was pretty convinced I was a Christian, pretty convinced I had a decent grasp on things. |
| 0:18.1 | I was a software engineer, but I couldn't stop drinking. I had been a |
| 0:22.4 | really bad alcoholic for about 30 years since I was about 14. Started getting a little bit |
| 0:28.8 | sick here and there, got pancreatitis really bad, and was diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis, |
| 0:34.9 | acute pancreatitis. I don't know if you've ever had it or know anybody |
| 0:38.1 | that's ever had it, but it's extremely painful. When I pancreatitis the first time, and when I was |
| 0:45.1 | diagnosed with it being chronic, I had hit my knees that morning on a trail at Smithville Lake here in |
| 0:52.5 | Missouri, and I was like, how can I not kick this? And I was |
| 0:57.0 | begging God to please help me out. Well, he did, but he did it in that form instead of a different |
| 1:03.3 | form. It wasn't like I woke up and the birds were chirping. I got extremely sick. So that was |
| 1:09.5 | the answer to that. |
| 1:11.3 | And it was very loud and clear to me that that's what had happened. |
| 1:16.1 | So I did okay with that for a while. |
| 1:19.5 | Went to Texas and then COVID hit. |
| 1:21.5 | And a lot of people that battled addiction had a rough time with that too. |
| 1:25.2 | So I kind of started dabbling again. I didn't have anything to do. |
| 1:29.4 | The gym was closed. The parks were closed, everything. So I had started again, not horribly, but enough. |
| 1:36.9 | Of course, smorgicotitis attacks and went to the hospital a couple times. But this time, I had started walking by the mirror, and I was dropping weight, like 10 pounds |
| 1:48.2 | a week. |
| 1:48.8 | And it was all muscle because I had spent a ton of time in the gym and a ton of time out running |
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