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Anatoliy Trygub

I was born in Chernigivshchyna in Pryluky. I got married and hoped to have a happy life. We did not have children. I stayed late at work to drink a bit and talk to my friends. I did not consider myself to be an alcoholic. I thought everybody lived like that. My wife did not want to bear me any more (she was from educated family and worked as a teacher) and asked for a divorce. I was mad at the whole world and began to drown my sorrow in a bottle. I moved in with my father in the village and we drank together. I did not think about changes. I understood that nobody needed me in my condition. It became harder with each year. I looked older by 10-15 years, especially when I drank for a long time. I worked randomly, helping anyone who asked me. I spent the money I earned primarily on alcohol and cigarettes and sometimes I bought food. Then I had developed epilepsy because of alcohol consumption. There was time when I could not get out of my bed for several days because of too much alcohol in my body. My limbs refused to function. There was nobody with me so I had time to think about my life and to talk to God. I cried to Him and asked Him for my death.

But God had other plans for me. I asked God’s forgiveness in a little village church where the majority of visitors were elderly ladies. Later, hiding from Christians, I smoked and drank again. But I could not hide from God. In 2005, a pastor from a neighborhood church found the address of the rehabilitation center “Transformation” in Borokhiv and suggested that I to go to Volyn. I stayed here because I found my place in church and found my destiny. All my dreams came true - I have family. I always dreamed to have a child and now I have 3 children: two of them my wife had before marrying me. They wait for me to come home from work, kiss me and call me father. One is our common child. We have big family.

If you need change in your destroyed life, just know that everything can be changed. God does not have unanswered prayers. He cares about your pain and sorrow. If you come to Him, He will certainly help you!