In February 2004, a chaplain from Springs Rescue Mission visited Shannon in jail and invited him to join the New Life Program. “I found a Bible in jail and started flipping through it, and that’s where my relationship with God really started.” “I was tired of destroying my life and everything in it,” he said. This time, it was a blessing in disguise. Soon after that, he was back in jail for another 90 days for possession. Within months, Shannon lost his job and the house. “So, I turned back to what I knew - I started doing meth again.” “I wasn’t happy in my relationship or with my work, and I didn’t have a relationship with Christ,” he said. But the storm was still swirling within him - it was just a matter of time. He met a girl, had two kids and found success in the construction business. Shannon spent his early twenties focused on building a family and a career. At the time, it was the best thing that could have happened: incentive to get sober and stay clean a reason to stay out of trouble. Soon, Shannon was arrested on drug charges and sentenced to 90 days in jail along with six years of felony probation.
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“I had friends, but I didn’t know how to really connect with people, so I started replacing those relationships- those connections - with substances.” “I was 18 or 19, getting high and selling meth,” he said. Unfortunately, those friends were smoking and dealing meth - and Shannon soon followed suit. He spent the remainder of his teens pretending to be an adult: he got his own apartment, was working full-time and made some friends. He was over the high school experience and dropped out at age 16. I just really had trouble connecting with people.”Īfter his parents divorced, Shannon began getting in fights and smoking cigarettes, then marijuana. “But I struggled socially, I struggled at school and I struggled at home. But just below the surface, a storm was brewing in young Shannon. On the surface, Shannon had a happy childhood in a solid, middle-class family.
“Since I made a decision to start following Him 17 years ago, that’s what I’ve wanted most – to grow up.” “Christ is my model of adulthood,” he explained. Shannon describes himself as the “kid who just wants to grow up.”
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