And the crux of the issue for me, Todd, is life. That’s right. If somebody’s moral compass is off on a baby being a baby in the womb, then what else is off with their moral compass? Welcome to the podcast. Today, David Harris Jr. is with us and I just had a 45minute period where I was just crying and we were sharing testimonies and it was beautiful.
man, can you tell people that don’t know who you are, who you are, basically how you got saved, like let’s start there, if you don’t mind. Yeah, I could do that. Uh, I’m uh married 31 years to my high school sweetheart. We have two daughters. Our oldest daughter gets given us two grandb babies.
So, I’m a father, a grandfather, been a business owner since I was 20. I started my first company when I was 20 years old. And I’m obviously a part of the black community. My dad’s black, my mom is white. So, uh, I had quite the identity crisis as a teenager growing up in Red in California, mostly predominantly white area.
Most my friends were white and then, uh, most of the black kids all hung out together and they would, you know, take shots at me, you know, cuz I wasn’t as dark as them. So, I had a real, uh, identity crisis. Didn’t really know who I was. I grew up in the church. I read years later in my uh, my mom’s baby book that I was filled with the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues at seven. Yeah.
and I had a scripture verse memorized for every letter of the alphabet and I’d get on shoe box and I’ I’d preach it and then my parents divorced at nine and I went to live with my dad and uh we didn’t go to church anymore. I felt the uh the disconnect of having a father that’s there for you and as a provider.
He’s there for you as a protector but he wasn’t there for me. I didn’t I received love the five love languages, you know, uh I received love uh words of affirmation and physical touch and my dad just that wasn’t that wasn’t him, but he would provide and make sure that uh you know had a roof over my head and close my back and so I’d go live with my mom in the in the summers after they divorced and she’d give me words of affirmation and you know hugs and you know kisses and all the things moms do and I would just feel so loved and then I’d go back and live with my dad for 10 months out of the year and not get any of And so I grew really rebellious. I grew
really resentment, angry towards my dad. And then um early on in uh my uh teenage years, 15, 16, somewhere in there, I started smoking weed and that led and drinking and that led to everything else. And then before I knew it, I was the guy that had the connection.
So I had a pager on that would go off 50 to 100 times a day. And mostly people wanted weed, but whether it was mushrooms or acid or or crank or whatever, I would I could I could get it. And so I was the guy at the party everybody wanted to hang out with cuz if you hung out with me and then you’re at a party you’d want what I had. I was so lonely and so empty inside. And it was just a it was a facade.
At one point I had several girlfriends and the point was just to have a girlfriend to have affirmation, you know. Yeah. It wasn’t even to be really physical with them. And uh if they liked me then that was that made me look feel good and feel better about myself.
And then um I met this girl at this party and I was just like something was really different about her. I had stopped seeing everybody else. So, seeing her and then her mom um didn’t know obviously I was dealing drugs and her mom had left on a church retreat for Bethl church, right? We’re in Reading. Her mom was supposed to be gone till Sunday.
So, I showed up at my my girlfriend’s house on a Saturday night and I was high and I had some, you know, weed with me and I had some a big bottle of wine and and her mom felt like she was supposed to leave the retreat and come home. I had just got there so we weren’t doing anything. And then her mom comes in. Now, her mom was a single parent. Jennifer was her only daughter. She was uber protective. Super protective.
