New Life
Michael Walsh Story
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I was born in the fall of 1960 in a small town named Olean, in Western New York. We went to Saint Mary of the Angel’s school and church until my parents divorced, I was twelve years old. My three sisters and I stayed with our mother. We left the church and never really participated with church activities again as a family.
My older sister got involved in illegal drugs and I followed suit. Within a short period of time I was heavily involved in the many activities that follow that type of lifestyle. I experienced a significant event when some of the drugs (LSD) that I had given to my girlfriend to sell for me, accidentally were ingested by a two-year-old baby. To stay out of jail I found myself working as an informant for the New York State Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigations.
Shortly thereafter I was involved in a number of burglaries and was being taught how to crack a safe. The night my friend and I were scheduled to get together, my girlfriend was released from jail and we, (girlfriend & I), spent the entire night together partying. The following morning my contact with the NYSP, BCI came by the house and inquired as to my activities the night before. I soon learned that during a burglary of a Ski Resort, (Ski Wing, and a place that my friend and I had committed a theft a week or two earlier), in which a safe was stolen. Two employees who were grooming the slopes walked into the clubhouse, and walked in on the burglary. Both employees were murdered, execution style.
After purchasing some drugs from the house were my friend was staying, an arrest was made. It was soon discovered that I was the informant and my world turned inside out. I was told that a contract had been placed on me from out of Buffalo and I found myself sleeping with a shotgun and living with a 357 handgun. After a few brief encounters with some unusual circumstances I decided it was time to end my life. I was needless to say quite distraught and depressed. I went into my bedroom intent on taking my life. With the gun barrel on my forehead and my thumb on the trigger I was asking, “Who really cares about me?”
The next thing I remember I found myself involuntarily on my knees, and being told, “I love you and if you give me your life I will do something with it”. I did not know who it was or what it was (it was not audible but in fact mind to mind) but I did believe that he was greater than I was and I knew that what was said was genuine, authentic and sincere. After a short debate with myself I yielded to the voice (since I was going to take my life anyway) and then asked Him if it was OK to lie down and get some sleep. Though the voice did not respond I somehow knew I had His blessing and my testimony is I have never experience such a sweet and peaceful sleep before or since. When I woke up for what seemed like days of sleep I knew that there was something very different about me. Needless to say it would take more time that currently allotted to express or explain all that has happened during the last thirty-one years, which clearly shows the faithfulness of the One who spoke, which I have intimately learned was Jesus Christ the Son of God.
If there is an interest to know more of the details please find on the World Wide Web under
www.unshackled.org my testimony in the archive files of the year 2006, # A2921.
Relevant Scripture
2 Corinthians 5:17 (New International Version)
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"
