I have an OWI and warrant for my arrest

ksheppard said:

I'm trying to live by the words of Psalm 37.

Kim

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ksheppard said:

Hi, I am new to Christian Forums. I found it through bible searches. I am in a very difficult situation. I recently had charges brought against me (first time in my life) for an OWI. My fiance has racked up two. We know we have a drinking problem, and have been going to Reformers Unanimous, a bible based addictions recovery program, through our church. I had just started a job on Sept. 9th. When I finished my first week, we slipped and had a few 2 drink. It was at home (we were living with his parents). We were excited because we were probably going to be able to get out of there in a matter of weeks. My fiances mother had been verbally abusing me since my OWI. Well that evening, she started yelling at me, and I had enough and told my fiance that we had to get out now, her voice is esculating. We started carrying things out to the car, and she pops up in the garage and starts attacking me, breaking the glasses on my face, and leaving bruises on my arm. My fiance started trying to get her off of me, and his son (who was a day away from turning 18) starts bashing him in the head and face). So he hit him back. The cops were called, they took everybody's statement, and arrested my fiance because his son was not yet 18. They said they would let the prosecuters sort out the rest. In the meantime, I went down and had pictures taken of my bruises, and had to stay at motels for a few nights with my 7 yr. old son. My church paid for one night, and then they helped me get set up in a wonderful womens shelter. They are awesome here. Well in the meantime I called my attorney for the first time over my OWI, and she says that the prosecuter has filed to revoke my bond, and filed battery charges, I have two warrants for my arrest. I'm waiting for her to speak with the prosecuter. Now I can't work, or go to my program, but I am still in it through podcasts and books the church has provided me with. Oh, did I mention I am social phobic, on meds, after coming from a 13 yr abusive marriage, so I have a problem touching people, let alone beating them up. I'm asking for prayer (and maybe a little advice) anything like that. I'm just afraid for my son, I'm trying to get things set up in case they come for me. I'm trying to live by the words of Psalm 37.

Kim

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Lovely Jar said:

Firstly K,

I know it can be very scary being put in handcuffs and taken to a place where other people have the right to deny you your freedom in some way.

Maybe you can see this as an act of mercy on God's part. And all those involved, including those who authorized the warrant and enforced it, as angels of the most high. Sent to guide your life to the righteous path and away from the wrong one that could have cost you everything. Or could have cause you as you drove impaired, to be the cause of that what cost someone else their life.

It may suck to be busted for drunken driving but I promise you it is worse to sober up and realize you are in a cell because you killed someone while drunk. And it is an emotional death sentence if you don't recall how all that happened and changed your life and your victims forever.

My high school prom date, junior prom, killed three people on his senior prom night. Drunk driving he had driven his date and another couple to the beach after prom. The road there had a sharp angle curve that everyone knew as dead man's curve because if you took it too sharply you were going airborne. And so he did. He hit a tree, cut the car in half behind the drivers seat and killed everyone who was with him. He survived to live with that.
Drunk off his tail he could barely remember a thing.

My advice, and it sounds empty when facing real life like this I'm sure, is offer your fear to the lord. Speak out loud and walk around your house talking if you want. As if you are speaking to someone who's in the other room and hard of hearing.
Or write everything down. There are no secrets from God because he is there to witness everything that happens in your life. The kingdom inside you is where God dwells. Not separate and apart from his creation but innate as source of all created.

Pray! Look at yourself and take a very deep sincere honest inventory as to how you arrived at this place where a warrant gets your attention for bad deeds that need to be addressed and punished under law. And ask yourself if this is who you are. If you can live with who you'll be if you continue in that behavior.
I'm not saying swear to be a tea teetotaler. I'm saying be responsible if you do choose to poison your body with the alcohol that provides no benefit whatsoever to your life or insides but instead consumes a piece of your liver, brain, heart, kidneys, with every sip.

God be with you.

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