- On October 3rd of 1995,

he was headed home to watchme cheer for a homecoming game

and he never made it home.

I was very mad at God

that He would take someonethat was so good to me

out of my life, who I needed.

- [Narrator] Jocelyn James had been living

with her uncle Wade when acar accident took his life.

He had given her safeshelter from her father,

an abusive alcoholic.

- When he would whip me withthe belt, I felt just helpless.

And I mean, like it hurt so bad

that like, I just wantedhim, I wanted him dead.

- [Narrator] More thangiving Jocelyn an escape,

her uncle showed her somethingher father never could.

- I longed for someone's love

because I would say families out

with their mom and their dad.

And I just didn't have that.

He was a godly man and he just loved me.

- [Narrator] With heruncle and his love gone,

Jocelyn fell into a deep depression.

At 16, the once popularcheerleader and A plus student

quit high school and startedpartying and drinking.

- I didn't care about life.

I didn't care about anyone.

I was just mad.

I was hurt.

And I knew when I drank thatI didn't feel any of that.

- [Narrator] By the time Jocelynwas in her early twenties,

she was married,

working at a manufacturingplant and using meth.

The only times she stopped

were the three times she got pregnant,

all which ended in miscarriages.

- It hurt my heart more than it hurt me.

I didn't know if there wassomething wrong with me.

If there was something wrong with him.

Or if it was just God.

- [Narrator] Two years later,there was a bright spot.

Jocelyn would give birth to a daughter.

And three years later to a son.

By this time, she and her husband divorced

and she had gone back to using meth.

Then, during a routine checkup,

doctors discovered she had ovarian cancer.

While it took six surgeriesto remove the cancer,

it also put her back onthe path to addiction.

This time to prescription painkillers.

- It completely changed my life.

It literally numbed everything in me.

- [Narrator] When theprescription stopped,

she started getting opiatesfrom people at work.

Over the next five years,

she would fall deep into addiction

going from pills toshooting up 16 times a day.

- Opiates like takes fullcontrol of your whole body.

Like your mind, your body, your soul.

- [Narrator] Over the years,

Jocelyn would lose everythingexcept her children.

She was arrested numerous times

as she resorted toselling drugs and stealing

to support her habit.

By 2012, the ravages ofaddiction had taken over

as she now weighed a mere 95 pounds.

Still, she was in denial.

- I'd lost all self respect,respect for anyone else.

I went from being a functioning addict

to someone who couldn't even wake up

if they didn't have theirfix the next morning.

- [Narrator] In November ofthat year with nowhere to turn,

she and her children movedin with her ex-husband.

She was watching the news one night

when her picture came up asFranklin County's most wanted.

- I was tired.

I was over it.

I was sick of livin' that life.

- [Narrator] The nextday, she turned herself in

and was eventually foundguilty of a number of crimes,

including forgery and drug dealing.

She would serve six months ofa possible 10 year sentence.

And the only way to stay out of prison

was if she completed a longterm rehab plan

at Lovelady Center.

After one month there,

her case worker asked herwhat she could do there

that would please God.

- And that was the moment,

I just kind of scooted outof the chair onto my knees.

And I was like, I gotto do things His way.

I surrender all.

I don't want to live this life anymore.

I don't want this heart.

I don't want these eyes.

I want to be transformed.

And I was.

I asked Him to forgive me forall the wrong that I had done,

everybody that I had stole from,

to please just forgive me.

I felt like I was lookingat, at a new life,

like I was looking at a newborn baby

who's got a chance at life.

That day was my new chance at life.

- [Narrator] Afterward, Jocelyn says

through two months of prayer,

God healed her heart and her mind

and totally deliveredher from her addictions.

- I've never relapsed.

I've never used a drug.

And that is nothing but God.

And He did it for me and,

and He can do it for anyone.

- [Narrator] In time,Jocelyn was also able

to forgive her father.

- Forgiving my father felt good

because there was no more anger there.

And that's what, that'swhat God does for us.

He forgives us daily.

- [Narrator] Today,Jocelyn is newly married

with a blended family.

She and her husband, Greg, help others

who were just like herfind true freedom in Jesus

through their ministrycalled the Place of Grace.

Jocelyn knows that God cantake any mistakes of your past

and make you brand new.

- When you turn your life over to the Lord

and you totally surrender,He does fill that void.

No one can love you like Jesus loves you.

God's the only way.

He is the way, the truth, and the light.

He's the only way.