Hello my name is Keith DuBose I am from a small town Ridgeland, SC and for those who have never heard of it, it's next to Hilton Head Island.  I had a normal childhood, great parents that took us to church and made sure we had everything we needed, they worked very hard to put me and my sister through a private school.  At age 13 I accepted Jesus Christ as my lord and savior but I surely did not turn my life over to him.  I ran with the wrong crowd, got into trouble, I disrespected my parents especially my father.  I just was not going to be told what to do, I was going to run my life the way I saw fit.  With that in mind I was battling depression and on my way to being an alcoholic in my late teen's.  I know now that the reason for all of my anger, depression and drinking then was me running from God.  I stayed in so much trouble I thought I will join the army that will get me out of here and away from my controling parents.  Thats what I did I ended up being stationed in Honolulu Hawaii paradise.  It was anything but paradise, my drinking got out of control, I got a girl pregnant here I am 10,000 miles away from home I still have the same problems and now at age 19 I am going to be a father.  I did what I thought would be right marry her and take care of my son and everything would be ok, wrong again things just got worse at this point I thought God was out to get me and certainly not here to help me.  I was divorced by my mid 20's and had custody of my son, I had no where to go so I went back home and for a little while I was being the great single dad but I ended up slipping back to my old ways of partying and leaving my son with my parents and grand parents.  To make things worse I got married again, but little did I know at the time that my new wife would end up being my greatest blessing.  I didn't stop drinking and partying, it got worse to the point that I could not go without drinking everyday and I was on my way to another divorce.  I put my wife, son and step son through way more than they should have had to go through and they watched as I reached rock bottom, oh and while this was going on my wife gave birth to our daughter so now it was my wife, son, step son and now a daughter's life I was going to ruin with my out of control life.  You know that all this time I felt like I was searching for something, searching for anything that would make me happy.  I had a wonderful family but I felt all alone, like the world was out to get me, almost as if it really didn't matter if I was here or not.  My wife in the begining drank and partied with me but she saw what it was doing to me and stopped and got into church and got our children into church.  She tried to get me to go but I had better things to do like get drunk, drink my problems away. the problem with drinking them away is they are always there the next morning staring you in the face allong wit the stupid things that you may have done the night before.  You know through all of this my wife stayed strong always trying to get me help and in my own mind I knew I needed help but was to confused to get it.  My entire life I felt as though something had always been missing in my life, that something had always been pulling at my hearts strings.  I loved music it was almost therapy for me, I had been playing the drums since I was 11yrs old and would do anything to play music.  Well my wife used that to her advantage she got me to come and play the drums at church but I would not stay to hear what the preacher had to say I had sunday sports to watch and beer to drink so I would slip out the back door after the praise and worship was over.  One Sunday I got to the back door and had this overwhelming need to go back into the church and stay for the service, it felt like everything the preacher had to say was directed right at me I felt like I was under a spot light and couldn't get out.  What he said that day though changed my life, he talked about how Jesus washes away all sin, all wrong doing, that if we allow him to take control of our lives that he would bless us and use us for his glory. All at once I realized that all these years of searching for something to make me happy was really Jesus wanting to comfort me and love me.  Now I am telling you that just like that BANG everything was ok because it wasn't it took family counseling and almost a year after I dedicated my life to Christ to quit drinking and mend my relationship with my wife and kids.  It took allot of hard work on my part to get sober and now to trust that Christ new what was best for my life, seeing as how while I was in charge of it all I did was make a mess of it! The bible teaches us if we truly turn from our sin and believe in Jesus Christ as our lord and savior that all of our sin is washed away that God puts it as far as the east is from the west, as if we are as white as snow and my wife and children forgave me.  I could not forgive myself for all the things I had done over the years to all the people I had hurt, I felt like I did not deserve to be forgiven and I struggled with that until a person whom I had done wrong to told me that they saw a change in me, I asked them to please forgive me for the things I had done to them and they did.  I realized that not everyperson that I have wronged will forgive me but that some will and that if it is good enough for God to forgive, and my family to forgive then it was ok for me to forgive myself. You see, once I turned my life over to Jesus picked me up out of the mud, dusted me off and put me back on my feet, but this time I knew that I didn't have to stand alone that he is always with me to comfort me, love me and guide me.  I learned to play guitar and just a few short years later Christ brought Glen, Ryan, Alex and Richard into my life which is now known as Cistern.  God has a purpose and a plan for each of ourlives, I wasted many years and went through allot of pain that I may not have had to go through if I had just let Jesus into my life sooner.  If you have read all of this, I want you to understand that life is like a vapor it's here today and gone tomorrow, don't let our today become yesterday because we are not garanteed tomorrow.  Life is about choices, I am thankful that God has allowed me to live long enough to accept Jesus as my lord and savior.  The bible says the Jesus christ is the way the truth and the life that no man comes to the father (God) except through me.  Please choose to let christ be apart of your life because the alternative is an eternity in hell! God Bless you for reading all of this, if you have questions about Jesus Christ and how he can help you email me at keith@cisternband.com I would love to talk with you!