SID: How old were you?
ROBBY: I was nine years old. Nine years old.
SID: Let me tell you, you have some gutsy parents. Okay, go ahead. (laughs)
ROBBY: But they were, they were— you know this young man was just in you know terrible you know DT’s and withdrawals and terribly— and of course with heroin there’s sickness involved and he was just you know throwing up you know constantly and just shaking terribly and screaming out profanity just in pain and so I mean I saw some pretty bizarre behavior and after many days I had woken up in the early morning hours and he was just standing beside my bed and I kind of of you know jumped back in bed because you know the behavior that I’d seen from him was so bizarre. And he had his arm on the window sill. We had kind of a high window sill and he was looking out on the backyard. And I looked at him. His back was turned to me and I looked at him and I said you know I called out his name and I said you know I said are you okay? I said do I need to get my dad? And he turned and when he turned around to look at me just the whole front of his tee-shirt was just you know up at the top was just wet and it was tears. Tears were streaming down his face. And he turned and he looked at me and he said Robby, he said Jesus came in the room this morning. He said I woke up early this morning and I was feeling so sick and I just said you know God who’d want somebody like me and why would these people help me? He had been prostituting himself on the street for drugs. He had a dad who had beaten him nearly every day you know and why he ran away from home and he was just trying you know get enough money to eat and do drugs. And he said you know God who would want somebody like me? And Jesus just appeared at the end of the bed and opened His arms and He called out his name and He said I’ll take you. And he got up and he walked over and just Jesus embraced him and he said, he said, he said He just took it all away. It’s all gone. He said he sat, He hugged me and He kind of rocked me and he said it just all went away and He just began to speak all the things in my ear that I never heard my dad say. Things of hope. Things of love. Things of affirmation. And he said, and he said it’s all gone! He said the addiction’s gone. The shame of the things that I did is all gone. The hatred for my dad, all of it just left right in that moment and he dropped his head and he—
SID: Yeah, but wait. Heroin addiction was an instant withdrawal?
ROBBY: Instant.
SID: And did he have DT’s?
ROBBIE: Absolutely instant change.
SID: You know did he, did he have any suffering at all after it was gone?
ROBBY: After that no. No. It was instantly gone.
SID: Isn’t that physiologically impossible?
ROBBY: Absolutely. But not spiritually. You know God can break through. He’s made these bodies and He broke through you know just the natural barriers and transformed his physical being.
SID: What effect did this have on a nine year old kid that’s hearing profanity? That’s— I’ll tell you something.
ROBBY: Yeah.
