Message to Vets Suffering from PTSD: “God Has a Plan for Your Life” – (CBN News) America’s military men and women keep us safe and protect our freedom. Yet the horrors of combat have taken their toll on many of our nation’s heroes in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder. But two vets, who were on the path to self-destruction, say they were rescued from the grips of PTSD by Jesus Christ. Today, they are spreading that message of hope and healing on their bicycles. U.S. Marine veteran Michael Priddy and U.S. Army veteran David Allison are riding their bicycles across the country to promote a Christian ministry that helps veterans suffering from PTSD. It’s called the Mighty Oaks Warrior Program. The pair of vets began their journey April 28 from Squaw Valley, California, and plan to travel 2,700 miles to their final destination of Quantico, Virginia, in mid-June. Sometimes those stretches can be grueling, such as passes in the Rocky Mountains. “We have Scripture reading every morning, and all come together and pray. It wasn’t very easy. There were a bunch of times where I wanted to just fall over but God kept whispering to me that ‘You can do it,’” Priddy said. He said when he finished serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, PTSD had him in a chokehold. He lost his wife and family as a result. He admitted PTSD “made him feel like a monster.” But His life completely turned around after he attended a six-day retreat program at Mighty Oaks, a place where he says “suicide gets taken off the table,” once attendees recognize their lives have a higher purpose ordered by God through Christ. “It is just that instance when you make that decision and that instance that you get it and finally submit and fall to the altar and say, ‘Okay God, do with me what you will,’’’ he said. “That is the thing that starts the healing process.”
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