Jason Fowler swore to himself not to get into alcoholism nor any addiction as he watched these evil things destroy the lives of many of his family members. Nonetheless, he was not able to endure the temptations as he started drinking and getting in trouble with it by age 16.
"I tried to fill up my life with things of the world where what I really needed in my life was a spiritual connection to God," Fowler said in an interview with FOX411. It was mostly because of peer pressure, he added.
Fowler was into alcoholism and even drug addiction to "fit in." He was experiencing the heaven that he thought it was. Later in life, he began to have success in the music industry and formed a band called "Dirt Circus."
Fowler was excommunicated from the band he has founded because of his bad habits. "I got kicked out of a rock band for drinking and I don't know how you get kicked out of a rock bad for drinking but I just drank a little bit differently than everybody else," Fowler said in the same interview.
Friendship and relationships with family were seriously injured because of Fowler's addition. He also lost a record deal. At one point, he just lost control of his life. It was then that Fowler found himself homeless and helpless.
Fowler continued, "I remember it was raining and I was in downtown Atlanta and I said, 'God, whoever you are, please help me.'" It was then that he entered a Christian-based rehab facility and started to get better. There, he started getting into a relationship with God, and then found himself restoring the relationship with family while becoming the person he wanted to be.
"After I accepted Jesus in my life, everything started to get better and better. It's really like a country song backwards. I started getting my life, my family, my friends, and myself back. I started getting involved in church and even joined the praise team," Christian Today quoted Fowler as saying.
Fowler's example is inspiring teenagers who are into the same struggles as he had in the past. Fowler, wife, and family are in a pursuit to stir up change in many lives today.
Here is Fowler's latest music video for "Family," of which he gives a lot of value because of the family he has found after he went out from the dark tunnel of addiction.
