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30 | WheelsOfGrace.com | #63 Chain smoking, tattoo covered, sexually promiscuous, suicidally depressed, lifelong atheist transformed by Jesus. By Billy Hallowell - Faithwire Adrienne Johnson was once a fierce atheist who found herself lost, struggling, and "suicidally depressed" un l she hit rock bo om, discovered Jesus, and saw her life transform before her very eyes. "I was a lifelong atheist," Johnson, the chief-of- staff at PragerU, a nonprofit dedicated to conserva ve ideals, told Faithwire. "A chain-smoking, ta oo-covered, sexually promiscuous, suicidally depressed atheist [who] was transformed by Jesus." The wife and mother of two recounted her journey from non-belief to Chris anity, no ng poli cs was her religion before she found Jesus. Johnson surprisingly found herself a racted to right-of-center poli cs in college, despite the ta oos, tongue ring, and lifestyle she embraced at the me. "All of the values of libertarianism and conserva sm, for the most part, really spoke to me," she said. However, Johnson remained antagonis c toward faith, despite its prevalence on her side of the poli cal aisle. "I was very hos le toward it [and] thought that anybody who had any kind of religion or spirituality at all was just not very bright, not very intelligent," she said. "I was all about science and ra onality and common sense." Johnson said her life was reflec ve of her disinterest in anything spiritual, no ng she had "no morals" and "no boundaries" and was desperately trying to fill a void in her heart. "I had this hole in my heart that I was trying to fill because I didn't have God," she said. "But I was trying to fill it with all of these things that didn't work." In the end, Johnson felt empty and unhappy. When she got married, she believed it would help fix these issues, but it didn't fulfill her like everything else she tried. Then, she made a life-altering mistake. "I was unfaithful," she said. "I basically completely blew up my life and destroyed my marriage." When Johnson finally hit rock bo om, she found herself looking at every possible solu on to her internal woes. She dove into New Age prac ces and other op ons and yet s ll was unfulfilled — un l a friend invited her to a play. "When a friend invited me to see a play of The Screwtape Le ers by C.S. Lewis … it completely blew me away," she said. "I was hit so profoundly that I had to at least consider Chris anity as an op on, which as a former atheist is just the most ridiculous, uncomfortable thing to consider ever." As me progressed, Lewis' words resonated, and Johnson found herself slowly understanding the faith she had so fervently rejected. "The more I learned about it … it was just truth resona ng within me," she said. Johnson went on to remarry, have two children, and now lives her life for Christ. CUSTOM PATCHES FOR YOUR CUSTOM PATCHES FOR YOUR M/M, MC OR RIDING GROUP M/M, MC OR RIDING GROUP CUSTOM PATCHES FOR YOUR M/M, MC OR RIDING GROUP CALL OR EMAIL FOR YOUR SAMPLE TODAY! (317) 627-0117 tshizas@aol.com USE CODE: WOG2019 520 Crane St., Suite D, Lake Elsinore, CA 520 Crane St., Suite D, Lake Elsinore, CA Harley's Custom Cycle Works 520 Crane St., Suite D, Lake Elsinore, CA