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Let's take a listen. I would say at this point in his life, Johnny's trying to live in two worlds. You know, his sister, Joanne, put it this way: Johnny was like two people. She said Johnny was one person and Cash was the other, and she said Cash caused all the trouble. And he was always struggling with different things throughout his life and reaping the consequences of it.
And I think Johnny had too much of the world to be happy in his relationship with God, and too much of a relationship with God to be happy in the world. He was in sort of this no man's land trying to live in two places at the same time, and it was causing a lot of internal and external problems. conflict and problems in this life. Hmm.
Well I guess Chris Dofferson pretty well summed it up in the song he wrote about me. He's a walk in contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction. And Patrick Carr, in a story about me, said. John Cash, the Indian, and the white man's camp. Maybe that's it, or maybe I'm...
The white men in the Indian's camp sent So Johnny got to a point where with the collapse of his marriage to his first wife Vivian, his addiction to drugs, his life spiralling out of control, He effectively decided to take his life.
So he made his way to a cave about 30 miles from Chattanooga called. Nick and Jack Cave. He had actually been there before as a young man looking for arrowheads and other things, but now He just thought he would keep walking as far in as he possibly could walk and never return again. And that's exactly what he did. If you had a picture of me at that time, you wouldn't believe it was me.
There's a cave near Chattanooga, Tennessee that I I like to explore. I'd been in there several times with my friends. Every time I'd get high, I'd get in my Jeep or truck and head for Chattanooga to those. the people that I thought would put up with me, you know. I I knew I'd just about worn out my welcome at everybody's house in Nashville.
but from keeping them up all night and this and that. But um Finally. Even my friends in Chattanooga. couldn't really put up with me much longer. And I saw it.
And uh I had term it back on June. Oh, my own mother. And she had uh Given up on being driven back to California where she lived and had a slight heart attack on the way. At that time that didn't bother me in the least because There's one thing about um Someone addicted to pills or alcohol, as you know, they're very selfish. You know, they don't care about anybody but themselves and the way they happen to feel right now.
And that's all I cared about, all I talked about, how I feel, what I want for me, you know. and uh disregarded my four daughters in California, my mother and June found out where I was. and came to my friend's house in Chattanooga looking for me. I found out she was coming, so I went to the cave 20 miles away. And I had been up two or three days and nights when she got there.
So I took my beer. I was drinking a. a case of beer a day. and take it up to 100 pills. Half amphetamines and half barbitu, which keep me going up and down, keep the cycle going.
But um I remember sitting in the mouth of that cave crying. and then taking that little two-cell flashlight and started walking into that cave. And I decided I'd walk as far as I could go and then lay down. And I guess I probably went a mile through one of the caverns. And my flashlight completely burned out and it was black.
Black dark, so dark you could feel it. And uh I laid down flat on my back. And Said my goodbye prayers. You know, I can't handle it myself. I'm giving up.
I'm going. I must have dozed off because I felt I felt a presence. to make me sit up. and look around. I couldn't see any light.
But This is awfully corny, but an old Indian trick is to wet your finger, stick it up, see which way the wind blows. I tried everything to see, and then I finally did that, and I felt cool air on one side of my finger, and I knew that. I kept following it, you know, crawling.
Sometimes I'd fall 20 or 30 feet into a pit, but I'd claw my way back up. And just as I was about to give up, I saw a little flick of light, way off in the distance. and it started crawling and clawing toward that entrance. and I finally made it there and I collapsed in the mouth of the cave. And when I awoke, June was there.
with my friends from Chattanooga. Jean was watching my face and she said, You're almost dead, aren't you? And I said... You have to now want to live.
So after this, another event happened in Lafayette, Georgia. On November 2nd, 1967, he was visiting a friend there and went up by himself at evening and got lost. And in an effort to get directions back to his friend's house, he knocked on the door of an elderly woman who lived alone and she called the police on him. Deputy Bob Jeff responded and padding cash down discovered prescription drugs in him, which were legal, and he took cash to jail. And he spent the night in his cell.
The next morning the sheriff Woke up Johnny and brought him into his office. Jones opens up a drawer, takes out the money and the pills he had taken off cash the night before, held them out and said, I'm going to give you your money and your dope back because you know better than most people that God gave you free will to do whatever you want with your life. Cash could throw the pills away or go ahead and take them and kill himself. And Sheriff Jones added. Whichever one you want to do, Mr.
Cash, will be alright with me. And as they were talking, Johnny realized that this man really cared about him. In fact, he told him they were huge Johnny Cash fans for over a decade and had every record he had made. The sheriff said, we love you. We've always loved you.
We've watched you on television. We've listened to you on the radio. We've got your album of hymns. You were probably the biggest fan you've ever had. Uh This made a deep impression on Johnny.
And a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Greg Hengler. And a special thanks to Greg Laurie. The story of Johnny Cash's redemption. and a turning point in his spiritual life. Here.
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