Walker and Rhonda Handley are both graduates of the Isaiah House Addiction Recovery Program.

They're also father and daughter.

They believe the Isaiah House gave them the ability to beat addiction when other centers could not.

So an addiction.

I didn't have friends.

I didn't have family because I was the person no one wanted to be around.

I was holding in my resentments and had abandonment issues.

I tried to fill it with drugs and alcohol.

I didn't go to church, so I got prescribed some pain pills from the doctor.

And because I got in a fight and it was on from there, you know, I go, is taking pain pills.

Then whenever I couldn't get those prescribed anymore, I went to heroin.

So I've been used since I was 16.

I'm 36 now.

But when I first got to the Isaiah house, I had to surrender.

I had to give it all over to God, had to give my life to God and give my family over to God and would pray for them and he gave my dad back to me.

You know, like for him to be here in this program with me, it's undescribable.

Throughout high school, I keep drinking and stuff and just partying.

And it led to one thing after another, like marijuana and pills and crack cocaine and stuff just for about the last 40 years, I've been doing something until come to as house.

I didn't think I could change, be honest, which I didn't think there was no change coming.

And it just something.

Let me go outside your house.

And that's where it started.

I had been through treatment before, like at the Hope Center.

What was missing was a spiritual part and I know that's what I need now.

They're just loving and caring here.

I know that there's not another rehab facility or treatment facility here that offers the love they do.

And that's why I wanted to work for them.

I knew this is where God wanted me, and that's where I wanted to be.

I get up every day and I'm happy to come to work.

I get to meet awesome people every single day.

There again is no judgment there.

Just like I am.

You know, I was.

I am.

I'm them.

It's amazing to see the light come back on in their eyes.

Why God came here.

I was beaten down, broken.

And this place just it.

It helps you rebuild with God from the inside out and heal.

It gives you the opportunity to heal.

I don't have the desire to get high no more or drink.

I just won't get close to God and keep doing what I'm doing and walk a little bit of time I've been here.

It gives me purpose.

I mean, I feel like I have a purpose now.

I have goals I set for myself.

I mean, I just feels like I'm actually living.

That's what I feel like.

My purpose is to help people.

That was like me that didn't have no hope to come from the same family situation and didn't have a chance that society so, well, you're just gonna die in prison or you're going to be wrecked all your life or whatnot.

That's not true.

You know, miracles happen and it starts here, starts with yourself, for you.

I can't express the joy that I have in life with God working through both of us.

It's like my heart is full, you know?

Fairytales do come true if you sit long enough and let God work.