Frank Morley:  

In 1970, the year I graduated, I was still working with the band Radar, which at the time consisted of, among others, Sandy Springs alumni Tony Garstin, Jimmy Cobb, and Chris Cornish. I was on a kind of quest, the depth of which I did not understand. I was eighteen and liked it. I was not interested in growing up. But life is change, so I faced difficult conflicts. I had become too dependent on my friends, all of whom were changing--growing up, despite themselves. Meanwhile, I continued to isolate myself, to hide and avoid, and my insistence on maintaining my abuse of illicit substances made the struggle I had always had with negative emotions, especially depression, that much worse. I felt and was lost inside, and becoming increasingly hopeless, helpless and miserable. And, I knew that I did not have God on my side, because I knew I had not done what is required for that. Though He was calling, yet I resisted Him. He wanted me enough to cause my circumstances to become desperate enough for me to want Him; rather, I already wanted Him, but I didn't want to have to choose. He caused me to be away for a while, in an environment which He was able to use to draw me to Him. I can see now that He had created that environment for me for that purpose. Many of the people I met there apparently served only to direct my path. On a daily basis, God became more and more real, and His will more and more obvious. Gradually, I allowed myself to consider accepting Him. At one lonely point of desperation, I knelt and prayed and told God that if He would get me out of the situation I was in I would do whatever He said. After my return home, He continued to direct me until something which He had shown me month...Expand for more