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Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:40:16 PM
Yet for the life of him, Lepsis could not block out God.
For many, the revelation Lepsis played high through the first six games of the Broncos' 2007 season was jolting. I'm not so naive to think Travis Henry is the only Bronco who ever tried drugs. But Lepsis didn't seem like the type. He not only was nice, he was unfailingly polite. He didn't talk much but he laughed easily.
"I know a lot of people will look at this and say, 'Here we go again, another professional athlete who got mixed up on drugs, was in the gutter somewhere, and decided to become religious,' " Lepsis said Friday from Dallas, where he is studying at a theological seminary. "My story couldn't be any further from that. I didn't grow up in the church. I wasn't at rock bottom. I'm not stupid. I didn't seek God, God was seeking me. This happened to me and it can happen to you if you accept the free gift that God has given us."
Drugs and God may be entwined in this story, but people should know the sensational had far less impact on Lepsis' on-field performance than the spiritual.
(What a powerful true story. This shows me no one is too high in life that they don't need to be saved or too low in life that they can't be saved. Lepsis, now studying theology in a seminary at Dallas. He also is anxious to tell his story of redemption. Here's a couple of other news stories where he does just that: the Seattle Times, the Colorado Springs Gazette, and this particularly detailed story in Winston-Salem's JournalNow. You can also read more of the above story right here.)
