“Sometimes I am two people,” said Johnny Cash. “Johnny is the nice one and Cash causes all my trouble. They fight.”
By his own estimation, the iconic singer and entertainer Johnny Cash had wrecked virtually every car he ever owned, totaled two Jeeps and a camper, and overturned two tractors and a bulldozer.
He sank two boats in separate incidents, and he once leaped from a truck just before it went over a 600-foot cliff.
After long, frenzied drug binges, when Johnny Cash finally crashed and just before he drifted off into unconsciousness, he sometimes heard a quiet voice say, “I am your God. I am still here. And I am still waiting. I still love you.”
Cash, born in rural Arkansas, came from an intact albeit dysfunctional home, with a distant, often harsh father. But his mother loved him deeply and instilled in him a faith in Jesus Christ that the young boy embraced. Cash was raised in the church and knew right from wrong. “READ MORE…”
