Standing at the Top of the Hill (ePub)

Calvin W. Allison was born in Ada, Oklahoma. His family moved from Ada to the community of Conway when he was four years old. He grew up in the country with his dad, mom, and two sisters. He attended school at Homer and Byng.



During his seventh- to tenth-grade years, there were events that occurred that resulted in him going into a severe state of depression. He soon began to travel down a reckless road of uncertainty. He went through many dark years and experienced a lot of heartache. It was during those dark years of his life that he started writing. At the age of sixteen, he wrote his first poem entitled "A Broken Heart." He wrote it while sitting in ISS (in school suspension ). The poem was a dark expression of how he felt inside. The dark theme continued for the most part of his early writings. He wrote very negatively, mainly about pain, hate, anger, and death. He had written ten books of poetry by the age of twenty-five. Over one thousand poems. He never got any of those books professionally published, though. He just put them together himself. However, he did have several individual poems professionally published.



He was steadily gaining more and more recognition for his writing. But the reckless life that he was living was getting the better of him, and he soon hit rock bottom. It was on the night of February 7, 1999, that he came to the end of himself. He knew that there was nothing else that he could do to make things better in his life. So he called out to God with a sincere heart and received an experience that led him to seek more of Him. He began to come under conviction about the reckless way that he had been living, and his life started to change. He started to read and study the Bible. He soon began to come under conviction about the books that he had written. He no longer had a desire to write negative anymore, and he knew that he would have to get rid of them. So one night he took all the books that he had written over

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