“I feel it is only fitting that I dedicate this website to the Memory of James for you see… It was James who provided the early appreciation of my work that helped keep me on track and get me to where I am today.
I first meet James at a Thursday night recovery service, The Right Road Home. He was one of those rare individuals that you instantly like. That night I offered him a job and thus began a friendship that I shall forever cherish.
The life of an alcoholic/addict is one consumed with devastation; agonizing pain and a personal shame that can only be understood by one that has traveled this horrifying road of self-destruction. James and I understood each other for we had both traveled this road and had come to a point in our lives where we desired change.
I miss you brother!”
Carl
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“I am so proud to have had James as my dad. For the short time he was here, he went through a rough time. He had let the evil overcome the good in his life. And I am so glad that God was the one to take him.
Everyday my mother says that I look so much like my dad, or act I act just like him. My grandparents (my dad’s parents) say that I'm their "Little James" because I am so much like him, but it feels so weird because I didn't really know my dad that well.
If there was one thing that my dad taught me in the short time I knew him is that life is so short and so delicate. That even with one choice... You could loose it all!
Even though I wish so much that he was still here to see how much I've grown and how much I have become like him, I know that he is with God now, and he has peace at last.
I MISS YOU DADDY!"
Jessica Dison
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“I do not make a habit of explaining the meaning behind my works or why I title them as I do… I leave the interpretation of my art to those who view it!
I will make an exception with “The Guardians.” The flowers in the work where part of the centerpiece of a Memorial Service we held for James at The Right Road Home. I took the flowers home after the service with a very special purpose in mind.
The bottles in the work contain the very substance of life, water. The bottles, and that which they contain, are “The Guardians” that will forever provide life to my Memory of James.”
Carl V Holgate
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“In the early 1970’s this kid James was created by God, and when it happened God said to Himself, “That is very good.” I was fortunate to have been chosen to be his earthly father.
This child of life named James laughed and cried… He learned and grew as he stumbled and picked himself up and went on and then, in his pre-teen years, he discovered drugs and alcohol were helpful in his times of trials. From that point in his life he struggled to find liberation from the malignant and entangling consequences of addition and from the anxiety/depression which stalked him.
He wanted very much to find a clean and sober life. He dreamed of a new life in which he would move closer and closer to wholeness and recovery. He dreamed of a life in which he would move beyond the brokenness and chaos into a fife of reconciliation and healing. Along the way he found glimpses of that clean and sober life and though God’s grace he found others who were on the journey to recovery and wholeness.
Of course I cannot presume to know exactly what God does, or how, or when… But I have a strong sense that James has been welcomed home by his Heavenly Father and is no longer subject to the pain and suffering he so long endured here on earth.”
Thanks be to God!
Jack Dison
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“James’s parting has left a void in my heart, but as his mother I will fill it with remembered joys of the times we had together. His time on earth was all too brief for me, but I am convinced the God who James trusted and to whom he prayed had a bigger plan in mind for him at this time. I no longer worry about James for God holds him in His hands!”
Zoe Linda Green
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"I will especially miss James’s ever present smile and his enthusiasm that he shared with all those around him. We were truly blessed to count James as a member of our fellowship and for the time the Lord gave us with him."
Pastor Bill Bennett
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