Maik is the youngest of five children and
finds learning difficult. He struggles with dyslexia, suffers from epileptic
seizures and attends a special needs school for pupils with learning
disabilities.
In eighth grade, he gets expelled, and his
hunger for life leads him on a downward spiral—he ends up in drug abuse, crime
and, finally, juvenile prison. He falls in love with a Blue Cross worker in
prison, but the theologian is out of his reach.
However, he meets another love that
completely changes his life. Seven years later, he meets that woman from the
Blue Cross again … Maik’s story begins like a drama and ends like a fairy tale,
but his story is true.
Today, Maik is happily married with four
children. With his wife, Irene, he works full-time for the Blue Cross and helps
people overcome substance abuse and leave their old lives behind.
His work focuses on substance abuse
counselling, pastoral care, therapy mediation, prison work, abuse and violence
prevention in schools, as well as self-assertion training.
LONGING for LIFE freed me from
addiction
because the life I LONGED FOR lies in
CHRIST.
Maik Löwen
Author: Maik Löwen
Title: From Crystal to Christ
My way from (longing)addiction
to unvonditional love
Publisher: ELPIDA publishing house,
Title of the original edition:
Vom Crystal zum Christen
1st Edition 2023 (ISBN: 978-3-9822341-4-4)
ISBN: 978-3-911180-11-5
Booklet, paperback: 172 pages; 19 x 12.5 cm;
with many photos and drawings,
printed in colour throughout
available as a print-on-demand book: