I’ve been blogging for over a year now, and I thought you might like to get to know me a little better. My life has been an adventure moving along like a nice little train ride the past several years, but is turning into quite a roller coaster experience. Some background will do you some good, so here we go.
I grew up in Georgia, just north of Atlanta. I have 4 siblings who were all in high school when I was born. My oldest niece, Christen was born when I was 4. So I grew up like the youngest, the oldest and even an only child. I attended a First Christian Church in elementary school and my parents divorced when I was in 3rd grade. My mom’s job moved us to Florida for a couple of years, North Carolina for a year and then we returned to my hometown when I was in middle school.
Those years were crazy and created a lot of insecurity for me. I came back to the crazy world of middle schoolers and apparently had no fashion sense because my best-friend Melissa immediately brought me to her room to show me exactly how to peg my pants! My sister and her husband began taking me to church with them and it was there in 7th grade that I invited Jesus into my heart and accepted Christ as my savior. For the next year I attended our youth group, which consisted of 5 others and me. I had no idea how to read my bible and the world of boys was an ever-present attention grabber. I “dated” a guy during that year and by the summer my heart had been broken. I was so seriously depressed I struggled with thoughts of taking my own life. I know that sounds ridiculous to most people that that could happen in a 7th graders mind, but HELLO it can and does. I wasn’t growing in my relationship with God b/c I didn’t know how and the enemy saw his window of opportunity. To this day it was the darkest time in my life. However, God had different plans. I signed up for youth camp, Super Wow, the summer after 7th grade. I mean a week at the beach without parents as a middle schooler with tons of other middle schoolers, no brainer! Louie Giglio was speaking the week we went and it was awesome! I remember getting my “Quiet Time Guide” and I still have it today. It was like someone handed me gold. Finally, a way to approach reading my bible that gave me a practical way to apply it in my life. It was there one morning on the beach that I prayed and ask God to change my heart and lift off this heavy sadness (depression) and He did! He super-naturally did. I could not even feel the way I did before even if I tried, it was done. Amazing! A little side note…The guy I had dated approached me a couple of years later to ask me if I wanted to date again and unfortunately for him I had to tell him that I could only think of him as a friend anymore and that God had changed my heart and it just wasn’t there anymore.
Where did things go from there? Stay tuned…part 2 coming up!
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