At 17, I started attending church regularly and I felt God’s pull on my heart, with a lump in my throat and tears all down my face. I knew the only relief was to come to God and that is where my life started change. Everything started to get better, but I didn’t change my life. I slowly fell out of church and away from God. I spent many years in a rut living a life a knew was wrong.
After the birth of my first child a long time family friend had come to visit and she started coming regularly to study with me and it really made me want to learn the truth about the Bible, about Jesus. There is so many different denominations and people believe so many different things. It is hard for someone who has very little background in faith to see what is true. The more I studied the more I grew in faith.
We studied for a few years and when our daughter went to V.B.S at our little country church. We went to visit and it all seemed to click. That is where we were meant to be. It was the truest feeling of home I had ever felt. After that first visit we never missed a Sunday. (unless we.we’re sick) Everything started falling into place. We grew in our knowledge and in an amazing church family. They are so important to my testimoy, I don’t know what I would do without them.
I have never truly fell apart of anything. Always trying to fit in and make myself apart of something I was never intended to be apart of. I constantly felt alone, or like an outcast. But Whalen God came into it, it was so easy. I didn’t even have to try. They welcomed me with open arms!
God has truly opened my eyes to an entirely new way of life, and I couldn’t be more grateful. When you truly let God into your life your perspective and priorities change. When God steps in he pulls you out of the darkness and chaos of all things worldly and turns on the light to show you how loved and cared for you truly are.
