This year I turned 17....SPIRITUALLY 🥰☺️. Seventeen years ago, on a Sunday, I made a public declaration to the world that I have made the Conscience Decision to follow Christ. I counted the cost. Was I nervous? Extremely.
The last seventeen years have not been easy, but they have been worth it. In 2009 I did not think my life would be what it is today. I was not the girl that parents thought was a good influence and rarely ever did I fit in, I was always out of place and I was just trying to survive.
I was surviving peer pressure, my own insecurities, sexual and emotional abuse. Those around me had no idea the things I battled daily, maybe because I did so well masking it with other behaviors. I was loud, tried to be funny, and always tried to be part of the popular crowd. Funny that today at 34 I’m the complete opposite. Anti-social homebody that only enjoys being with my husband, kids, and cats.
“I could’ve been just another statistic.” Is what I use to say, on teen pregnancy, high school drop out, welfare dependent, single parenthood, and on some days even suicide. I had no purpose, desire, or control in my life. I literally just got up every day hoping to make it to the end of the day.
Now a lot has happened between then and now, and those will be stories for another day. Today, I am just grateful to be able to start a blog in my virtual home, where I can encourage others through the rough and happy moments in life. And who knows, maybe one day it'll be read my thousands, or maybe it'll be read by no-one. For now they are words in cyber space hoping to reach someone some where in a near or distant future with love.
The only easy day was yesterday, but remember that what didn't kill you only made you stronger.
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