What was life like before you met Jesus?
I believe my story started with Christ when I was 7 years old and lost my mom to cancer. Losing a parent at a young age left me yearning for something, a love that was taken from me. Then when I was 15 my life was almost taken from me when a car ran over my body when I was walking to school, the accident was so traumatizing to my body that it started to shut down. I give the doctors credit for their knowledge but ultimately it was Jesus’ hand that kept me alive that day. I then became a single mom when I was 21 - talk about being scared. I raised my daughter in the church at Stonebridge, it was important to me that she knew who Jesus is and while she may not have an earthly father ultimately Jesus fills that role. I think God was working on me then but even being in the church for many years I did not 100% meet Christ at that point.
How did you meet Jesus?
I think that the things I explained above were leading me to Christ, they all had a substantial impact on my life but I was never fully opening my heart to God. My now fiancé and I have known each other since high school but did not unite again until last year when I was struggling in my personal life and he was struggling with addiction, that is when I met Christ. When we started attending Veritas together the messages would have me crying and usually leaving in tears, I felt God working on me and calling out for me to come to him. Proverbs 3:5-6 says ”Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways submit to Him and He will make your paths straight.”
After being saved by Jesus, what is your life like now?
Since accepting Christ as my savior and living for him I now turn to him always instead of turning to myself or family and friends. I 100% put all my worry, anxiety, and stress in His hands and I KNOW he will protect me and my heart. I find complete joy in giving all of myself to Him. The first verse I ever memorized comes to mind, John 3:16 says “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”