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Lost and Found
The story of how i came to know God is the most powerful story of my life, and always will be. I wasn't raised in a christian home. I had no clue that there was a God until I was about 7 when I started going to church regularly with a friend. Up until I was about 13, I went through the motions of christianity but never understanding why I did it or what it meant. I had been to church camp before but none like the summer of my 8th grade year. I had been struggling with my family life and alcohol abuse that summer. My parents were fighting constantly to the point where my mom, brothers and myself moved out. My mom had turned to alcohol to deal with life. Honestly, so did I. When I went to camp I was really just searching for something bigger than me, anything that I could latch on to to give me hope for a better tomorrow. All week I listened to sermon after sermon feeling like that week was made just especially for me since my life related to everything the pastor was talking about. It was then that I realized that I LOVED God with everything in me. And He loves me back. I wanted to live for him and it was the friday of the next week that I got baptzied. Since then my life has been changed so much for the better. So many times in my life I feel like im alone, but then I remember im never alone....God is ALWAYS there for me. No matter how many times I mess up, stray off my path, wonder away from what is right or deny Him...He is always waiting with His arms wide open waiting for me to come back home. Of course my life is filled with struggle, but when I wake up in the morning I make the decision to have a good day and not to let anyone ruin it.
I was so lost, doing so many horrible things, disobeying God and disrespecting myself over and over. But, by the grace of God, I found him.
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