My Story

Today as I spent some time in prayer, I felt moved to share my story about how God changed my life.  That sounds kind of funny in itself, in that God created my life, right?  But once we’re created, we all have a chance to choose to follow HIM or to go our own way!

I grew up in a very Catholic home, with very spiritual parents.  Like many people, that can either influence you to be the same or to rebel, and I guess I was somewhere in between for much of my adult years.  When I moved to Florida, I was very fortunate and blessed to achieve success in my career – pretty much a level of success I’d never achieved before.  Things were good – but I was riding on my belief that this success was really due to my efforts – or the joint efforts of my husband and myself…

Yesterday, a couple friends of mine were talking about life and why it is that some lessons are so costly to learn… well, we learned that our success was not of our own making – but a blessing – a gift from God and that our lives were filled with the material and no spiritual focus or gratitude for it whatsoever… 

You know that saying “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away…”  I’m not saying that we lost everything – what I’m saying is that business got very tough and we lost our confidence and our hope – and we were LOST for a good while!!!

In one of my most hopeless moments, a friend’s invitation to church started a sequence of events that totally transformed my life… and did so in a way that left no doubt whatsoever that God was teaching me, helping me, nurturing me – guiding me through the darkness to see the real light – the light of knowing that all things come from HIM, and that you can have a little or you can have alot – but you always have HIM!!!   And that transformed my life…

For a while I was SOOO excited by this awakening that it was all I could talk about – I just HAD to share the amazing ways God was SHOWING me He was working in my life!   I got the “Jesus Freak” title, the people who expressed their weariness of hearing me talk about it, or their resentment of it…  I also had many who came forward to encourage me – but I have to admit that after a particularly biting discussion with someone I love very much, I grew quiet on the subject and just did my thing in private!

Now, today, I’m stepping out in faith, because I have something to brag about – GOD loves me!  God is working in my life, He is guiding me and holding my hand daily as I walk through every challenge and every blessing!!!  He is putting people and opportunities in my life to help me to grow in faith and when I mess up – HE loves me anyway!!!

Yesterday at church we talked about envy and that when you WANT something, you somehow convince yourself that you NEED it…  For the past few weeks, I’ve been convincing myself that I needed to win a $5000 Target gift card for taking an online survey   

(I know, I’m an idiot)…

Now I know that I want and I NEED God to be the director and CEO of my life – and you know what’s so exciting?

HE IS!!!

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