My Story

I was born and raised in Raleigh, NC. I spent my childhood playing with my sister, doing arts and crafts, drawing canned cheese smiley faces on crackers, swimming at the pool, and dreaming of being a teacher, astronaut, and mom. I have since then realized that the canned cheese is disgusting, I am not cut out for outer space, and my sister and I can't spend every summer day playing outside together.

Growing up I thought my life was pretty close to perfect. My family was perfect. My home was perfect. My school was perfect. Or pretty close.

In high school I was like so many other teenage girls. I looked for love in places that never fulfilled me: boys, appearances, grades, etc. I was raised in the church, very involved in youth group, went on every mission trip, yet my heart was still blind to the truth of Jesus.

My senior year of high school the Lord broke down the barriers of shame, guilt, and rebellion that had built up around my heart. He washed me clean and made me new. I went from being a slave to sin to completely and totally free. I no longer sought fulfillment from guys. I no longer compared myself to others to determine my value. I no longer saw my plans and my ways as good. Jesus literally changed everything.

Since my senior year of high school my life has been far from easy. He never promises to make our lives void of pain, but He does promise to make the suffering worth it. In the midst of death He brings life. He resurrects our souls. My freshmen year of college was a year marked with loneliness, but my sophomore year was rich and full. My junior year was marked with suffering as my parents marriage fell apart, but my senior year brought healing and comfort in the Father.

The gospel of Jesus Christ eternally changed me. I was an enemy of God, ruled by the sin of my heart. But Jesus looked at me in the midst of my sin and offered me His perfect life, a perfect life I could never live, so that I may be in relationship with the Father. That is the beauty of the gospel: I deserved death and was given life. Real life.

"I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." 
John 10:10

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