My Testimony

Before I received eternal life I was a child who was fearfully insecure.

Early in life, I felt like I was always in the way of my parents and that they would be happier without me and my siblings. I also feared for my life as my step-dad experienced increasingly stressful personal situations. He searched for his significance through trying to manipulate and control me for his own needs threatening to kill me if I said anything regarding his abuse and actually trying to choke me twice.

In elementary school, I was invited to a front yard Vacation Bible School with a lady down the road from our house where we exercised our horse.

After having received Jesus Christ, I know how much He cares for each of His children and that I am never alone. I know that my sins are forgiven both now and in the future. I also know that He is transforming me to think more like He does- teaching, inspiring, and enabling me to act and to respond as He would as I lean on Him.

One evening at dusk, I was in a mall's parking lot. After getting out of my car, two men got out of their car in front of me. The car was very beat up looking and one of the men- the one who got out of the back seat starting asking me for directions- or something. I couldn't understand what he was saying exactly. I took a step toward them between my passenger side and the empty car parked there. I got a very uneasy feeling about the situation and stopped. I began to tell them I couldn't help them when, all of a sudden, the headlights on the car next to me turned on! The car's lights were shining directly on them! I was as shocked as they were! I looked down and there was a big "person" there in white behind the steering wheel! I couldn't see the person's face. I only remember the person had large shoulders and was only in white. I went into the store as fast as I could and looked for the security people. They drove around the mall but they couldn't find a car with the description I gave to them. (Those men had plenty of time to drive away.) Needless to say, I had immense peace and affirmation that my heavenly Father was watching over me!

I know without any doubt that I know Jesus Christ as my Savior because He placed me where I needed to be to learn about Him and accept His wonderful gift of salvation. I will be with Him immediately at my body's death surrounded in His love.