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From: ACE
Date: 26 Oct 2009
Time: 21:10:32 -0700
Remote Name: 76.127.49.184
I grew up in church and I was saved at the age of five. Any time the doors were open I was there. Until about the age of seventeen. Although I was only seventeen I had been through many things a seventeen year old should not have to experience. So instead of giving it all to God, I got mad. I was mad at the world, my family, friends, and most of all God. How could he let all these things happen. I Spent a couple of years getting into things that I should not have. And then my Papaw wanted to go back to the Singing Echoes annual sinnging. We used to go every year until my Mamaw's health started to fail. She passed away the November before. So I went with him just like any other time. Except this time I was not there because I wanted to be there, but because Papaw wanted me to come. I re-met Matthew, who is now my husband. But I was not in a place at the time for a relationship. Over the next few months I went through a lot of stuff, and one night standing on the side of the road watching my friend getting taken to jail I decided that it was time for me to get out of this mess I was in and quit wallowing in self pitty. That there were people worse off than I was. So that night I decided to quit my ways and get back in church and be the person I was raised to be. I was no longer mad at my family, friends, world, and most improtantly God. I knew that everything that had happened over those 19 years was to make me who I was - a stronger person. I am now married to a wonderful man, who makes me want to be a better person, I have a fabulous family who i love all dearly, and I Have a God who sees us through tough times. I am PROUD to say that I have a used to be story.