I’m not sure that I would have said that God still did miracles in this day and age…except that He’s done one in my life!
Needless to say I’m now a firm believer in our Miracle-working God.
Let me start at the beginning of my story so you get an understanding of the incredible-ness (is that even a word?) of the miracle God did.
I guess you could say that I was a believer all my life. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t believe that God was real… and when I was around 15… I can remember waking up one morning with a heavy depression weighing on my shoulders…along with the thought that if I didn’t believe that God was real – I’d go out right then and there and kill myself. The depression was that dark and that pressing.
No sooner had that redeeming thought passed through my mind…the depression lifted and I never had that heaviness and darkness attack me again.
Sounds pretty impressive right? But what that little story doesn’t tell you is that I was the most excruciatingly shy girl you could ever meet. I was terrified of my own shadow. Honestly I think I cried my way through the first 12 years of my life. After that I hid behind my big sister and was her quiet shadow till the day I got married.
It’s truly a miracle that I even got married. My husband always says that I’m the one who turned him into a talker. If he didn’t talk then things would have been mighty quiet between us. But somehow or another he fell in love with me and soon took over the position of my protector from the world.
Believe it or not…I managed to hide from the world in general, and people in particular…till I was nearly in my sixties. Yup, I was that old before my life and personality did a complete 180!
Then one day God brought something into my life that started a health and healing process that literally turned my life around. The stronger and healthier I became–the more interested I became in knowing God more intimately…and as I started developing my relationship with God I noticed that my excruciating shyness started to fall away!
The day I suddenly realized that I was no longer terrified of people was a day of great celebration. My renewed health had given me the energy to desire and seek God more and the closer I got to Him the more I began to change!
I had always thought that I’d be stuck with my terror of people for the rest of my life…but God had other plans! If you would have told me a decade ago that I would be writing a blog for people to read and comment on…that I would be making videos where I talked to people… Honestly I would have laughed in your face and told you…well more like…think about telling you…that you were stark raving mad!!!
I would have thought about telling you to dream again…because that was NEVER going to happen! And yet here I am…doing the very things I thought I would never do!
Now if that isn’t a miracle I don’t know what is!
My purpose with this blog is to share all the things God has been showing me–because our God is so much greater than we think and He can do so much more than we ever dreamed of–and He has commissioned us, and given us so much more to do than we can ever imagine.
This blog is my attempt at sharing God’s “MORE” with you in the hopes that you will catch the same fire, or already have the same fire burning in you that God has put in me. The more we gather together the stronger our Light will be! There is power in the Body of Christ! Feel free to comment…to question…to post your thoughts and ideas. I’d love to hear from you… God loves us all and Jesus makes us all brothers and sisters IN Him.