A little bit about me - I grew up attending church with my Mammy and was baptized by my uncle at age 12. I knew who the Lord was but didn’t know that I needed a relationship with Him. In my early teens, I remember struggling to decide who I was going to be. I really wanted to fit in with the Young Life kids at school and church, but never thought I was good enough or that I belonged. Instead, I chased an endless path of proving my worth to others through the clothes I wore, the songs I listened to, and the places where I spent most of my time - house parties with little to no supervision.

 

I tried to fill voids and unhappiness with everything but the Holy Spirit. I still attended church from time to time but there was no depth to that. It was more of a check on my to-do list and social time. There was still a battle within me of which crowd I was going to associate myself with. I was never comfortable with who I was and still continued to chase anything that would keep me happy in the moment. I immediately moved out of my parents’ house and into an apartment with my boyfriend at age 18. I remember telling my grandmother and her questioning if that was a good idea before we got married and I brushed that off because I had already made up my mind and didn’t want to hear that truth. Plus, I thought that was just the “old school” and “traditional” way of doing things, not that there would be any implications for disobeying the Lord so deliberately. I lived in chaos with him from 18-20 until we moved to Texas to start over and set boundaries for ourselves. 

 

Texas was the place that the Lord allowed me to get to so that I could hear him more clearly. Slone and I married at 20 and began following the Lord more and more. It wasn’t until then that I understood what it meant to walk with God. 18 years later and here I am saying yes to Him as I set out to share His promises with, hopefully, the world.