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What God’s Awesome Grace Can Do: Here’s My Testimony
My grace story is my testimony. It’s a testimony of what Jesus can do, how He can take someone’s mess and turn it into a beautiful message. It’s a message of radical love and radical empathy. My life has been made up of a million little testimonies. I just didn’t acknowledge God in them throughout my whole life. Instead, I chalked them up to a million little coincidences and brushed them off. But the closer I get to Him, the more He opens my eyes to His presence. This was a rescue I didn’t deserve. I loved Jesus at a young…
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To the adventurer: what my anxiety taught me about faith
I’ve always loved adventure. Where others see obstacles, I see opportunity– sometimes, to a fault. See: local 18-year-old girl comes near-death during a long-boarding accident. But suffering from anxiety made me feel stuck. Nothing helped. That is, until I found freedom in faith. Anyway, as a young child, I was the one who would convince the other kids to take the mysterious trail home, or to walk the “long way back” for sight-seeing or in hopes of finding a wounded animal to nurse back to health. I created Survivor games in my backyard where my sister and I would play…
