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Her grandmother threw her out. She lived in a little 16‘x9’ shack by the roadside. I was born in that little shack.
I didn’t know if God loved me. I was just so desperate. I started to try to find my identity in relationships with guys.
I was sixteen when I got pregnant, at the end of my ninth grade year. I met Cory who ended up being my daughter’s father. I quit hanging out with all my friends on the cheer leading team, and started hanging out with his frie...
"She went to the doctor for a sports physical. While there she was asked if she was sexually active. She said; “Yes.” She panicked and froze. Stuff hit the fan."
"He did cross the line, and I became a victim of what we now know as date rape. Thirty years ago that's really not what it was called. Since I did go into the bedroom with the guy, I blamed myself for many years..."
I was so hungry for affirmation as a woman that there was a lot of short term relationships.
When I was twelve the Lord woke me up one night and instructed me to pray for my future wife whom I had never met.
I had gotten so far down I was eating out of a garbage can. A pastor came to the campsite where I was living and said, ‘Would you like to go to church today?’ I said, “Well, not particularly, not really.” When he said, “We're...
"I started to understand that was the void I was trying to fill is that I didn’t have Him in my life."