Hello y'all.....yes I am Southern and proud of it and so I say a lot of Y'alls. I was trying to figure out what to blog about today. I had several different ideas, well half ideas and my daughter said "why not blog about your life?" I said nah doesn't fit in with my theme of things you know something old into something new and then it hit me! Another Ah Ha moment! You see when I was around the age of 14-15 I began to drink and smoke pot. It progressed into other things and by the time I was 19 I was in full blown addiction. I tried to maintain and did for a few years and even had periods of semi abstinence. I always did it my way and my life was a complete utter mess. September 4th, 2004 I surrendered to God, completely surrendered. He took a person that was completely broken and made me into someone new....a new creation in his loving hands. Its like he placed my broken life on his potters wheel and made me into this lovely vessel. WOW! once again literally from trash to treasure. He is amazing like that! It has been ten years and even though they have not been easy, they have been so much more than I ever deserved. So you might ask what was my number one motivating factor? A beautiful little blond haired brown eyed girl. You see she deserved and needed a mama that would nurture her, take care of her, love her and teach her right from wrong. She needed someone to protect her, hold her when she was sick, someone to listen to her when she became a teenager and really needed good Godly advice. She needed someone to encourage her, to cheer her on, and someone to punish her when she made bad decisions. Not because I was mean or angry but because I knew how Satan loves to steal, kill and destroy....and I knew she needed me just as much as I needed her.
So this month I celebrate not only a new belly button birthday (September 14th, 51 years old) but a new celebration of life. God gave me many chances during my 25 plus years of addiction and when I was ready and cleaned me up, set me free and removed the chains that held me captive.
Thanks Savannah Grace for helping me out with today's blog! I love you more than you will ever know and cherish the time we spend together. You are an amazing young lady and one day you will have precious children that , if good Lords will, I'll love them and cherish time spent with them. And it will be because I gave in and gave up fighting a losing battle.
Maybe my story will have given someone else hope, if so then Praise God he gets all the credit!
God bless y'all!
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