RECENT DRAWING

RECENT DRAWING
Real Men

2007-09-25

Introduction

I have ten minutes to say everything about me, and my life right now.
Great.
Well I guess a good place to start, would be when I was born. It was almost seventeen years ago, and I already had 3 bigger sisters’ eyes staring at me along with my amazing parents.
I love my family…they are the only part of my life where I can feel safe. I’m still waiting for the day when I find a man just as worthy.
I was always the outgoing kid who wore bright colours (actually didn’t even care what she wore), was always playing games with boys, and was asked to hang out every Sunday after church. My life used to actually seem like a life. Around 7 years ago, I started really thinking about what it meant to be a Christian. I started to think of God as my best friend. I got baptised, and was so happy. Right when I hit my high point, I started getting spiritually attacked. I was always angry, secretive with my family, and kept on getting bad thoughts that weren’t from me, and weren’t from God. At different points throughout a span of about 2 years, I was suicidal, a purging anorexic, a smoker, and everything that comes with. I don’t even remember who I was and why I made the decisions I did. Satan had gotten a firm grip on my life. My family started recognizing that, and helped me become aware of the spiritual realm of life. I was prayed over a lot, and that instantly started helping me tear down the black cloud around me. Since then, my life has been a rollercoaster. I have learned so much…through relationships, broken and mended, hard experiences, and sudden changes, like switching schools and having little friends. Summed up, I have learned that God is the best friend I’ll ever have. I still struggle with trust and hope, but in a way, I’ll always be learning. So I went from an outstanding kid, to a messed up teenager, to what I am now…what that is, I have no clue, and I’ll probably never find out who I really am.
My goal in life right now is simply this…to keep living with all my potential and all that I have.

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. -Henry Ford