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I grew up in a great Christian home with wonderful parents and for the longest time I never wanted to tell my testimony because I felt it lacked drama. However, someone pointed out to me once that there is nothing boring about God revealing himself to a person and taking him or her out of death, into life. This mindset and the knowledge that God will use my testimony somehow are the things that I focus on when telling people about myself. There was no real dramatic conversion and there was no addiction that was miraculously alleviated. I grew up going to church every Sunday and I have never known a time when the knowledge of God and a Savior was not part of my life. I was baptized when I was young but never really considered the commitment to Christ as something real. It was not until the summer after my 7th grade year that God revealed to me that I was not being real with Him and with myself about where I was in my faith. I had always professed a belief in Christ, but I had no real desire for Him or an intimate relationship with Him. It was at this time that He revealed to me how much I needed him. Even after this eye-opening occurrence it has not been all sunshine and daisies. I still struggle deeply with a lot of things and I am now more entrenched in the spiritual battle than ever before, but by His grace, God has freed me and washed me of my sin. I rely completely on the promise of God that says that He will continue to do a work in me until the day of His coming and that He will continue to purify me as a member of His bride, the Church.
I began to play the guitar more seriously in early 2003 when the youth minister/worship leader left. I had never seriously played the guitar, much less in front of people. I knew very basic guitar and, although I was an ace in the 8 and under children’s choir, I had never really sung in front of people. God worked a huge miracle in all of this because I literally went to bed one night unable to sing and play guitar at the same time and the next day I could do it. It could not have been anything that I did because I didn’t do anything. Since that time, God has given me a gift and passion to praise him through music and I have been leading worship and writing songs for the last 4 years.
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