My Story
(A.N.) this is kind of a new gospel for the bible, its a testament to the greatest story of all; the story of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
I had always believed to some extent that there was some divine power that had control of my life and the lives of others. It was never really something I questioned or doubted. My sister was and still is a devout Christian; I was not. I had so many questions left unanswered. So many doubts in my mind that I never voiced. That is, until I went to a therapeutic boarding school in North Carolina for a year which coincided with my sister's freshman year in college. At this point my family was everywhere on the globe. My dad was in Belgium, which is in Europe, my mom was either in Belgium as well or in North Dakota visiting her boyfriend, my sister was at Mizzou and I was in the mountains of North Carolina.
My sister had started to send me letters and in one she was very intimate. My sister and I never really had the best relationship. I was lying, stealing and deceiving my family all the time. I was always taking her Ipod without her permission or even knowledge and then putting it back where I found it trying to hide the fact that I used it, but of course there were always the subtle hints that I had used it. I would be confronted by my sister and parents, attempt to deny the accusations, and then finally admit that yes I had taken it. This of course naturally led to my sister not being particularly kind, as I hadn't been to her either. In this letter she was careful about how she said it, but, she apologized for treating me the way she had.
What? What happened to my sister and how did you get my address?
This was my initial response. I never thought she would do something like this. She went on saying that living with the Holy Spirit has opened her eyes to her errors in the past and she wanted to start our relationship anew and rebuild with the time we have left. This alone opened my eyes and I actually prayed. I prayed to God our Heavenly Father to accept me into his life and help me through my future. I got myself a Bible and began to read with the guidance of my sister and her Holy Spirit.
I tried to continue but I lost contact with my sister and my relationship with God seemed to disappear. It hadn't. It seemed this way until almost a year later when I went to visit my sister at her college for 2 days. She had been living in the Christian Campus House for the majority of her time at Mizzou and I would stay there for the time I visited her. My relationship with God was renewed with a vigor that I had no idea possible. She bought me a Teen Life Application and Study Bible. I told myself that I would never again let myself get distanced from God. Since then I have planned to get baptized as soon as I can to fully accept the Holy Spirit and proclaim Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.
To Be Continued...
(A.N.) Please review and give constructive criticism. This is actually going to be a chapter from the book I am going to start writing; My Journey with God and Jesus Christ I want to get it published but first would like a large audience to give feedback and ideas so that I can make the book as good as it can be before I bring it to a publisher.
