Finding My Faith Again

I have had the most wonderfully awesome experience ever! I discovered that, although we get lost and sometimes forget about God, God is never lost. He's always right where we left him. What brought about this experience? I'll have to admit, I wasn't willing to admit that I'd left God behind years ago... But there it was again, staring me right in the face. I went to a Christian Women's Conference in my hometown, and what an awesome, uplifting and faith-building experience!

The speakers were mostly women, and all of them had such powerful stories to share! I truly felt connected, for once, to others like me, who had lost their way and then found their way back. I took away at least one thing from each speaker, and in the process, began finding again, what I thought had been lost so many years ago. My faith in God has been found and restored. I have finally become at peace with myself and with my life, and am now quite certain that God has a plan for my life!

I was raised in the Church, the Southern Baptist Church, to be exact. And, for many years as a child, was completely certain that there WAS a God and that Jesus had died on the cross so that we, as sinners, could be saved. I was baptized at the age of 11, and I tried really hard to walk in faith and stay close to God. However, due to things I wasn't equipped to handle emotionally, and many things that caused me to question my faith and God, I ended up walking away from God. But I thought He'd walked away from me! What a bitter, lonely soul I became!

I tried for many years to try to do it all on my own. Two failed marriages and many heartaches later, I have become ready to admit I couldn't do it on my own, because I didn't know how. I needed guidance. I have had no idea, all this time, how to go about finding that guidance and unconditional love I needed so desperately, and no idea how to find it in the right place. All of that changed whenever I went to the Women Of Faith: Amazing Freedom women's conference!