I am suppose to write a bio of myself for our writer/speaker group, She Disciples.

Should I write about my early 20’s having part ownership and driving a race car and that crazy lifestyle which sadly displeased my Dad? About getting hit on a motorcycle by a drunk driver and breaking both my legs and my back and my mangled leg that took four surgeries  and two years before walking on my own again?Then needing more surgery 35 years later? How about experiencing both of my parents dying at young ages and watching my 2 year old niece getting killed in a car accident? Should I add that I have had three failed marriages, the first one ending in physical and mental abuse and two others in adultery? Oh yeah, and what about my history of abortion and losing a couple of babies and then having to have an emergency hysterectomy and never being able to have any children at all and the guilt that I have endured over that?? And a couple of other things that I will keep private because I don’t even want to talk about them?

Oh, and what about getting immediately addicted to crack cocaine when my Dad died because I didn’t think I could take another breath of life without him whom I became so attached to after Mom’s death. I had no idea the man I was dating was a drug dealer and “had something that would make me feel better.” The next two years of my life I spent living with the devil on my tail as I pursued this life of drugs, losing a good job and my integrity and most of all pushing my Christian upbringing way down in the pit of my soul.

Then discovering at the brink of an overdose of drugs and alcohol that, after reaching up to God from the pit of my soul and begging Him to take my life, He had a plan for me to live and sent me help that got me into a rehab program. Even then it was several years later before I realized that I never had a true relationship with Jesus and asked Him for the first time to come into my life as my Lord and Savior and discovered a new life! I discovered that there is no high like the Most High and that His plan was for me to share my story with many people. That as long as I followed the path He has intended for me, He will give me opportunities to be used by Him.

How He gave me the verse, Joel 2:25 when I was so overcome with guilt from living such a life of sin away from Him when I could have been used by Him all those lost years.

“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten…”

How in my life now I am daily overwhelmed with the power of Jesus working in my life and using me in ways I never imagined! How He has given me a passion for His faithful and truthful Word that guides me in my every day life. I now have constant communication with my Heavenly Father because of what His Son did for me on the cross.

That now when I raise my hands up to God it is not in desperation but in grateful praise that He loves me so deep that He will never leave me or forsake me, that no matter what I go through in this life He will be with me giving me strength to get through it. Whew! Praise the Lord!!!!!

Oh wait, a bio must be just a few short sentences describing myself. How about..

I once was lost but now I’m found. Pretty much sums it up for me!!

Thank you, Jesus!!