Growing up in a Christian home, being saved since the age 7, it's the typical story. However, when I entered middle school, what use to be a typical story, changed. I didn’t have many friends and the ones I did have weren’t really Christians. I began to stray from the Lord and became one of those “Christian on Sunday, but other days…forget it!” Yep, the hypocrite. And I stayed like that until my freshmen year. I noticed this guy named Adam. In my eyes, I saw him as a person after God and I wanted that and soon began wishing I never strayed.

Soon enough though, God reminded me that I could still turn back to him, so I did. It was hard to learn how to be totally dependent on God but something happened at the end of my frosh year that drew me closer to God than I had ever been before.

Once I recommitted my life to the Lord, one of my “circle of 4” friends (Lindsey) came to church with me and was radically changed. Our other 2 friends saw that but became uncomfortable. I being the “peacemaker,” got in the middle of it so I ended up losing them all. By the last week of my frosh year, I had no friends, and ended up going through the summer w/o any friends. But the whole time, God stuck with me, thru it all. Now I know to trust God 100%.

Oh, and in case ur wondering, after that summer, God gave me so many friends, Christian friends. Even Lindsey and I got back together, though our friendship was still shaky, it was good to have her back.