Thank you for visiting my Homepage. Please be kind enough to sign my guestbook so that I can thank you personally. My sole purpose in having a web-site is to share the Love of Jesus Christ with others. I hope that you will take the time to visit all my other pages. They are spiritually uplifting and educational as well as interesting and fun.
I always feel more at home when I go to visit someone, if I know a little bit about them. I want you to feel relaxed and at home with me, as I share my heart, and my Saviors love with you. So let me introduce myself, my name is Karen and I am a 56 year old, Christian wife, mother and grandmother. I have major health problems that I am only able to deal with because I have Jesus in my life. I have been a believer in Jesus Christ since September of 1988. I have made a personal commitment to Christ to put Him first. And in trying to be faithful to God, one of the things I have done is to make attending church a priority in my life, not an option! My home church is Mt. Spokane Church, in Mead, Washington, which is just a few minutes North of Spokane (be sure to visit my Church Family Page). God has given me special gifts (just like He has given all of you) and He has opened many doors for me to use those gifts in a positive way.
Over the years my loving relationship with Jesus has become the most important thing in my life. It is what keeps me going and without Jesus I know that I am nothing. He is my all and my everything. Now, you can become better aquainted with me, by reading my 'Faith Story' (found on this page) or my 'Health Faith Story' (found in my Christian Pages).
It is my hearts desire to share God's Love for you, throughout all my pages. I believe as a Christian I am to let my light shine, in the dark. In other words, be a positive influence in the world, for Jesus, by letting God's Love work in me and through me and flow out to others. I pray that you can experience God's Love and be encouraged, as you visit and read my pages.
Some of my pages are lengthy, but I believe worth the reading. My resources have been taken from my life experiences, the miracles that God has done in my life, and most importantly my personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Several years ago I found myself having to take inventory of my life. I lacked inner peace and purpose, and the loneliness and emptiness I felt was more than I could stand. I had been in an extremely abusive marriage, which ended in divorce; my children were growing up and going their own ways; my health was deteriorating with no hope of recovery. I was
All of these things left me feeling abandoned and unloved. As an abused person I had put up walls around my heart that kept me from being happy. My soul was empty and unsatisfied. So, I began searching for ways to become fulfilled. I started to surrender my moral convictions. In fact, I was on the road to becoming something I never thought I would be, an immoral woman. My life was totally unmanageable and out of control.
I finally reached a point where I just knew that there had to be more to life than what I was experiencing. I still felt that finding love would be my answer. I had tried all the wrong ways to find LOVE, so I decided to try church. It was a real personal struggle for me to go inside the church building, but once I was there, it was as if every word the pastor said was directed right to me. The message I heard and the decision I made that morning was the most important one of my life. I realized that the love that I was missing and searching so desperately for was the love that Jesus Christ was waiting to give to me but couldn't, because of my disobedience to Him. I learned that Jesus loved me so much that He died on the cross-for me (John 3:16). That day I learned that
That Sunday (14 years ago) I prayed and asked Jesus into my heart, receiving salvation. God's greatest gift of grace. I also asked Him to take control of every area of my life and that I might live for Christ. I have discovered that God's Love and my growing personal relationship with Him fills all the voids that I myself tried to fill. It wasn't until I met Jesus and developed a personal relationship with Him that I was able to experience God's grace in my life. Now Jesus makes me feel whole and I feel the acceptance of God's love for me.
I still have trials and tribulations in my life, but I have peace knowing Jesus is always with me. The Bible says Jesus will never leave you nor forsake you and that promise is very comforting to me.
At this time in my life, the Lord has blessed me with a wonderful Christian husband. We are growing together in our relationship with Jesus. I am not saying we don't have our struggles, but Christ gives us His strength and His power to get through those difficult times. And I personally am striving to let Christ control all of my life. He has given me a whole new set of priorities to live by, as well as a purpose for living. With God's gift of grace I will continue in His strength to live for Him. Using the failures and struggles in my life as stepping stones, not as stumbling blocks. But the greatest thing of all is that I know for certain that my hope is in being with Christ in eternity. That I am a child of God
At this time I am the author and webmaster of this site. But I want to acknowledge my son Brian. All the encouragement he has given me on starting my own site has been immeasurable. I couldn't have done it without his help and encouragement. Thank you son, I love you.
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