Rejoicing Always

             As you can tell, it has taken a while for God to lay on my heart exactly what my first post would be about. He spoke this to me yesterday as I was sitting in my amazing church service and it was seriously like a "duh" moment! What better way to start off this blogging experience than to share my testimony of salvation?!?!             Like many of you, I was raised in church. I grew up in a house where there was no question as to whether we were going to church on Sunday mornings. I was thankfully raised by amazing Christian parents who always showed me the love of Christ. From as far back as I can remember, I was always the "good girl". I never wanted to get in trouble and always wanted to do the right thing. When I was about 9 or 10 years old, fear struck my heart. I didn't want to go to hell. I was always a worrier and that freaked me out! So one Saturday morning, as I was sitting in my room with curlers in my hair getting ready for a pageant, I

For a while now, God has been showing me Psalm 34:5. He has been reminding me that when I feel dull and feel as though my light has gone out, it's simply because I am not looking to Him. But recently, He laid this blog on my heart. Once He did, this verse and the word "Radiant" started showing up everywhere. So I knew it was time I acted on His calling to this.                 A blog may not seem like much to some people, but I believe I CAN reach people through this and I feel as though that is what God is calling me to do right now. In this dark world we live in, and as it keeps getting darker every day, we need more radiant hearts. More radiant lives. More radiant smiles. More people radiating the love of Christ.               I will not get into too much of my story today, because I will be unfolding it in later posts. But let me tell you I am NOT perfect. I have NOT had a perfect life, though at one time I was striving to. I suffered from anorexia for around 3