December 17th, 2008
Hello, my friend,
Welcome to my blog. I’m excited you’ve decided to join me. I would like to share a little about myself, so you’ll 
have an idea of where I’m coming from and why, even after a lifetime of relationship with my Lord, I still find myself crying out for God to do His work in my life.
Raised in a Christian home by godly parents, I was very fortunate to have been loved, protected, taught right from wrong, and given many opportunities to mature and develop the talents and abilities God has given me. As a very young child, I asked the Lord Jesus Christ to come into my heart. I never remember not loving God and wanting to please Him with my life. In the midst of a rather strict, conservative home and church, it didn’t take me long, however, to create a list of activities and actions that I felt would surely please or displease God and other people as well.
You see, I misunderstood that it was not my own righteousness that would make me right with God. All through my growing up years, I felt, as I looked at my life, that I was basically a good person. I knew I did bad things once in awhile, but I felt that God was surely pleased with all that I did for Him.
It wasn’t until after I was married and had my first child that I came face to face with my own heart. You see, I had defined “sin” as something bad that we do, when the Bible says it is a condition of our hearts and the motivator of the “sins” we commit.
Through a series of disappointments and shattered dreams, I finally came to the end of all my own efforts, saw the sin of my heart — pride, manipulation, self-centeredness, and so much more –and, for the first time in my life, saw that I was not basically good at all. My heart was sinful, and without God’s mercy I was totally lost. It was at that point, as I cried out desperately to God for His grace and power in my life, that I finally experienced forgiveness and assurance of salvation.
Since that time, I have been on a journey toward freedom. Over the years, Christ has been graciously purifying and changing my heart, opening my eyes to the lies I believed that had crippled and bound me. He has drawn me into His lavish grace and mercy. I’ve been on this journey now for about 40 years and He continues His work in my life.
I pray that some of what I have experienced and learned will bless you and point the way to true freedom, which, by the way, only comes with complete surrender to the only One who can set us free, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. “…if the Son sets you free, you will indeed be free!” John 8:36 NLT