The Story of My First Love: Chapter 2

High school was over. I had so much fun as a high school student. I loved my high school, my friends and my life. I would go back and live in my high school years if I could. I graduated top 10% of my class, so I had good grades and my parents sent me off to college. The summer between high school graduation and the start of my college career was a time of testing from the Lord, and I failed!

At the time, I did not look at it as a time of testing, but hindsight is always 20/20, right? Don't get me wrong, I had a lot of fun that summer, but I was swimming in a lifestyle of sin. The sad thing is, no one would ever have known it, except for those involved, because I was really good at hiding my sin and being a hypocrite. This continued up through my third semester of college. The Lord was finally able to get my attention through a ministry-lead ski trip. See, through all of this, I was heavily involved in a ministry at school: Razorbacks for Christ. My cousin and I decided that we wanted to go on this ski trip, so we signed up, bought the gear and packed our bags! I will never forget the gut feeling we both got as we walked into the room of strangers the night we were suppose to drive to Colorado. We both looked at each other and were thinking the same thing: "What are we doing? We don't know anyone here! Let's go home!" We were ready to turn around and head home, but God had better plans! We walked to a van, got in, and hoped that the people would at least remember our names. Well, God had this group of people all planned out for us to spend the next some odd hours driving to Colorado with. They were so welcoming, open arms and all love! It was over the course of those few days in the mountains of Colorado that God opened my eyes, my heart and caused me to become tender to his voice, and turn around and run into His arms! So, I did. This meant one thing, I had to change my lifestyle. I had to let go of the sin I was living in. I didn't want to. It meant that I might lose some friends and things that went along with those friends. God's strength brought me through it, holding me up in those times of weakness. And began the road to a real, life changing relationship with Jesus Christ. I began to fall in love with Him all over again!