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What has God's grace done in your life?
How many blessing can you count daily? Will you take the time every day to meditate on what God has done for you?
Well, my story is kind of boring I was the normal country tom girl growing up in a farming family, had great values and love, and learned the meaning of hard work and dedication. This ultimately shaped my life even tho at the time I did not realize it. I knew since I was in middle school that I wanted to do hair, I loved making people feel better about themselves and for 29 years the Lord blessed me with many clients, who many not only were clients but turned into my extended family. I have been with my high school sweetheart for now 31 years and we have 2 sons ages 19 and 17 and they are my life, my men as I call them the 3 of them keep me going every day.
I grew up in church did all the things they asked of me of church and thought "I am good", then started hearing the gospel in other ways different preachers and said wait "I am not good". We had decided in early 2000 to start our family and I thought I got to make sure I am right before I start bringing kids into this crazy life of mine. So after a few Sundays of not going down to the altar and saying "I can wait till next Sunday," I just couldn't do it any longer. I stepped out at the altar call and went down and it was just such a sense of peace and calmness like I had never felt.
Fast forward to November 2015 busy with 2 young teenagers playing baseball and full-time hairdresser and I was really tired and didn't feel great but heck who does right? Who's not tired and could take a nap anytime! Then that Monday morning I woke up to a numb foot like when you have had your legs crossed too long. Didn't think much of it until at lunch when it was still numb and I thought this isn't right. But it was Thanksgiving week and I had to cook and get my "little ladies" as I called them ready for Thanksgiving. I don't have time to be sick little did I know the Lord was gonna show me, oh yes you do have time to be sick and slow down. The numbness continued to spread and over the next 3 days I was numb up to my breast, the weirdest feeling in the world to not be able to feel anything. I did not have epidurals with my sons but many have compared it to that feeling, I hope I never feel it again! So we had Thanksgiving and I knew something was bad wrong but I kept saying to myself get thru Thanksgiving and then go to a doctor. An MRI of my lower back showed nothing but they didn't go high enough to see the culprit but 3 days later a friend drove me to the ER and I told her just drop me off I am not leaving till I find out what's wrong. Well a few hours later another MRI of my head and neck and back would tell the true story, the PA came in my little curtained ER stall and said Mrs. Thompson you have Multiple Sclerosis.
Multiple Sclerosis? No not me I am a healthy 42-year-old farm tom girl/hairdresser mama who does what she wants to just about physically and now here I am numb and can hardly walk. Yep it was MS and the MRI and then a spinal tap finished proving it and here I was 42 years old barely walking with a walker. The world literally stopped spinning for me I couldn't believe it I was mad and frustrated at God and like "God what are you doing here"? But with modern medications and a healthy diet after a few months, you could hardly even tell I have MS. I went back to work we bought a camper started camping and life was great again. Or so I thought it was then August 2020 frozen left shoulder took me down, I do mean down wow worse pain I have ever felt (besides childbirth) I couldn't even do my own hair surely couldn't do anyone else's. And once again I said, "Lord what are you doing"? 29 years of hair and boom it was taken from me again, but GOD did you hear me GOD had a plan that I didn't know!
His plan was a few months home recovering from shoulder surgery and some much-needed rest that I didn't even realize I needed but GOD knew. Then in December 2020 I sent Philip Waters a message asking if he needed any office help cause hairdressing was out of the picture. He said yes I do call me, so I did and he said I need your help with Daily Testify, I told him I don't know much but I will give you everything I have and will learn. And wow just wow if we could only trust and leave it to God he knows the plan for us, but we want to make our own plans believe me I know. What a blessing Daily Testify has been to me from meeting new people on here to making me get back into my prayer life as I should and focusing back on God, not the hair or baseball or being a mom but God.
I say all this to say I have been mad with God a lot! He took my daddy when I was 25 I was mad. He took my mother-in-law 3 years later I was mad. Then Multiple Sclerosis hit and I was mad. Then shoulder surgery I was mad. But GOD yes I say it again GOD knew he had Daily Testify for me he had me the whole time I just had to wait and quit being mad all the times that things didn't go the way I thought they should go. It's hard some days to just be thankful and happy with what we have but believe me when it's gone then you really see.
I thank God for my husband and boy's, my mama, friends and my health and my home out in the country and my job and for my life, is it the life I had planned for me? NOPE but God had one even better for me I just had to focus on him and wait........
I am 52 years old and I used drugs and alcohol for half of my life. I began using at the age of 14 the summer after I graduated the 8th grade. Marijuana and alcohol in the beginning and just weekends. By the time I was 16 acid was introduced and pot was an everyday thing. It progressed from there. I became a Father at the age of 20, still using and drinking (cocaine had been added). After loosing my Family at the age of 25 crystal meth came along. I went to Florida and worked for a couple of years to get away. We can not run away from reality. Trying to just drove me deeper to the point I became numb to how selfish and irresponsible I was being. I came home from Florida in 1995. In 1996 (Easter Sunday) I ask Christ to save me. I stayed clean for a few months and then started using again and it escalated too the point I became worse than I had ever been. For the next 12 years my purpose was to make sure I never ran out of alcohol and drugs. My stepdad died in 2004 and my Mama died in 2006. I was under the influence of alcohol and drugs at both funerals. My Mama left the house to me, but I was paying the property tax, couldn’t keep the lights on or groceries. I remember one night, I had borrowed a generator from a friend because I did not have electricity and was upset because it was not strong enough to burn one fluorescent light bright enough so I could see how to smoke meth. Then July 30, 2008 it was my Daughters 20th birthday. No license, no phone, no car, no job and nothing to give Holly and my girlfriend Dawn had left me May 25th. I was at the bottom and fed up with what I had allowed myself to become. That was the end of using and drinking. August of that year Dawn gave me another chance. She started back to Unity Baptist Church in December and I started January and re-dedicated my life to God. I was clean and sober about 6 months when my daughter Holly told me she knew I was clean because she could hear it in voice. I was at the grocery store and I can remember the actual parking spot I was in. Dawn and I got married September 26th, 2009. July 30, 2020 will make 12 years clean, sober and faithfully serving God. When I came back to God, He came to me just like the Father came to the Prodigal son. I pray that the mistakes I made, and my testimony can help someone else make it out of addiction just as God lead me out. God will give you everything you need to make it happen. We cannot make the hurt and pain go away that we caused others, but each day we can make sure we don’t do it again. All the Glory goes to God.