FINDING MY OWN WAY
With Jesus By My Side

Isaiah: 43:18-19
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past (Thank you, Lord). See I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up. Do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.

Everyone has a story. My one friend has a daughter who is just beginning middle school. The teenage drama is about to begin.
I think back to the little, immature girl, I once was. Then God began to take me on a journey. As my husband always states….”With God’s help, everyone has to find his/her own way. One doesn’t stop growing and maturing in Christ until the day God takes him home.”
*In grade school, I was a leader and followed all the rules. I was blessed in many ways. However, I had to deal with a great deal of dysfunction at home.
*In high school I was cute, fun, I worked hard at my school work. However, I lived in the country. It was 20 miles to school, traveling city buses. I had neither time, nor the support of family to join in extra-curricular activities. Therefore, I wasn’t super-confident and wasn’t one of the most popular girls, until my senior year. I dated some, but was a homebody. I was still trying to survive the dysfunction at home.
* First year of College: The University was large and party city. My brother encouraged me to join a sorority: which I hated. I was a little fish in a big, big pond. I needed to belong, and I didn’t fit in there.
* Wilmington College: It was a perfect fit for me. It was a small school 45 mins. to home. I loved the small school, country atmosphere. Struggling through school, and imperfect relationships, were all stepping-stones to finding and appreciating my Christian husband.
*After building a farm, raising 3 sons, and 37 years of teaching, life experience makes one wise. By finding my own way, with God and my husband beside me, I grew in ways that I never dare dreamed.
The changes my husband and I both adhered to, in order to create a solid marriage, were not easy steps to take. Man we both look back at what we were like 46 years ago and admit that we were both a mess in many ways.
Yes, God does not hold us responsible for former mistakes, once we repent. He says, “That our sins are removed as far as the east is from the west.”
HEAVENLY FATHER: I praise you for creating all things new, through His Son, Jesus Christ. I pray for all who read this to cry out,”ABBA…FATHER, recreate me.!” Amen.
Sue Cutler
Fearless Faith