My Testimony!

As you can see I am a Christian. This is not my first meeting with Christ as I have been raised a "Christian" my whole life. I have not been saved recently so that does not explain my closer walk with the Lord these days. So what is it you as. Well I was saved back in June of 2003. Baptized on June 10th to be exact. Until recently I had forgotten the date or why I did it. Hubby and I were thrumming through our bibles on our bookshelf to see where we had gotten some of them and I ran across mine from when I got baptized. June 10th 2003. I kick myself for forgetting this important date but at that time in my life events were all just a fuzz. June 8th I lost a very near and dear love and friend. I can not tell you why I chose then to get baptized maybe it was in the moment kinda thing. Again I am not sure. As for this recent transformation of my life and my thoughts. I have to give some of the credit to my church. I survived this year long deployment with my husband gone to Afghanistan. Many IED incidents, many injuries and two deaths in just his unit. Sleepless and lonely (I look back now I know I was not alone) nights, a lot of crying and worrying, a a lot of putting on my happy face when I did not want to. It was no easy. Hubby came home on emergency leave for a death in the family. As we waited for him to go to demob and complete his training he was home with me 24/7. I loved it!! I was spoiled. Then all of a sudden he got a call to go to Demob in MISSISSIPPI!! He was only supposed to be gone for a few days but because of his back injuries they had to take all the precautions and make sure they had him set up correctly for treatment when they released him. 3 days turned into almost 4 weeks. I became severely depressed. I did not want to go anywhere or do anything. I did not even want to take care of my kids.. =( As a mother that is extremely hard for me to say because I love my children with my whole heart. Lets just say it was bad. My family and friends were extremely worried about me. So one Wednesday night I made a decision that would change my whole attitude and apparently my whole life. I grudgingly took my kids to AWANAS at our church and as I was dropping them off they asked if I wanted to leave Allison so I can attend the service.. I said sure whatever I had no where else to go. Admitting I did not attend the service in person rather sat outside the sanctuary and listened to the preacher preach. I was looking over a newsletter they had given me and seen their Women's Ministries about to start up and my mom called. One looked like it would be interesting and I figured I would drag her along with me. so I signed up for Tuesday morning bible study "Lord Change my Attitude". From Day 1 my attitude about life change dramatically. Hubby shortly returned home to see a changed person and he was so stressed and weary from worrying about himself and me the whole time he was gone. We had a few arguments but got past them. I continued my bible study and he continued to see a change. Maybe it was appealing to him and he wanted to continue to support this change so we began attending church. I love my church, my Sunday school teacher, the staff I just love them all. They opened up for parents to go watch the movie Courageous while the AWANAS staff fellowship with our children. I looked at it as a way James and I can have some "adult" time but it turned out more than that. We are now BOTH walking closer with the Lord. Hubby is becoming an amazing spiritual leader of our home and I am learning to be his "help meet" (see bible for definition =)) God is working in wonderous ways and I could not be more happy with my life.
With all my love,