This is my testimony. I will not sugar coat this. My past is sprinkled with serious dark times and seriously dark choices. My husband is and was God’s greatest surprise blessing in my life. When we met we were both living the hook up lifestyle, socially drinking, and at times using social drugs. We fit. We could party together. We got along wonderfully and starting “dating exclusively” pretty quick. I found out I was pregnant. Immediately, I attempted to clean up my act and moved home. We broke up and the anger began to fester. Not anger at myself for my choices, but inappropriate anger at the world.  I went through years of excruciating battles. I made a string of somewhat positive changes in my life, through education,  old fashioned hard work, and sacrifice. I appeared to have it all together from the outside. On the inside I was insecure, angry and ashamed of my past. Then God came. I came to our church in seeker mode. At first I was looking for a different life for my daughter, then 2. I kept coming back, looking to fill a hole in myself I had never been able to fill with other things. I knew something was missing and I hoped I would find it…..well…… God moved in my life, into that hole. He rocked my life and has been ever since! I asked him into my heart, was baptized and it is a whole new life! God brought Chad and I together and then back together. He gave us a family and a life. God worked and is working real miracles in our lives. We fell in real love, Christ centered love. The rest is history…..