Each day that I get up, I am so amazed at how AWESOME the God that we serve is and how someone like me can be loved so much. He has done so much in my life and it is because of His grace and mercy that I am where I am today. I have always considered myself a Christian since I grew up in church, but it wasn’t until my middle school years that I realized what it really meant to call myself a Christian. When I was in the 6th grade, I was told that my parents were on the brink of divorce. This came as a huge shock to me and I had no idea what I would do if my parents did go their separate ways. Just a month after finding that out, I was hit with something else…a diagnosis of Bell’s Palsy. Bell’s Palsy is a disorder of the facial nerves, which causes paralysis of half of your face that typically lasts only three to four weeks. Just one week after being diagnosed, I made the decision to really give my entire life to Christ because I knew I couldn’t get through everything on my own. Throughout the next 6 months, I had to lean on Him more than I ever had before. My case of Bell’s Palsy became a six month struggle of many visits to doctors, many tests, and a lot of medications to try to figure out what was going on to keep it going this long. Throughout this entire time though, my entire church family continued to lift my family and me up in prayer. A little over six months after my diagnosis, I woke up one morning after a bad migraine the night before to find that I had partial movement of the left side of my face back! Within a week, my face was completely back to normal! Praise be to God for His healing touch on my body that no doctor could do!
Throughout high school, I was known as the good church girl that always did the right thing. My senior year though, I started to lose sight of God as I became distracted by a relationship, the sickness and death of my Grandma, and a lot of stuff dealing with school. Shortly after moving to ECU though, I knew it was time for me to give some things up so that I could give my complete attention to God and His will for my life. So I made a lot of changes in my life within the very first week at ECU. Ever since then, I have felt closer than ever to God. I am trusting in Him completely and relying on His strength to make it through difficult and stressful times rather than trying to do it on my own. I know that He has an amazing plan for my life and I cannot wait to see all that He has in store for me from this point forward!
-Elizabeth Price
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