The Journey

My story began in a Christian home full of love and joy. At the age of six, I gave my heart to Jesus during Vacation Bible School in an unforgettable moment marked by simple, childlike faith.

As I grew older, my understanding of faith became shaped by a legalistic church environment that emphasized striving and rule-following instead a relationship with Jesus. Over time, faith began to feel like responsibility rather than freedom, and I learned to measure myself by standards I could never fully meet. Instead of resting in God’s love, I lived with a quiet fear of not being enough.

By my teenage years, that fear had grown into anxiety and depression, and my sense of identity was lost.

During my freshman year of college, I reached a breaking point and walked away from God, exhausted and fed up with religion. But in His kindness, the Lord pursued me. He placed people in my life who lived out the gospel with humility and love, and through them, He gently drew me back to His heart.

That season marked the beginning of having a real relationship with God. From that point on, it wasn’t just about what I knew and an image that I had to maintain; I was on a healing journey that led me to trusting God, relying on His grace and not my own effort, and being confident of my identity in Him.

If you’d like to hear more, please watch this short video.