Shining Like The SonSource: Kristi & Baby Allisa Jo & Daddy Josh Like The Son

Oftentimes through life, people have said to me,
“I knew someday you would amount to something.
Needless to say, that comment really threw me for
a loop. When we’re young, we are so impressionable
and receptive of what we are told. We ass-orb like a
giant sponge. I spent most of my life feeling like I was
nothing, laying low until that magic time when I would
become something. I anticipated both happiness and
fear, wondering what “Something” would overtake me.
If I could handle it or if I might still be so “Nothing”
that it would just pass me by.I grieved over this and
panicked and literally shook in my boots. When I
looked in the mirror–I saw nothing that I considered
worth anything. Somewhere, though, in the core of
my being, I had a Mustard Seed of faith and enough
hope to carry me while on my “Seek and you shall
Find, journey.

My Dad treated us children like we were puppets,
and he controlled the string. Momma wanted to
help give us more confidence and I am sure, tell
us more the things of her heart, but Dad did not
want us to talk, laugh or sing or dance and usually
treated us like me were hell bound. I had nightmares
about fire and brimstone. I would wake up shaking.
I didn’t know who I was or where I was or where I
was going or what I was going to be. I would release
deep-seeded emotions by writing about being a
a cocoon and turning into a beautiful butterfly,
and just flying away–away to somewhere that
I wouldn’t feel pain. I used to say to my Sister,
“What’s wrong with me, do you believe there
is in Doctor who can fix me?” I did not know how
to feel feelings or exactly what emotions were.
My Sister just looked a hole through me, but
didn’t say a word. I thought she knew every-
thing and I took that look as a, “No.”

Little did I know at that time, that tiny Mustard
Seed of Faith could and would come to
move Mountains–and that Almighty God,
Himself had planted that seed in me and
one breath at a time, had kept it growing.
Life is a Battlefield. The Word of God in
our Bible is the Whole Armour. I read it,
i read it, I believe it and I am an heir of
His…Shining Like The Son. We are His
Divine Design and worth everything to
Him from birth till we transform to His
Eternal Place. Knowing Him lets us know
who we are. When I took in the mirror
now…I see the Son.

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