As I got older, I continued in my love for writing, but never doing anything of value with it. In fact, my "diaries" were so drama ridden, that I was sure they could create a soap opera based on my life entitled "As The Mess Gets Uglier". Surprising to me, one day in the midst of my average life, I was involved in a head on collision that changed my life forever. Save your tears - this collision was fantastic!
Since Jesus slammed me head on with a Mack truck impact (the kind that looked like the tractor trailer fight scene between Morpheus and Twin creeper things in the Matrix: Reloaded, ending in a head on collision that ended in an accordion rippled blast and fireball explosion), things have happened that are unexplainable. Experiences like supernatural walking in forgiveness and being instantly set free form my selfish ways and thinking (this is just a scratch on the surface) - that you only read about in a "Ten Minutes In Hell" type book, were happening to little old me. No one can understand it; no one really gets it. If people are actually "listening" to what I'm saying, they're thinking the whole time that what I'm describing as my life is surely made up. Well, I wasn't making it up. ....and it's still happening! (thank you Jesus!!!)
I decided to venture out on this blog for a couple of reasons:
- I need a new diary to track all the amazing stuff that's happening to me - the old ones are all filled up.
- If I can share just small bits and pieces of this life with someone that will shine an once of hope in their life, then it's worth it.
- I love to write.
- Because my life has been riddled with so many nay-sayers - people that insisted on telling me that I needed help: some were right and I ignored them before doing something about it (I'm still a work in progress, but me and Jesus - we're straight now). Others were dead wrong and refused to give God credit for what He was doing in me because they were too busy hatin' - and were sure I was in denial...well, I wasn't. Because of people's negativity, I've spent so much of my life believing that God didn't love or care that much about me to do such things. Well, truth is, that's exactly why He did such things! And my walking in such FREEDOM should not be contained to just me....I had to share!
All that to say - my life is extraordinary! It's hard to put into words sometimes. You may not believe what I have to say either. But I have no reason to exaggerate or make stuff up. If I can take a little bit of this "Extraordinary Joy" that I have been given: post it on a blog or share it with you in real life; and you can embrace it with the same faith and surety and passion that I have, I can help you to walk it out (because it is possible!). If I can do that, then I have been blessed and able to put feet behind this next step in the purpose and plan for my life and have been amazingly used by God to help you take the next big step in being "Extraordinary YOU"!
