Gloria’s Story – II
March 8, 2008 | Faith: Knowing Christ
Gloria’s story continues from yesterday. If you would like to share your story, send an e-mail to Suzie.
Gloria’s story – Part II
After trying so hard to be good and trouble free for my mother I rebelled after I graduated from high school.
I had enlisted in the United States Air Force and was due to go in November. I had a few months to kill. I got a summer job and ‘met a guy’.
How quickly I forgot about my ambitions in life. When it was time for me to go into boot camp for the Air Force I was ready to make a hasty decision to marry this man.
I came across the very same minister and his wife who agreed to counsel me before I jumped in too deep. They stopped me from making a huge mistake. They counseled me right there in the Walmart parking lot.
“Does this man you love know the Lord?” I had to answer no.
“Do you want children someday?” I answered ‘yes’.
“Do you see this man getting up with you in the middle of the night with you to pray for a sick child?”…Again I answered ‘no’.
He and I had nothing in common. We wanted two different things in life. I broke things off with him soon after. But it still took awhile. I went through so much before I found my way back to the Lord
It wasn’t until I was to have my own children did I realize we would all be missing something…
I didn’t “know the Lord and have a deep personal realtionship with him”. I didn’t know that “that” is what I was yearning for. I visited a church in my home city in Oct. of 94. I was pregnant with my first child. My mother convinced me to go watch some ‘play’.
So I went. I don’t remember one thing about that play. I was too moved and astounded as I watched the youth group praise God. I had never seen such passion in teenagers.
Where did they get that? I had wanted that at one time. And I knew that someday I wanted the little one I was carrying inside of me to have God in his life.
But I still didn’t go to church. I still walked through trials and losses and rebellion. But each time I thought that I needed to be in church my mind replayed watching those teenagers worship.
After nearly giving up on myself and God, I went back broken and disheartened with humanity and my own life.
I spent a lot of time being hurt and angry at God. I had really been angry with him for the loss of my twin sister who was killed in a car wreck in March of 98. And I wondered if he would really forgive me.
God did forgive me and he fully restored me and saved me and healed me and delivered me. And I know he has touched my life in way that I know I am not the same. And I do know what it is to know him and have a deep personal realtionship with him. And now my children know him. And I can help guide them in lives that the Lord will lead for them. They too will know him, and even better I am married to someone who is saved.
Jesus is real!
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Wow what a story. Some parts seemed so similar to mine and in other parts our lives are worlds apart. We do have one common bond though: The love of God. May your life be blessed.
Greg
March 11th, 2008 at 9:15 am