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I was born in the year 1982, to a mother who was in the medical field – and to a father who was in the air force.
I was initially brought up Church of Christ in a small town church with a population of about 2000 people – my church only topping at about 100 people.
I remember being so strong in faith, even as a little boy.
I can remember praying in my bed for God to protect me from this world at even the age of two.
I moved to Germany when I was five years old, because my dad got stationed there, leaving my friends and life behind and headed to a place that I knew nothing about.
For three years, while living in Germany, we never went to church – and I suppose that is when my falling really began.
I remember thinking to myself: Why can’t we go to church?
I asked my mom and dad, and they said because the only local churches were Catholic and they didn’t want to go there.
When we moved back to the states, when I was eight, everything had changed so much from what I remembered – My friends
Had made new friends – nothing was the same.
I began to become very lonely during these years, staying solely to myself and not having many friends until I was about in the sixth grade.
My dad took me to a Baptist Church, where I finally got baptized and began to understand better who God was.
One Day, I broke down in prayer on the bathroom floor of my house, when I was about 11 or 12.
I prayed to God: “Please, remember me this way lord…. The way I am now… for I know one day I will sin greatly and I want you to remember me this way always.”
But like all children, I one day began to fall from my faith – joining a world of sin and regret.
Off and on through the years, I would return to my faith and then fall again.
Now I am 26 years old – about to turn 27 and I am returning again to my faith.
This time, I have a feeling it will be different from the other times and that God will allow me to be stronger than I have been in the past.
I pray to God that I may reconnect to my childhood self and become somewhat as faithful as I used to be.
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With you I rise,
In you I sleep,
kneeling down I kiss your feet,
Grace abounds upon me now,
I once was lost
but now I'm found.
The gift of God dwells within,
To this love I now give in.
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