People who have stood beside me in this journey



Mrs.Christine and I

My Family( My parents showed me true love)

Me,Candace(Mrs.Christine's daughter), Mrs.Christine, Kasie,Lexy

Lexy, Me, Mrs Christine, and Kasie

I have been very blessed have people in my life to help bring healing. When I first started going to church I met a family who was very close to my foster parents. The mother( Christine) began to get very involved in our life. God had laid it on her heart that she was to minister to girls. Through this she began to sow seeds in my life.She would constantly slip me letters to build me up. Everything she did she always pointed back to God. I always felt very safe with her in the beginning of our relationship. I felt like I could tell her anything and she wouldn't love me any less. On time in one of her letters she told me she always wanted a daughter named Destiny. She said that it was a powerful name and that there was great meaning in my name. Her first born turned out to be a son. When she told me that I thought it was the craziest thing because my foster mom wanted a daughter named Destiny and she got two. Mrs. Christine has helped me through a great part of the healing that Jesus has for me and she continues to sow seeds in my life as of today. Another mentor was a lady named Heather. I met her in the summer of 2011 doing nursery in the summer. I was terrified of going to my own youth group because I felt like I wouldn't be accepted and there were so many cliques. She wondered why I didn't go and so I told her. She tried for weeks to get me in there.Then she finally told me she had a feeling there was something bugging and so she took me out of nursery and prayed for me. I began to open up and tell her things that I can't even begin to blog about. There is still so much hurt from the past still that is hard to let go. After that day when she prayed for me I felt like some chains were breaking free and some of the things were not haunting my mind anymore. She is now like a big sister to me. I began to go to youth group and disregarded the lies of the enemy saying that no one in there would like me, I wasn't pretty enough to be in their group. I went in anyway and kids began to come up and talk to me and I knew right then and there that it doesn't matter what you look like or your social status. We are to love like Jesus loves and the kids in the youth group that night showed me that. I began to love it and I usually go every week. The youth pastors wife got really excited when my sisters and I started coming. It has truly blessed and has made such an impact on my life to all these people who have taken their time to minister to me and to be a phone call away if I ever needed them.I am especially blessed by my adoptive mother Amy who sacrificed to take my siblings and I.  She made my life better by giving me a safer environment and loving me unconditionally.