There's a Better Life

    I didn't know what to blog about this week until "Chain Breaker" by Zach Williams came up on my playlist on my way home. 

     For those of you that don't know this song, it is a song about God, and how wonderful he is. It calls him a chain breaker, pain taker, and a way maker. Sometimes I feel like I have drifted so far from God, like his given up on me when my life or day hasn't gone how I wanted. But, listening to this song and many more on my playlist, I constantly have to remind myself that he loves me, he loves all of his children. I know religion is a touch topic for some people and I totally respect that, but I would just like to share my journey and my walk with the Lord. 

     My family raised my sisters and I up in the same church for about 15 years until Community Bible switched over to Bethel. My parents did not like the change in staff and the way things were ran so we went church hunting for about 2.5 years until we gave up. Soon after we stopped looking , I felt lost, like I alone. I mentally wasn't doing good and I was falling fast. Day after Day I felt more distant from my religion, and I felt like becuase I wasn't going to church, God wouldn't answer my prayers. One Sunday morning I woke up randomly with the feeling on my heart that I needed to go to church that morning. So, I woke up my little sister and asked her to go with me. 

    We went back to Bethel, the same church we left only 2.5 years prior, and I felt relief as soon as we walked in. The Pastor that morning was preaching about feeling stuck and not knowing where to go from there. It was like the sermon was directed towards me. God woke me up that morning for church because he knew what I was going through, he had my back. 

     Nothing compares to how I feel about my Savoir, Jesus Christ. Now I regularly attend church every other weekend becuase I work the other weekends. But, I truthfully don't think I would be where I am today without my church family and without my Jesus. I know now that even without going to church every week God won't leave me, he's always got my back and always have.