About Me


May I say this?  God loves you!  God loves me!  God is LOVE!  He formed me in my mother’s womb and knew me intimately from the beginning.  What He has done for me, He will do for YOU.

I was raised in a Christian home — at least that is what my parents would have said.  I was only taken to church on token holidays because my daddy was Baptist and my mother was Methodist.   They didn’t agree to attend the same church until I was married (another story).   I heard my father say the same canned prayer each time we ate together, so at least I did have that tiny bit of exposure to God and Jesus.

When I was 11 years old, I began attending a local Baptist church (which just happened to be the same church my sister attended on her own).   I went because a new friend invited me, not because my family ever encouraged or suggested attending church.  For the first time in my life I was in Sunday school.   We were challenged to learn scriptures each week and heard little lessons about Jesus.   Oh how sweet it was to gather together upstairs and sing hymns on those hot summer days as a child.  If I close my eyes, I can hear the songs of cicadas singing loudly in the woods surrounding that little southern church.  Sweet memories.

Turn the clock forward a few years and my teenage years hit me like a wall.  I began to learn some BAD things.  I didn’t have the foundation of God’s Word in my life and I had no direction.  I followed the desires of my flesh without a care in the world.  I was absolutely walking blindly.  I didn’t realize that my sin had consequences.  I was immature and had no idea what was ahead of me.

At the age of 18, it was as if someone flipped a switch and my life turned upside down!   The once carefree child who loved spending days roaming through her parent’s land, playing with her favorite cousin at her grandparent’s home, climbing trees, riding her pony, driving her motor cycle … everything came to a STOP!

Suddenly I was terrified.  I was on my way to work and when a stoplight turned red I found myself feeling TRAPPED.   I felt dizzy, the world spun around.  My heart raced and my hands began to sweat.  I began to hyperventilate!  All of this happened at one time and I had NO IDEA what had hit me.   I had NO spiritual foundation to know that a spirit of fear had just manifested in my life as a panic attack.   You see, I thought satan was in hell, along with his demons.   I had NO IDEA about spiritual warfare.

2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

You better believe that after the panic attacks started, I began to delve into God’s Word.   I started watching TV evangelists because nobody in my life could help me.  Watching shows like The Believer’s Voice of Victory became a lifeline to me.  I sat with my Bible and took notes through it.  I was in school — a spiritual school that helped me rebuild my foundation and life on God’s Word.   Like I said, I thought demons were in hell.  I had no idea that they could interfere in our lives here on earth!   If we don’t understand there is an enemy, how can we fight him, right?  That is satan’s tactic.  If he and his minions can remain hidden — that is an easy win!

I can say that was the beginning of the WORST years of my life.   I endured MANY years of absolute TORTURE and TORMENT.  I always had a knot of fear in my stomach.   Sleep wouldn’t relieve me.  There was no escape.  You cannot imagine living like that unless you have experienced it for yourself.  Though it was hell on earth, it was also the beginning of my fight for freedom and God’s Word began to enlighten my understanding.   Though it was the worst of times, in a way it was a wonderful time of GROWTH.

I began to devour God’s Word day and night and I learned about spiritual warfare.  I learned that demons were very active in this world and they were the agents behind the torment of my mind and body.  I also learned that GOD IS GREATER and that He had given His children AUTHORITY over every tormenting spirit!  Do I need to write that again?  Because of Jesus and His blood — what He did for us — we have authority over every tormenting demon.  We are NOT helpless.

Fast forward many years and many lessons learned.  I am FREE!  I am free from the demonic strongholds that tormented my mind and ripped at my soul.  What God did for me, He will do for you!

Maybe you are in your darkest season right now.  Seek God and read His Word and you will begin your climb out of the pit.

Jeremiah 29:11-13
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

There is HOPE.  No matter what you’re going through — there is HOPE.  Ask Jesus to reveal Himself to you and He will.

Matthew 7:7
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

God is faithful and freedom belongs to YOU.   I am living proof!  Be encouraged and know that you too may have a life of PEACE.  God bless you today as you reach out to Him and begin a wonderful relationship with Him.

Photo 1: Taken of me as a child.
Photo 2:  Me as a 20 year old – still bound by fear.
Photo 3:  FREE!