I could have never believed that my life would take the kind of turns it has since the day I gave up going after the things I wanted and simply surrendered. I can tell you much of my life I thought I was ” giving my best” as a christian. I mean what more could he want of me? I lived morally because I was taught to do so, I was a good person, and I prayed. But, throughout my life there was a unique tugging that was constantly on my spirit.

When I surrendered I had no idea where it would take me. I had experienced so much change staying on the wrong path that I was on. I had no idea that my life was about to change consistently moving in the right direction. I wish I could tell you it was all fluffy feelings and butterflies and much of it was because of the consistent peace I felt in my heart and the contentment caused by the fixation of my eyes on God despite any circumstance around me. I mean compared to what I left behind it was gold. But, I had only experienced tripping backwards. Tripping as I was falling forward was a foreign experience but one I would soon get to know.

As I have walked I’ve taken some risks to follow what I thought in my heart he wanted me to do. For so long I ignored him, not believing that the road he had for me was the right one for me, so I decided to take an extreme approach during the last year of doing whatever he wanted me to do. I wish I could say I was perfect at that. But all in all, the places I have been, the experiences I have had, and the breakthroughs that have been achieved level by level, step by step have been meaningful.

After a year of surrender, I am here to say- thank you Jesus.