Hope Restored

We had to write our story in a 'creative' way this week, here's what I came up with...

"He was born on a cold winter day in central Minnesota, blue eyes, blond hair and a pink bow on his head. His parents were missionaries, his grandparents were missionaries in fact his whole extended family were missionaries. Needless to say adventure and the nations ran through his blood.

He grew up with little money and wasn’t able to travel much only leaving the country for two weeks in his 21 years of life. But that was all about to change, something radical was about to happen is his life. You see he always wanted to see the world but he was told that he would end up just like his parents, no money, bad jobs, stuck in the suburbs forever miserable. He lost hope, and the pain of that hopelessness was too much for him to bear alone, so he turned to drugs and he turned to alcohol. To ease the pain and to escape from the reality of the life that he was stuck in, the life that he couldn’t escape.

He would hit rock bottom and cry out to God “please save me, I’ll do anything!” and God would lift him back up, but as soon as he was on his feet again he would start to run back to the same things that eased his pain before. Repeatedly he would hit bottom again and cry out again and God would lift him back up again and again and again. But that was about to change, something radical was about to happen in his life.

The hopelessness kept building and the darkness got darker he felt time was running out that he was wasting his life away but the more he tried to fix it the more he tried to escape this life the more he realized that he couldn't do it on his own and the more hopeless he became. But that was about to change, something radical was about to happen in his life.

He started to explore this God that he had always cried out to and he found out something that he never knew before. He found out that you can have a relationship with this God and if you could have a relationship with this God that meant that this God was real and if this God was real that meant that there was hope. And this radical fact changed everything. His hope was restored.

 He lifted his hands and said once again “God I will do anything, please save me!” But this time he meant it, he knew that it was real. And God began to take him on a journey. A journey that took him around the world, a journey that broke everything in him, a journey that cleansed him, that gave him passion and worth. A journey that gave him confidence and hope. God gave him the life that he always dreamed of but never could've had on his own.

It hasn't been an easy journey, but I wouldn’t trade my experiences for anything. I don’t know where I’ll be going next but I do know one thing, I’ll be going there with hope. "