I grew up in a Christian family that taught me about God throughout my younger years. I had moments of closeness with the Lord as well as times of questioning. There were times throughout my life, when I experienced His hand directing my path as well as times I felt He had abandoned me and distanced Himself from me. In my mid-thirties, I experienced a very testing time in my life. I was left questioning the goodness of God yet yearning for His goodness to be true. Though that time was the worst years of my life, those were the years I came to fully realize who God truly was and who I was because of Him. My life has been radically changed since that moment and my heart desires nothing more than to see others, no matter their age, gain that same understanding.
