Storm Stories: God Is The Sunrise We Seek Through The Storms

You’ve already heard from her Mom–TheOvercomer who found a Refuge–but today we have a Storm StoryTeller whose thoughts are really, like, rad ’round these parts, man!  Like…Ya know, dude?  (Sorry, that was me trying to be cool.)  Take it away, Trina!

A FRIEND THROUGH THICK AND THROUGH THIN

by Trina

Hi my name is Trina, i am 16 and currently in the tenth grade, and this is my storm story. I wasnt always a believer in Christ and i think it would be said the same for my family. About 8 or 9 years ago we had moved from our little trailer park to a real development. Well i was 7 at the time and was soon going to be 8. I had plenty of friends at school and many of them lived near by, so we would often go to eachothers homes and play. After we moved things were a little bit diferent….ok a lot different, but I had no clue that our lives were going to change for the absolute best. Pretty soon I was going to start at new school with all new people, and I was very nervous, and really missed my old friends. Things didnt seem very easy like I thought it would…..I was usually pretty good at making new friends and be pretty social with others, but for some reason it was like I forgot how to do that. So instead of making friends right away, I  had already met people who had decided they were not going to like me, even if it killed them. So this was a pretty big change for me. Well a couple of weeks were starting to go by and I was not adjusting like I wished. and on top of school not going well, my parents had decide we were going to start going to church, every sunday! I was lets just say not the only kid in the house un happy about that. We started attending this one church near our new house and well we started going there because that was were I was taking martial arts class. We began going and I started to meet people who were, well different, but there were also some that were just like me and I didnt see any thing different about them. For a couple of weeks we had attended church and sunday school. i actually began to like sunday school, but I felt weird because both of my sibblings were not enjoying it. and one of my sibblings already thought I was a goodie goodie and this just didnt help that I actually liked it. I started to get interested in why is Jesus important and I want to go to heaven. In sunday school my teacher Gladys was so so nice, and she would every sunday talk to us about the people in the bible and tell us stories about how GOD loves us and his love never ends, and the thing she said that hit me the most at the time was GOD wants to be your FRIEND. and at the end of each class we had she would tell us if we wanted to have Jesus in our lives all we had to do was pray which is just talking to GOD and asking him to live in our hearts. Then she said that after we do that we never have to do it again. I felt like this is what I dont have that she does. I NEED THIS, I thought about it the whole rest of the day, and i remember that night I was laying in my bed and I was still kind of scared of my new room, and so I began to pray and I know that GOD was with me in my room sitting on my bed while I prayed, I remember just saying, Jesus I know you love, but please help me know that you are real. Help me believe! as soon as i said this, I am not kiddin here when I say this…I felt a hand rubbing my head and moving my hair. i automatically felt a calming peace all around me. When I went to touch the hand it went away, but I new it was GOD. there was nothing going to stop me from telling my mom…and I did as soon as I got out of my bed I ran for my mom and told her that I was just praying, and I know GOD is real, HE is real!!! But now that I look back on that year GOD was teaching me something and I didnt even know it. HE is my friend, and HE is the true friend that is there through thick and thin. I still struggle with this every now and then, but I just have to remind myself, GOD never goes away even when I stray! I am happy though to say that all my sibblings have decided to have Jesus in there lives, and my parents love the LORD, and I pray to be like they are in every situation. To GOD be the glory! 

Now if she could just stop calling me MRNorEaster…