The love of God is unlike any other love I have experienced before… He changed my life.. He saved my life, He redeemed me.

I did not grow up in the church, my family did not attend church regularly but I was always drawn to church and the teachings of God. I always believed in God and would say that I was a Christian but my lifestyle nor my circle of influenced reflected that. In college, I would attend church on campus every so often and would go to church sometimes when I came home for breaks but many times it was just going through the motions and never allowing my heart to be open and changed. Many of my relationships were unhealthy and caused me to ignore the call on my life… I stayed away from Church… from God. During this time, I developed what I now realize was an unhealthy relationship with alcohol; there was so much happening in my life that I drank to fit in, I drank to let go, I drank to forget. After going through a hard breakup… I knew that I needed to go to church. I began going to church regularly and that is where God reconnected me with my husband whom I’d known since I was in 6th Grade. God is Amazing! We were always friends and nothing more but God brought us together during a fast and the rest has been HIStory.

The defining moment for me in my faith walk was when I was baptized. The day before was my 23rd birthday and we went out that night to celebrating. I did way too much celebrating and got really drunk. The next day I was scheduled to be baptized but when I got to church the next morning, I was still drunk. I felt horrible and unworthy of being baptized. I apologized to God and prayed that he changed my life. That he take the desire for alcohol away from me and that he make me new. When it was my turn to go under the water, I went under as a drunk young girl and came up a renewed woman. Once I came up from the water, all of my hangover symptoms went away… I felt nothing! At that moment I re-dedicated my life to Christ and he honored my prayer of taking the desire of alcohol away. God is so faithful. God has blessed me with an amazing husband and daughter. I love to teach His word… it is so real to me and He saved my life!

I desire to submit my ENTIRE life to HIM… it is hard and sometimes I fail but He is merciful and I continue to try. I desire to be the best representation of Christ I can be and that includes what I wear. I want to dress with purpose, on purpose, for a purpose, and that is what Free Citizen offers for me… Style with grace. To be a free citizen in the Kingdom of God, to abide in him and covered in His grace and mercy is incredible. It’s freeing to know that you are a daughter of THE king and that you are forgiven… it’s powerful.

The love of God is unlike any other love I have experienced before… He changed my life.. He saved my life, He redeemed me.