Hey there!
I'm feeling emotions of excitement and nervousness at the same time. Obviously, it is my first post on this forum. Hmm, let me stop rambling and get on with my introduction for those who may be curious, okay?
So I'm Christina and I'm 22 years old. I actually found my faith (please forgive me if I have weird choices of words, I am not a native speaker of the English language
) very, very recently. As recently as October of last year! But I'm very excited and keen to learn more. I was raised in a family where my father is a believer, but my mother isn't. In my childhood, me and my mother especially were treated rather poorly by people who claimed to be Christians and I don't blame my mother for her feelings towards Christianity. But I'm hoping to show her how beautiful it is to love God and receive His limitless love in return.
Actually my first impression of Christianity was quite scarring. An old woman that I loved visiting once told me about God and faith, she also told me describing very vividly, that my mother would burn in the eternal fire of hell. I was maybe, like, 4 years old? I then had nightmares for a long while and I thought, who is this God and if he really loved everyone like his own children, why would he let that happen to my mother... So I held on to my negative views for a really long time. I no longer carry any hard feelings though, as I know that she only wanted the best for us, but didn't really have the greatest technique.
Until recently, I came across this young, beautiful, Christian couple. It was obvious that God was the center of their relationship, and His love was shining all over me through them. They were glowing. It was the beginning of my journey to faith and God. Ever since then I can not stop listening to worship songs and reading the bible. I feel like I'm finally home! Do you guys know what I mean with this feeling? It's like the these 20+ years of my life I've been wandering around and now I finally found my way home.
Now I wish to find more people to connect with, to discuss God.
Thank you for reading my introduction (if you made it this far, I can ramble quite a lot).