From Stripper to Sunday School Teacher

How did this happen? Well I started dancing when I turned 21 years old. I had a young child and a baby daddy that didn’t help much financially. I danced to make money and to feel “sexy”. I did this for a while, I moved clubs a couple times and got into some pretty heavy stuff along the way. I dated a bunch of different guys, including my husband, and I did a lot drugs. I tried cocaine for the first time in a bathroom stall 🤦🏾‍♀️. I snorted my first Percocet in that very same stall. Oh and I experienced my first taste of ketamine- it was not great. I’ve been roofied a few times and fallen off the stage before my song came on. I’ve been raped (trigger warning), and I’ve come very close to being trafficked. That last one was by God's grace alone. I have lived a very sinful life you guys, most of which I’m not proud of. But I lived it. I was spiritually dead the whole time too.

I knew God existed but I thought He was ashamed of me because of what I was doing. When I look back at it now though, I see that He was with me, loving me the whole time. My life could’ve been a whole lot worse, but God still had a plan for me. When I moved out of Ohio, I didn’t know where life was going to take me. I got married and spent the first year of marriage completely black out drunk. I’m not exaggerating. I was wasted almost every day that first year. My husband never left me, he just loved me and worked a lot. I got pregnant with my youngest son in 2019 and gave birth in 2020. I know now it was God's way of getting me to stop drinking and giving me another chance at life. I had my son and my life changed. I had peace, and then I tried to mess it up again. Oh, side note, I’m sort of a self-sabotaging person. So I decided one day I wanted to drink, and I did. I got so drunk that I blacked out (shocking), I puked a lot, and cried out to God to help me. I asked Him to save me from myself. The next day I was hungover and determined to never drink that much again. I took a year before I drank again.  I still smoked pot for a while but that’s another story for another day.

In 2022, I decided I wanted to start fresh. I started going to a new church, which I’m currently at, and I wanted to make new friends. I wanted to make an effort at being social. So I joined a 5k race and met a very special woman (I won’t mention her name.) But that was the start of my new beautiful story. After being at my current church for a few months, I was asked to teach children’s Sunday school. I immediately accepted and I haven’t been the same since. Learning about Jesus with 1st-3rd graders is awesome. It’s teaching me how to have faith and receive the Kingdom like a little child. Jesus teaches about that in Luke 18:17. He says, “Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."

It’s amazing what God has done in my life in such a short time. I am a completely different person. I don’t listen to the same music anymore, I don’t desire to watch the same shows or movies that I used to watch. I don’t think the same anymore. God has done a mighty work in me and He’s still working on and in me. All this happened because I wanted a change, I didn’t want to be the same anymore. If you desire the same kind of transformation, please call out to the Lord. He is literally waiting for you to be ready. Do not walk, run to Jesus right now. Let Him change your entire life.