I love my Ohio.
I couldn’t always say that. It’s a recent development that I’m able to declare this honestly.
My entire life up until 9/6/2014 was spent living in this state and a lot of hurt, sorrow, loss, & depression haunted me when I returned here from traveling the world through the ?World Race.
I had a lot to face- ghosts, skeletons, demons, whatever you want to call it- they were all waiting for me here and I felt trapped.
For reasons I may write about later I had planned to visit my family in California for 2 months. While staying with my parents and 3 youngest siblings, I realized how much disdain I had for Ohio. Without meaning to I had pinned all my pain on it & had begun hating it.
Hatred is poison- no matter what it’s pointed at in your life. If you have it in your heart it is hurting you.
God wants goodness for his children and his heart breaks when our’s do.
He cares so much for the state of my heart that he redeemed the state of my heart and showed me what hate had overshadowed.
My family began here.
I had my first Love here.
I accepted Christ here.
My entire life started here.
Now there is an overwhelming and inspiring amount of goodness where I only saw pain once.
This is how much God loves us. He wants us to be free- truly free from darkness and it is only through Him that it can be done.
//”The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.” ??
– John 1:5
