Where do I start?
Oh yeah, Hi my name is Daniel Castillo, Born May 31st, 1989 in Washington DC to a loving christian family.
Currently living in Shawnee, Oklahoma! WOO!​
Yes I know, it doesn't sound like a very interesting place, but to say the least….this is the place, where I found healing, found my self, and found the abundant love of the Father for me!
So for that reason and many others, this is where I currently call home 
Me in a nut shell, my parents were both missionaries in Bolivia for about 9 years of my life, and after their failed marriage, the loss of my identity both as a son and man, it was in Gods plan for me to return to the US for the continuation of my education. Little did I know, but healing and a freedom I had never experience before would come all entwined with his amazing plans for my life.
High school in Maryland was, well lets just say the best 4 years of my life!
I was in every possible club, played some sports, and well was pretty comfortable being know by teachers, students and parents as the "good kid".
In the mean time so many lies, insecurities, struggles and questions were being stuffed deep down inside my heart, and thinking they would go away i decided to proceed with my next step and went off to college.
I thought I had made it, and due to the lack of "God's reality" to me, or so i thought I also decided that Daniel-without-God would work, as long as I stayed focused, finished my Pre-Med program, got into medical school, and well earned so much money no one could ever touch me! I can't tell you how wrong I was.
Freshman year of collge, is the year I like to call, the year of EXPOSURE. This is the year where I Got to see the real state of my heart. Drugs, alcohol, and several attempts of suicide later I was finally coming to the realization that my heart wasn't only hurt, but I had really neglected the fact that I was in desperate need of freedom, love and a real father.
It was in the midst of this year that God started pursuin my hear like never before, and after an amazing encounter with the Fathers love, I left the school I was attending, and decided to stay home in order to seek his love, will and healing for my self. That next year I attended my local community college, and surrounded my self with a community of believers that loved me uncontionally, people that loved me through my failures, my struggles with homosexuality, YUP you heard it right, God had exposed years of psychological, sexual and physical abused that later fueled further my strugles with homosexuality.
I was at a point where I had to CONFRONT, and be Intentional about seeking his heart and Love for me!
No more secrets, not more walls, no more HIDING! I finally found a place, a community and a GOD that wanted my freedom more than I wanted it for my self!!
It's been 4 years Since I have given my life fully to the lord, and seeked out His will for me, and trust me some days are better than other…..but Jeremiah 29:11-13 (Msg.) “I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I’ll listen. When you come looking for me, you’ll find me. Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I’ll make sure you won’t be disappointed. This is God’s Decree.” promises that He will never dissapoint, and that He will always know what He is doing in me, even when I don't! So I Hold on to that promise.
The way God called me to the race is a whole different crazy story, and in short words, put an every day TV shows, ad some tears, and a heart burning for the Lord and his world and voila, you have me HERE!
I am so excited to see where the World Race will take me emotionally, spiritually and in general.
My plans have been forever changed, and it scares me sometimes, but I am ok with that….Cause I have the God of the universe in control of the outcome of my life! Thank God, literally that I don't have to have it all together or figured out, because He always will!!!
Thank you so much for reading this, and I apologize from the bottom of my heart for taking so long to write an About Me! This is my story, my is to share not only this, but the abundant love I have received from Him, with YOU and the WORLD!
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LOVEEE,
Dan.
PS: sorry for any typos. Just keeping it raw. 
