Have you ever heard the song looking for love by Johnny Lee???
Well let me tell you something, I have and I can relate! We’re always looking for love in all the wrong places until we find HIM.
I can’t spend time telling you that I grew up in a religious house hold, I can’t spend time telling you that I read my bible every night or spent time memorizing scripture, and I can’t tell you that my family spent much time in a church out side of a holiday tradition where we would go to church on christmas Eve because of this being that I knew I loved because my parents had told me that he was the one that “saved” me.
I grew up in a house hold where my parents taught me the difference between RIGHT and WRONG. They taught me the very best they could, but like any other teenager, I broke the rules, I had boyfriends that they didn’t approve of, I drank when I wasn’t supposed to, I wasn’t at church every Sunday morning.
BUT….
I’ve always been the girl to give the homeless man/woman on the side of the road the money I had, I’ve always helped the ones I love simply because I love them, I’ve always been the person to give someone a second chance, a third chance, maybe even a FOURTH chance.. or really as many chances as it takes for them to “get it”, I’ve always LOVED with a full heart, and I’ve always known that every day is a blessing.
GOD has blessed me with an amazing family, a wonderful career, the best friend a girl could ask for, friends that I know I can always count on, AND finally a relationship with HIM that no one can ever compare to.
“I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are you works; for my soul knows it very well” – Psalm 139:14
I didn’t start out on God’s team, simply because I didn’t know or understand what that was. Any person or people, and I hope that the majority of my squad is, that grew up from the get-go in a household that was brought up in the church to understand who he is and what he has done is so BLESSED.
BUT, I… am equally as BLESSED… because he reached me.. he reached me the way that no human-being could, he has brought me here.. my CALLING.. the reason I am alive. It’s all a part of each of our plans. No better or worse than the other, we were all brought together to learn from and help each other. 
I hope that I can help him reach the late bloomers (like myself) on the WORLD RACE and really, truly start a change in this wonderful world of ours.. because..
IT IS BEAUTIFUL.
Thanks guys for listening, and God bless you all! Happy 4th of July weekend <3
Darlene
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