What’s up? I’m Tiffany!
My name is Tiffany Michele Schick. I am 22 years old. I have 1 sister, 2 brothers, and 4 parents. I was born in Dallas, Texas and was adopted shortly after by Michael and Diana Schick. We moved to Reston, VA where I lived for the first 18 years of my life. I also have an incredible little sister, Jessica and dog Sam. I did lots of theatre and music in high school. Then I graduated and when I was 18 I found my biological family and met them for the first time. Over night I gained 2 more parents, 2 younger brothers (Jeffrey and Damian), and more aunts and uncles and cousins than I could count. It was amazing and crazy.
There are so many emotions that go along with being adopted. Maybe not all adopted kids feel this way, but I did. I always struggled with a lack of identity. I had feelings of rejection and abandonment. I tried to involve myself in lots of activities and find somewhere where I was happy. It’s not that I didn’t grow up with a wonderful family, in a christian home even. Along with the hormones and emotion that go along with being a teenager I hated myself. I felt so confused about everything. I felt so misunderstood and different than everyone else. I just desperately wanted to fit in and be loved. I guess thats what everyone wants… right?
I was not in a good place when I met my birth family. I was living the partying life style and was depressed and anxious all the time. I did anything just to feel something else other than the turmoil going on inside my heart. But that really is when things started to turn around. I finally find people who are like me. Who I look like. Who I talk like. Who I think like. It made so much sense. They loved me unconditionally. One night I went to church, I was so depressed but the Holy Spirit and I had a little meeting. I told him that I didn’t want to feel like this anymore. That I didn’t know who I was but I knew I couldn’t meet His standard. I told Him that if He would meet me where I was at then I would follow Him and give Him my life.
Jesus Christ broke chains and addictions. I haven’t been the same since. I now know that the identity I was searching for all my life can’t come from anything in this world. My identity comes from who the King of kings says that I am. It comes from the calling and the plan that He has for my life. It comes from the promises in His Word that he spoke before I was even a thought.
So who am I?
I am the righteousness of Christ.
I am a child of the King.
I am co-heirs with Christ.
I am seated in heavenly places with the God of the universe.
I am chosen for such a time as this.
I am successful because if God is for me who can be against me.
No weapon formed against me can prosper.
Now don’t get me wrong. We all have our off days, but when I am weak He is strong because greater is He who is in me than He who is in the world.
Most importantly I am loved, and NOTHING can ever separate me from His love.
So for the last 3 years I have been at Christ for the Nations Institute studying youth ministry and missions. I am so excited for this world race. I am so ready to go and share this amazing love I have found with the world and see God transform lives the way He transformed mine.
