No Looking Back
It doesn’t matter what is behind you as much as it matters who is beside you.” ~ Ellen ~“Laced with Grace“
As I stepped onto the ORU campus for the first time as a freshman, I felt a renewed hope for my life. Though my childhood wasn’t awful, it wasn’t something I looked back on with joyful memories. Many of my memories were of a sad and lonely girl. Yet, I had made it through, accepting Jesus as my Lord and Savior as a teen, and having him guide me through some very tough times.
But in college a new confidence took hold of me my freshman year. I made friends easily and was some what popular. Many times I’d catch myself saying something or socializing and I didn’t recognize the person I had become. I liked the new me and seldom thought about the Gina of my childhood.
At college on my own with Jesus by my side it didn’t matter who I was in the past. No one knew me then. I didn’t have to be that shy, insecure girl anymore. I was free to carve out a new identity. Free to have Jesus walk beside me and hold my hand when old feelings crept up. Free to hide in His arms when I needed to and free to be who God had called me to be!
