It is well with my soul

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Welcome to my first blog post!

For a long time God has been speaking to me telling me to start this blog. Of course it took me around three months to actually start writing this blog. Stubbornness at its finest. But hey, here I am writing to all you fine people. Before I dive in deep, I want to give you all a small background into me and me finding my God me. You feel me? Or should I say the God me. I did not grow up in a Christian home. Funny story, my mother was raised Southern Baptist and my father Jewish. It works people… you don’t have to have the same background to love another person. You just have to be open minded and LOVE unconditionally. While my parents were raised religious they did not stay religious and told me I could choose any faith I wanted and they would always have my back. They were not kidding about that. Through every stepping stone I hit in my relationship with God, my parents were my biggest cheerleaders. I first went to church in college. It took a long time for me to let God break that barrier. The moment I realized how much I needed him, I finally felt happy. I know that sounds weird but I was always looking for a meaning in life and wondering what the point of everything was. I was sad all the time and just unhappy. God saved my soul from being trapped in a castle and locked away up high for me to only look out at the dragon that was forever guarding me. That horrible dragon that was not letting me free was depression and sadness. Now, I’m not saying some days I don’t get sad. I’m saying that I can lean on God and let him help me through the sadness. After I graduated from college, I joined a bible study that changed the God me. Showing me a side of God that I didn’t even know. It felt like going from dating someone to being ONE with someone. In a sense I asked God to marry me and y’all he said yes! I was at a super low point in my life after graduating college. During that time God brought me the bible study. Those girls and that bible study kept me strong in my relationship with God. They didn’t let me take a break from from dating God. For that I’m so thankful. Those are the friends I found you need to have. No judgment, but loving and real. What I like to call “God friends” who helped me be the God me that I am today. At the bottom of this post you can see a picture from the day that I gave myself to the Lord. The day we got married. The day I said thank you forever to Jesus for his sacrifice he made on the cross. My entire family (keep in mind not one of them practices Christianity) made it to Memphis to witness me go public and spend my life forever loving God. There were many tears and just love, lots and lots of love. Since that magical day I can’t say my journey with God has been easy. Things have changed and I have moved mined, body, and soul. I still love him. More and more everyday, but it’s a relationship I have to work at. I’m not going to lie to y’all I thought after getting baptized that maybe I wouldn’t have to work so hard on this relationship. Boy was I wrong. But it’s with work that I find true happiness everyday. It’s how I stay positive and again how I love so much more than I did before I was the God me. I hope you continue to read this blog. I travel every week for work so, I promise you I have some grand stories to share. I want to leave you with thinking about trying to stay positive and reaching out to one person you know needs some love. Tell them God loves them. You love them. The world loves them. Be the love this world needs.

I LOVE YOU ALL,

Drew

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“And do not forget to do good and to share with others.”

-Hebrews 13:16