Victoria

Adopted at 12 months old, to parents who were more disfunctional then most. My father was a career drug addict and my mom would tell me how much she didn’t like me. My father did love me till I was about 7 then he delved more and more into his drug cocoon to escape the wife he did not love. There was alot of emotional, mental and physical abuse. They adopted another child a boy and a year later she gave birth to a boy.At 12 I was taken away and put in a foster home, at 13 I ran away and lived on the streets of Oceanside California, where at 13 I was raped by 7 men, became a drug addict and drank whenever posible. At 16 I tried to commit suicide, then got married to get off the streets went to Maine. Unfortunatly he was an abusive madman, so again I ran away.At 19 I was strangled and left for dead, at 20 I was locked up in the house of a drug dealer who striped me of any self esteem I ever had......I wanted to die........... at 22 I ran off with a man and found myself in Washingon I had tried "white Magic, Buddism, and Johovah Witness. In Washington I met a man named John, who like me was just as lost, but boy was he the most handsome man I ever met.At the age of 23 I hated the life I was living and I knew there had to be more to this life! So John and I set out with nothing but the clothes on our backs...We bid farewell to the lies, the drugs, the pit of emptyness that we lived in, and we had a plan we were going to hitch hike to california then to New York and start a new life............Well we made our way to a lil town in Northern California by Redding, and while waiting for our next ride we noticed an elderly couple sitting in a car marked "Caution Wide Load" we thought nothing of it. The old man got out of the car came over to us and asked us if we knew Jesus. I told him "I’m cool with Jesus" and John said "I’m mad at God for letting my father die in my arms." He told us God loves us, the old man introduced himself as Russle McConnel and his wife he told us was named Carol. We told him our story and our plan, he asked us to come to his house for a homemade meal before we leave this place (John wanted to visit his Grandpa that was not to far from where we were at) We told him we may do that. Russle gave us some money to eat so we went to the dinner near by ate and caught a ride.Things did not go well with Johns grandpa. so we slept under a bridge and the next day decided to call Russle and Carole, they took us in and fed us, they shared the gospel with us and that night we went to church with them. I was so into what I heard like my heart was drinking in all that was said, but John was not comfortable he walked out and I noticed that 3 of 4 men about our age went out of the church. later I found out they talked to John and prayed with him. The next thing I knew both John and I were kneeling and asking God to forgive us of our sins and to accept us as His own. I totally beleived that Jesus was who they said He was.Two days later John and I were married and then we were baptised. We were like little sponges soaking up Gods word. Three months later Johns broncholure tube colasped and he went into cardiac arrest, John was 23 years old. He was rushed to the hospital were he was doa, but they revived him and he was on life support he laid for 3 days. On the third day they stopped the machine and I watched him die for the last time, as he breathed his last, a peace flooded me and I knew he was in the arms of the Savior. Later I spoke to Russel and we looked back on everything and saw Gods hand everwhere, Russel told me that the day he met us he was called out for a load so thats why he was there, but the laod never showed up, and the night before he heard the Pastor preach on reaching out to strangers.......I am a child of the Living God washed clean by the shed blood of Jesus and set apart. God is so amazing and He loved me before I ever knew Him...............He loves you too! My story is still being written, But guess what? it has a happy ending!!!! Christian Myspace Layouts - Salvation MySpace Layouts Christian Myspace Layouts