Amanda’s Story
My Story
by Amanda Grogan
Newlywed, Believer, Chi Alpha Ministries: NSU University
Today has been one of those days where I have done a lot of talking to my father in heaven in addition to those around me.
I am a firm believer that absolutely nothing happens in God’s world by mistake. So why is that every time something happens, the human part of me stops to think why is this happening?
Eventually, I realize that things occur because nothing happens in God’s world by mistake. So where am I going with this? Well, I believe that many years ago, my heavenly father began to write a story on the tablet of my heart. Throughout the course of my life, I have faced many obstacles. Some worse than others, some self-imposed, and some well…who knows but regardless, these obstacles have become a huge part of the woman I have become today.
Maybe it started when was a child and lived in a really disfunctional family that finally resulted in my parent’s divorce, losing loved ones in my life to death and/or distance, or maybe just the trials of everyday life, but I believe that the never-ending theme throughout my story is the idea of overcoming.
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When things don’t go the way we hope
My mom is sick. We received the call last Thursday and I rushed to the hospital. (more…)
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Gloria’s Story - II
Gloria’s story continues from yesterday. If you would like to share your story, send an e-mail to Suzie.
Gloria’s story - Part II
After trying so hard to be good and trouble free for my mother I rebelled after I graduated from high school.
I had enlisted in the United States Air Force and was due to go in November. I had a few months to kill. I got a summer job and ‘met a guy’.
How quickly I forgot about my ambitions in life. When it was time for me to go into boot camp for the Air Force I was ready to make a hasty decision to marry this man. (more…)
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Gloria’s Story
I was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. I was born the second of twin girls. My parents were both full blood Sioux Indians. My father was from the Oglala Sioux Nation and my mother a Rosebud Sioux.
Up in those parts even though each is a band of the Sioux Tribe, some of the people don’t get along. So my parents relationship was like that of the Montague and Capulet’s in Shakespear’s Romeo and Juliet. None of the women in my father’s family could tolerate my fathers love for my mother. Not only was she beautiful; she was a ‘Rosebud’.
And to my mother’s parents my father was never good enough for her. Much of that had to do with the fact that my mother’s father was a minister. And my father came from a family that was known for their ferocity and willingness to fight… (more…)
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The Message
February 26, 2008 | faith
A group of teens showed up at my door one day. I was 14. I wish I knew where they were today.
I owe them an apology. . .
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