I, truthteller86, formally submit the following entry into the
oly: contest.
(admins, please disregard post #14, I was still :sozo2: over
DEVO beating me to the :box: )
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truthteller86's testimony:
I was :baby:into a traditional Catholic :neck: :shadowmd: :skeptic:
lain: . I even attended Catholic
oly: for 12 years. I was quite a :dunce: and often spent time :zakath: around with my :kookoo: friends and then getting:sibbie: by my dad for all the:doh: things I did. My brother and I :box: all the :Cyrus: and since my :shadowmd: passed away when I was 12 :sigh: , I didn't have much I :thumb: influence in my life. My Catholic upbringing basically :singer: me that, "Michael, if you are a really :angel::e4e: , one day when you :dead:, you might go to :cloud9:" Wow, did that put me under a lot of :dizzy: and
. I though my relationship with :king: was solely based on me either listening to:devil: on my left shoulder or :Elaine: on my right. Needless to :sozo:, most of the time I had :idunno::idea: what was :up: or :down: . When I did sin, I went through a huge :shocked: guilt :beanboy: that made me:bang: and feel like I was :grave:. I tried to fill the
in my life with :cheers: ,
arty: , :guitar: , and all sorts of other :nono:. Even though this was no :help: for me, I continued to :hammer:myself and :mario: from the :Brandon: that had been trying to :Slippery: me with a still small voice. I ended up so :aikido: in my own
ureX: I felt like I had no choice but to keep :bannana: to my own :drum:. After several years of :cheers: and
arty: , I was getting really :yawn: of :vomit: all the :Cyrus:, hoping I don't get stopped by the
atrol: and :banned: from
oly: or work. Eventually I hit rock
and I could no longer deal with every :Sotk+Ju: turning into :em:. Thankfully, no matter how :rain: things seemed to be, I never :think: seriously about :Letsargu: myself. I was living in my dorm at
oly: Northeast LA University where my roommate and I shared a suite with two :baby: again Christians. They had been :sozo: to me for a while and even invited me to attend their weekly Bible studies :noid: . I was "much too busy :cheers: and
arty: to waste my :Cyrus:with those :loser:", I :think: to myself. However, even though I was
at the world, I tried not to :mock: them. Then one night, February 17, 1993 to be exact, my :granite: life :WA: forever ! I was borrowing my suitemate's
( back then we only had one to share :chuckle: ) I was:cattyfan: a :wave: CleverDan to an ex-:shadowmd:when suddenly, I found myself drawn into a conversation my Christian suitemates were having. This time I did not :think: what they were :singer: about was just :blabla:. Something stirred deep within my :em:. They did not know much about me, so they asked me if I believed in :king:. I replied,
: :duh:, doesn't everybody believe in :king: ? Even though they were :liberals: their heads, they continued... Do you believe that :king: :dead: on the cross for you and 3 days later rose from the :grave: so that your
could be forgiven and your :em: restored ? All of the sudden, things started to :idea:. I realized at that point, there was only :1Way: to have a :up: relationship with :king:. Perceiving that I was:chew: on what they inquired of me, they asked if I would like to pray with them to accept :king: in my :em: as Lord and Savior. I WAS ready :jump: ...So I :bow: my life before :king: and accepted Him into my :em: and became a :baby: again Christian with a new :tunes: in my heart.
"And the :Elaine:s in Heaven :the_wave: over this one
er who repented ."
I was so:bannana: I wanted to stay up all night and :singer: even though it was about 1:00 AM.
I started going to Church with them and .
oly: about :king: and all the things He has done for me.
13 years later, there is still a new :tunes: in my heart....
I'm :idea: of the :singer: the Apostle Paul :cattyfan: in his 1st CleverDan to the Corinthians:
1 Cor 24-29 Striving for a :king:
24 Do you not :liberals: that those who :luigi: in a :checker: :nascar: all :luigi:, but one receives the :first: ? :luigi:in such a way that you may obtain :first: .
25 And everyone who :box: for the :first: is in all things. Now :zakath: do it to obtain a perishable :king:, but we for an imperishable :king:.
26 Therefore I :luigi: thus: not with . Thus I :box: : not as one who :box:s the :cloud9: .
27 But I :jeffrson:my body and bring it into :bow: , lest, when I have :sozo: to :zakath: , I myself should become :banned: .
That's my
oly:
~TT86