Greetings everyone! My name is Kaitlin. I'm never sure how to start these, so I suppose I'll give a little bit about myself and my personal testimony.
I am twenty years old, will be twenty-one in August. I was agnostic for most of my life, until around the time I turned 19 in 2005. When I graduated, I went through quite a bit of hardship with my mother. During that time I got very close to finding out what real poverty is like, having lived in various motels, driving from town to town and struggling to make ends meet. When we got back to Texas from Georgia after an unsuccessful move, we ultimately ended up losing the house we got after about a year and lived once more in a motel for about a month before finding the apartments we're in now. Throughout this series of unfortunate events, I happened across the books of Narnia. Up to that point I had avoided them like the plague, because at that time I had only bitterness for God and for my life. But I was out of books to read, and something about that rainy afternoon had me softened (I've always loved rain best) and so I took one or two back with me. Within about three months I ate up the rest of them, and felt for the first time God's love on my heart. I was moved by the Narnia books so powerfully as to be overwhelmed, a feeling that's brought me more than once to my knees in wonder since then. I bought my own first bible in November of 2005, read it within five months or so, and from then on have been studying here and there as I have found the time. Being new to Christ and not having a church to call my home, and through the difficulties I was going through, I did not spend much time around other Christians as I first started my faithwalk. It's only recently, now that my life has stabilized, that I've started to develop confidence enough to seek out other Christians, both to learn and to discuss, to rejoice. More and more the old things that kept me no longer hold fascination...the bible is my book of choice, and Christian music is beginning to be all that I listen to. I have the fever, so to speak, and I'm desperately hungry for more. So here I am! Still a babe in Christ, getting ready to start searching for the church that's right for me, and seeking friendship and fellowship.
Questions are welcome! Kaitlin
