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Hello and God Bless YOU all! My name is Sharon Lewis. I am 43yrs young... soon to be 44. I was a really troubled teen which led to me being a REALLY TROUBLED adult! I have dabbled in some of Everything from withcraft, drugs, alcohol for entertainment (and running away from home) to being a hard core crack head who sold my body on the streets to support my hopeless lifestyle... I never expected 'or' even wanted to live. I tried to commit suicide several times and became a cutter. Praise the Lord, I am delivered from ALL of that today. NO. I did NOT grow up in any church. Quite the contrary... but I AM a JESUS FREAK TODAY! If u had been where I have been to end up where I am today... u would unquestionablely KNOW WHY!!! I want to write a book. Still working on that! LOL... I am by no means nothing special 'or' anything great. Just a person who is always in need of much grace, just like everyone else! I can be a little rough around the edges sometimes... but I have a heart of gold when it comes to caring about other peoples hurts. I too have hurt MUCH! I lost 4 children in my addiction. My 3 boys were adopted and my daughter is in heaven. I do have a REALLY soft spot for hurting people! Pain is a familiar word to me. Tormented. Despair. Hopelessness. But the Lord has changed all that for me today... and it does not mean that everything is perfect. Only that I know it will be ok beause The ONE Who has Always been carrying me is always with me. His Name is Truly Above ALL NAMES! If it were not for HIM I could not have ever forgiven myself! I could not have forgiven others. I would not want to be clean nor would I want to live! YES. I still have many difficult things to walk through and no it is NOT easy facing this huge mess I made out of my life... but I do know it is worth it! HE makes it worth it! I have seen HIM LOVE ME when I am unlovable... when I didn't want to love or be loved! Today, I am in the process of learning how to love HIS way cuz HIS way is always the best! He doesn't make laws and rules because He is controlling or doesn't want us to have fun... it is because He Loves us and wants to protect us the same way a parent makes rules to protect it's child. Spiritual laws are much like gravity... only the conquences of reaping and sowing take longer, the conquences still the same. Most of the relationships I had with men were abusive and that is what happened to my daughter. I was beat up pretty bad when I was pregnant with her and that caused her to be born with severe brain damage and uncontrollable seizures... I was also raped many times as a young teen by different people and believe I was molested when younger... I don't remember it but I do remember not being a virgin the first time... if you too are out there and hurting, be encouraged! God gives us beauty for ashes, strength for fear, gladness for mourning and peace for despair! HE hears the cries of your heart! He cries with you and bottles up all your tears! He loves you just as you are. Please, please don't believe the lie that says you have to clean yourself up to come to HIM cuz He says, " Come as you are!" Be honest with HIM! I have prayed many times, "Lord, there is this area of my life that I don't want to change but please help to want to want to change!" HE WILL!!! If you don't believe He is real, that's ok too! Just tell HIM you aren't sure He is real and YOU want to KNOW if HE is real! Was He really born of a virgin? Did HE really die and rise again? Is heaven and hell real? He answered me! I KNOW He will answer YOU TOO!!!! Many blessings to each and every person who reads this... if you know someone or love someone who's life seems hopeless, please don't stop praying for them! The battle is won in the spirit and can take time... keep believing for their salvation, nothing is too hard for God and no one is truely hopeless... hear my heart, it doesn't mean that we are the one's who are to fix them, it is about praying and letting go... trusting The One Who can and does Love like we never can...


THE Weaver

My live is but a weaving
Between my Lord and me,
I cannot choose the colors
He worketh steadily.

Often times He weaveth sorrow,
And I in foolish pride
Forget He sees the upper
And I, the underside.

Not till the loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly
Shall God unroll the canvas
And explain the reason why.

The dark threads are as needful
In the Weaver's skillful Hand
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern He has planned.
Author Unknown


Malachi 3:3 says:
"He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver."

This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God.

One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study.

That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining Silver.

As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities.

The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says: "He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver." She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined.

The man answered yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.

The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?"

He smiled at her and answered, "Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it."

If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you.