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“The God I Was Afraid Of and the One Who Found Me”

September 18th, 2026

📖 Sacred Testimony II

“The God I Was Afraid of and the One Who Found Me”
offered to every soul who grew up scared of the very love they needed most

I was born into a house where God was everywhere—
in the paintings, in the preacher’s voice on TV,
in the heavy silence after a sin,
in the way people looked at you if you said the wrong thing.

But He didn’t feel like love to me.
He felt like anger.

My brother, different in the way God made him,
used to look at me with serious eyes and say,
“If you don’t repent, you’ll go to hell.”

And sometimes I was mean to him.
Not because I didn’t love him,
but because I didn’t understand him.
Because I didn’t understand myself.

And guilt sat in my chest like a stone.

My grandmother watched fire-and-brimstone preachers
who screamed more than they smiled.
They talked of wrath, not grace.
Punishment, not peace.
It felt like God had already made up His mind about me.

I didn’t want that God.
Not that angry, watching, judging voice.
So I stayed away. From them. From church.
From the family I thought I had to be perfect around.

Vacation Bible School felt no different.
Even among songs and crafts, I didn’t fit.
I felt like an outsider in a place that was supposed to be about love.

So I hid.

I learned to smile and stay quiet,
but inside, I was full of questions no one was answering.
Was I bad?
Was I beyond saving?
Was God ever going to love a girl like me?

Yes. Let us now continue this sacred testimony—where the lie of fear gives way to the truth of love. Where the God of wrath gives way to the God who waited quietly within you, never raising His voice.

But the story didn’t end there.

Years passed.
Wounds deepened.
Shame became a second skin.

I carried the voice of that angry God long after I left the room.
I heard Him in my own head—
every time I stumbled, every time I fell short,
every time I remembered how I had treated my brother.

But something unexpected happened
when I finally ran out of strength.

It didn’t come from a preacher.
It didn’t come from a Bible verse shouted over the pulpit.
It came from stillness.
From the long quiet of hitting bottom.
From the sacred rooms of recovery
where people told the truth—
even the parts they were most ashamed of.

There, I began to hear a different voice.

This God didn’t yell.
This God didn’t shame.
This God sat with me
when I couldn’t lift my head.

This God didn’t say “repent or burn”—
He whispered, “Come home.”

This God looked at the girl
who had made mistakes,
who had hurt people out of her own pain,
who had believed she was unworthy—
and said, “You are still mine.”

It took time.

Time to forgive myself.
Time to see that what I had called God
was really people’s fear dressed up as holiness.
Time to look at my brother with different eyes—
not as someone I failed,
but someone whose presence cracked open my pride.

Time to realize that the God I’d been afraid of
was never the true one at all.

🌿 Now I Know:

God is not angry at me.
God is not watching for my mistakes.
God is not looking for a reason to shut the gates of heaven.

God is mercy.
God is the arms I collapsed into
when I had nothing left to hide behind.

God is the one who waited
through every silent tear,
through every lie I believed,
until I finally said,
“If you are real—show me who you really are.”

And He did.

✨ A Blessing for the One Who Feared God

May you be set free
from the angry voices that never came from Love.

May you unlearn every lie
that made you think you had to be perfect to be wanted.

May the shame you’ve carried like a cross
fall away in the presence of mercy.

May you look into the eyes of the True God—
the quiet One, the patient One,
who never once turned His face from you.

May the harm done in religion’s name
be gently healed
by the real and tender Spirit
who has been with you all along.

And may you know this without doubt:

You are loved.
You are welcome.
You are already home.
“She Who Was Once Afraid to Speak”

September 18th, 2026

📖 Sacred Testimony I

“She Who Was Once Afraid to Speak”
offered to every soul who has ever watched from the edge, unseen

I was the quiet one.
Not because I didn’t have a voice,
but because I was too afraid of what might happen if I used it.

As a child, I never felt like I belonged.
Not in my family, not in school, not even in church—
and not with the ones who called me friend.

I became a shadow, learning how to fit into rooms
by shrinking myself to the size of someone else’s expectations.
I followed their lead, wore their masks,
and swallowed the words I truly wanted to say.

I didn’t know it at the time,
but I was afraid of being seen.
Afraid that if anyone really knew what I was feeling,
they wouldn’t love me.
They’d leave. Or worse, laugh.

So, I gave them the version of me that they wanted.
The quiet girl. The agreeable one.
The helper. The don’t-make-waves girl.
I nodded, even when I didn’t agree.
I smiled, even when my heart was aching.

Inside, I was screaming.
But only I could hear it.

And yet—somewhere in that silence,
I began to hear everything.
I noticed what others missed.
I listened deeply.
I paid attention to people’s faces, their words, their pain.
And something in me began to gather—truth,
from the cracks.

What felt like loneliness
was turning into sacred vision.

What felt like not belonging
was slowly becoming the ability to hold space for others who felt the same.

What felt like silence
was becoming a sanctuary.

This is my testimony:
I may not have fit in back then—
but I was never broken.
I was becoming.

Now I speak, not to fit in—
but to reach out
to the ones still hiding,
still afraid to be seen.

I see you.
You’re not alone anymore.

✨ A Blessing for the One Who Never Felt They Belonged

May you know now,
with every breath you take,
that you were never a mistake.

May the parts of you that once felt too quiet,
too strange, too soft, too deep—
be honored as holy.

May the silence you lived through
become the soil where your voice grows strong.

May every room that once made you feel invisible
become the doorway where your truth now enters, radiant and unafraid.

May you trust that your path—though lonely at times—
has carved in you a wisdom that this world needs.

And may you never again shrink to fit.
May you rise in your fullness,
and know this:

You belong.
You always did.
You are a light for others now.

And your voice—your sacred voice—
is a healing sound.
Dear Little Me,

September 18th, 2026

I know now that you never felt like you belonged—not at the dinner table, not in the classroom, not at Sunday school, and not even on the playground. You looked around and tried to copy what you saw, just to keep up, just to be liked. But inside, you were always hiding. Afraid that if someone saw the real you, they’d walk away… or laugh.

You were a follower. Not because you didn’t have thoughts of your own, but because you didn’t feel safe speaking them. You were scared of being judged, being wrong, or being told you were too much, or not enough.

So you watched. You stayed quiet. You said yes when you meant no. You smiled when your heart was hurting. You became what others wanted, just to survive.

But even then—you were learning. You were listening. You were catching the things no one else saw. You were becoming the soul you are now.

And I see you. I hear you. I’m proud of you for surviving. And I promise: we won’t hide anymore.

Tag: Fear to Speak

“The God I Was Afraid Of and the One Who Found Me”

“She Who Was Once Afraid to Speak”

Dear Little Me,