I did not always go to church. Growing up I remember going to church with my grandparents some Sundays and on Christmas and Easter. My parents did not make it public if they followed the Lord or not. It seemed like they did by their love and how they showed it to me. I assumed they knew Him. I was always with my family and would choose family over friends. I guess that’s what I still do today… :/
I am adopted and found out when I was in 2nd grade… I found my birth certificate, it never bothered me that I was adopted. It bothered my biological mother. She came to find me when I was a junior… it was strange and I didn’t think I looked like her. We kept in contact and she came to my graduation and then I stayed with her and her husband the summer after I graduated. I visited Dallas Christian College with her and then started my freshman year that August! I knew I wanted to attend a Christian college and wanted to leave Houston. I was accepted and made the Volleyball team. I met my amazing husband the day I arrived at DCC and we dated for 3 years, were engaged for 1 , and we married after I graduated from college in 2008.
I never got in trouble much. I remember getting like 2 spankings my whole life. I got in trouble for stealing, lying, and doing inappropriate things. This was off and on though. I finally realized when I was a freshman in HS that I needed to change my ways and change my group of friends. I started going to church on Wednesdays and Sundays regularly. My mom would just drop me off and pick me up every time. I attended church camps in the summer and helped with VBS. My sophomore year I got really involved in younglife . I helped out and went to Polar Bear Weekend, Frontier, Wilderness, and then served on Work Crew the summer after my Junior year, then then after my Senior year I went to Canada on the Summer staff!
I played almost every sport in HS and really didn’t stick to one crowd of friends. I continued to go to church, play sports, and hang out with my family a lot. I did go to parties but knew my life needed to have Christ be number one in it! I gave my life to the Lord my freshman year in HS and was baptized that year. I don’t remember my parents being there, :/
My junior year my dad was diagnosed with throat cancer and his voice box was removed. That was the same year I met my biological mother! It was a scary year!
I never once tried to find my biological dad. That was until Teri, my bio. mom died on Halloween in 2013. I attended the funeral and most of friends started to talk about this Tommy guy.. I was curious to know if he knew about me. It turned out he did not know about me and then we met last year! It was really cool how God worked out all of the details of my adoption and I got to see and have a relationship with both of my biological parents!
Attending a Christian College really helped my relationship with Christ grow. When I am constantly in the word and around other believers it’s really powerful.
God has blessed Jerod and I with 2 beautiful children. We got pregnant with Oakland 6 months after we were married. Once he was born he had some type of infection and needed to stay in the NICU for 7 days. He had numerous IV’s in him, a spinal tap, and they put a ton of antibiotics in tiny body. Praise God he was okay and got to come home a week later.
We thought have our 2nd child would be a breeze, but it was actually harder than we thought. I never knew I couldn’t ovulate and finally was put on Clomid. I got pregnant after being on the pill for 3 months!!!! WOOHOO!! Then the unthinkable happened… I lost the baby when I was 5 weeks along. I was heartbroken but felt so much peace knowing God could give me a child! My faith in the Lord DEFINITELY got my through my miscarriage. I continued on the pill and got pregnant with Ainsley a few months later!!!!!!!!
My life has been all over the place but ONE thing was constant, Christ never gave up on me in the midst of whatever trial I was going through. I am so thankful for His love and His sacrifice on the cross!!!!! Thanks for reading my looooong story 🙂
Great post! I love reading stories and testimonies of others and how their relationship with God continues to grow regardless of the struggles they are going through! It is amazing that you were able to meet your biological parents and that they were good people! It is hard to reconnect a family that is broken and it's great that God was there for all of you! Your family is adorable, thanks for sharing!!!
This is a beautiful story! Amazing the ways the Lord can work in people if they only let Him.
I love this post! So honest and very true how God, in the midst of everything, is right there with you 😉 Thank you for sharing your sweet testimony!
Thanks for sharing such an honest and personal story, it' very sweet
This is a wonderful story! I love that you are so honest and open in sharing your story 🙂
What a powerful story. I would love to hear more about the times you met your biological parents and what that was like and what that meant and still means to you. You have gone through so much. I am sure this little synopsis is just a tiny spec of all that you really went through. I am so glad the Lord had his hand on you all along!
Beautiful story. So many ups and downs but the path that was meant to be found a way. Such a gorgeous family 🙂
I loved this post! thank you for sharing your testimony of our Savior!
Such a beautiful story. I love that your faith guided you throughout the experience and your relationship with Him remained strong!
Wow Brittany, what a beautiful and amazing story! It brings me even closer to you knowing so much more personal details about your beautiful self! Thanks for sharing! I love to see how your Faith has grown over the years, especially in the most difficult times. You are an amazing person and friend and we are so very blessed to have you in our lives! Love, Nathalie C.