Our Testimonies
– Josh’s Testimony
I was baptized Catholic but did not grow up knowing God. When I look back to our wedding day, it was then that I started to notice God nudging me. Josh and I were secluded with our wedding photographer right after we said our vows in the backyard I grew up in. A giant yellow butterfly landed on my bouquet. I’ve never encountered this before in all the years I played outside in our backyard. I knew it was from someone, but I didn’t yet realize who. One month later, Josh asked me to go to church with him. That Sunday we invited God into our lives and never looked back.
Countless times I have prayed or asked God for a sign, and He has sent a yellow butterfly my way in many different forms. As I sit here writing this, a yellow butterfly landed on my clothesline that I can see out the window…
My children are proof that He answers prayers. I struggled with infertility for over a year. I was on fertility treatments at the time and about to start another round. I was at Women’s Bible Study and the Pastor’s Wife said she felt like there was prayer needed tonight amongst some of us women. She went around the room asking us to share our burdens.
Having never done so before, I poured out my heart. I remember crying saying it was okay if I wasn’t going to be a mom right now, but I just wanted the assurance that I would be a mother someday. That room full of women wrapped me in prayer that night. And someday was that month, I was finally pregnant with our first child. As I write this, I sit here rocking our fourth child back to sleep.
My life still has ups and downs but there is peace when living life with its Creator. My change took time like slow roasting a chunk of meat. It takes time to get that good flavor but over time I have become a better woman with God. I would rather live my life with God in it than without Him.
“When I say I am Christian, I am not saying that I am a “perfect church girl” I’m honestly just a broken mess who found Jesus. Anything good in me, is God. And anything broken in me, God is actively working on.”
-Destiny’s Testimony