August 8, 2005

A CVC Life Change Story ...

I grew up in a very, very disfunctional home and, as a result, stuffed old emotions and numbed new ones by any means it took. This behavior led to my recent divorce. This loss opened the floodgates of my emotions, but I had no idea how to handle them.

Since I had been restrained from returning to the church which had my husband and I attended for ten years, I had nowhere to turn. A friend told me about CVC and since I'm not real fond of crowds, he warned me that it was a huge church. I walked into CVC in April of this year and haven't missed a Sunday.

Pastor John's teachings are so relevant to my life and have helped me focus on God, not my shortcomings. I now have emotions again, but I have learned how to use spiritual disciplines to keep my emotions from controlling me. On August 5th and 6th I attended a Woman of Faith Conference. I have been to two of these conferences in the past, but I was self-righteous and my emotions were frozen. This time I was open, with a tender heart, and was able to laugh, cry, feel compassion, and yell out like the teen-ager I never was.Thank you to everyone who makes CVC such a loving place to go to.

-- Noel W.