Healing Love

Her

My name is Abigail and this is my story, or at least the beginning....

I was shy since I was little my mom says that when I was two years old I had problems making friends , because I was so shy that I've only talk to the teachers. I was the type of girl that you wouldn't see socializing in big groups and that happened mostly because of my past. My parents met when they were teenagers and they got married when they were 18 years old..... and that was a big problem. Some people can get married young because they have a grownups perspective but that wasn't the case with my parents. When they had me everything was normal, but with time my dad suffered from jealousy, because he thought my mom had another man he started hitting her and with time, he started hitting me as well. My dad made me grow in this way that I can socialize with anybody else because I was scared that people would hurt me the same.

So will go to school, not socialize much and practically lock myself in my room. That was for one year. Then my dad started noticing the problem in my behavior, that I wouldn't have any friends and that I would lock myself in my room scared of my own dad. So that hurt him so deeply that he started to change, he had alcohol problems as well so he stop drinking alcohol and with time he stopped hitting me and my mom. My mom forgave him, it took her a little bit of time, but she ended up forgetting him and thy stayed together. At the same time relationship healed, all of this happen when we were not christian.

Then one day I hear church bells, I was walking to my house and it was five in the afternoon, and Friday.I walked into the church and I see this little girl praying.
What are you doing?" I ask her.
Im talking to my Father." She said loking at me with her big blue eyes.
I look at her confused "Who is your dad?" I asked.
"Jesus is my dad." She answered.
I looked confused because I did not know what she was talking about and then I look at the picture she had in her hand of Jesus and then I felt happy looking at that picture.
"Tell me more about this person."
"Well there was this one time he......"
The little girl kept telling me stories about Him and the bible. I looked at that wonderful father figure and i asked the girl"Can he be my father too?"
"Of course." Said the girl smiling. " You just need to let him in your heart."
And that's what I did.
I asked the pastor of that church and that day when I was in ninth grade, exactly 5 years ago I accepted the father figure that I wanted for such a long time.

With my allowance I managed to buy a bible, but I hid it in my room I was kind of scared showing it to my parents. But after his change my dad was really supportive. So I was at school and my mom was cleaning my room and she found the bible.
"What is this?" asked my dad.
"A bible." I answered
" Where did you get it?"
"I bought it with my allowance and i read it every night before bed."
"I only read a little bit an started crying, where can iI hear more about Jesus ?"
"At church."
"How do you know all this?"
"I wasn't at the park every Sunday afternoon..."
"It's ok, let's go to church on Sunday."
Then that Sunday morning and specifically 25 of January my parents accepted God into their lives and that beautiful father figure became the center my family.

After I found my lost father figure I started making more friends because I lose I lost my shyness and the first friend that I made was named Grace she had long curly red hair and big blue eyes and light skin she looked a little like Merida from brave, but I liked it , she looked kind of cute. She was the first friend that I made and it was in art class we started painting and I saw her painting and she asked me if I could give her my opinion, so since that day she has been one of my best friends and she's Christian as well, she has always been my side ever since I can remember. One week later I met Rachael, in volleyball practice. I saw this girl having problems with her volleyball, she had straight blonde hair, blue eyes and was the same height as me, like Grace. I asked her if I could help her with her volleyball and she said yes.

Later she asked me " Are you free later to grab a snack?" so we started talking I found out she's christian as well and ever since that day me, Grace and Rachael always hang out with each other and ever since that day with them I am the most outgoing person ever and I feel happier now, because after Jesus there one of the things that most brings me happiness in life.

Then later in life I graduated from high school and me and my two best friends came to UCLA where I am studying to become a veterinarian , my best friend Grace is studying art and Rachael is studiying social therapy.

The journey was just beginning...