amarillo south.

i have been attending amarillo south church now for about 5 months. i absolutely love calling amarillo south my church home.
i guess for me to blog about church and my relationship with Christ is a huge deal.
i grew up going to church with my grandma and i was a christian... and then at 15, my good friend and son of the pastor died and it was so sad and i was angry and bitter at myself and at the world, but mostly with God(because i was raised to believe our God is loving and i couldn't understand why he would take someone so innocent). after that, i quit attending church, i never flat out said i didn't believe in God but i didn't act like a christian at all. i did drugs, drank, hung out with the wrong people, didn't go to church at all and i lived a hedonistic lifestyle. i was self-pleasing and wrong.
fast forward to 6 months ago....
i had this over-whelming feeling and all these thoughts that my life wasn't working and that i was miserable because i didn't have a Christ- centered life. i kept hearing things and feeling things. well, one saturday night i flipped through the phone pick and randomly picked a church, well, after going one sunday to this church i could tell that it wasn't the right fit for me. two weeks later(another saturday night) i was sitting at my computer and i remembered attending this church down the street for a funeral and i remembered at the time of the funeral that the sermon was perfect and that if i ever decided to go back to church i'd definitely try this church. so, while at my computer i looked up their website and saw their mission statement, " SEEKING THE LOST, SERVING THE LEAST"... i browsed their children's ministries and really liked what i saw. so the following morning we went and it has been a huge blessing to once again call myself a christian(something i don't take lightly), to show my son about Jesus and His word and to belong to such an incredible church family. over the past few months i have joined a life group and i think of them as my second family. they are people cut from the same cloth. a few of them are former drug users and alcohoilcs, they have children and they turned their lives around... just like me.
i thank the Lord every day for my new life and i look back on my life a few years ago and i'm even more thankful that God spared my life and gave me a second chance.