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- Life Change
- How God is bringing change to the emptiness and futility of my life
- From Agnostic to Christian
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- I learned something new to me: Christianity was about "having a relationship with God". I had never heard anything like that before. Before I thought Christianity was about being on your best behavior.
- Away to School
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- I went off to college soaring like a bird without direction.
- Approval
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- Even though I brag about being independent, I am seriously dependent on approval
- Approved
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- How I struggled to find acceptance in the wrong places
- It Blew Me Away
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- Redemption entered into the story when I saw my need for God at that moment and I actually recognized it.
- Finding Real Friends
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- Apparently I put on a good enough show for people to like me and think I was fun, but I was always so guarded that people assumed I didn't want to get to know them
- Angry at God
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- On the outside I would seem very secure and loved but that all changed when I started believing that I am not as cared for as I once thought, that I do not matter to the people around me and their friendship is merely a gesture of obligation.
- Real Life from the Sugar Creek Gang
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- My life was made up of serveral major achievements with no meaning once I got there. What was the point to life?
- Material Devotion
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- I thought I had attained it all, a girlfriend, a sweet car I was building, lots of friends and acceptance to Virginia Tech.
- Love Unlimited for Me Unworthy
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- I remember praying every night before falling asleep, "God, help me to not care about what others think about me and to care more about what you think about me."
- Losing Everything
- There is no greater high point then realizing that you are loved unconditionally and forever.
- Empty Inside
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- From Outsider to Mega-Insider: How God found me and met me in my deep lonliness.
- Prized Posession
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- My struggle for true self image
- Filling the Void
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- Something inside of me sensed that there was only one thing that could fulfill me - one thing to fit the hole in my life, but I tried to fill it with anything.
- Search for Significance
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- Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be at the top of all that I did. I wanted to end life with the most money and the most toys.
- The Great GPA Chase
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- By the end of the year, I had a great GPA, but I had lost all joy that I'd had before. I was bitter, lonely, and depressed.
- Where's the Top of the Ladder?
- From the outside it looked like I had everything, yet I still felt completely alone and lacking significance.
- Out of My Comfort Zone
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- Going away to college was a big adjustment in learning where to find security.
- Freshman Experience
- What God has taught me about Himself my first year of college.
- Finding True Confidence
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- I was so sick and tired of feeling like I had no friends. I wondered if the Jesus I had grown up learning about was really looking out for me.
- The Chair
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- Everything I did seemed to end in tragedy. Nothing I did was good enough for my family or for my friends at school.
- Not Fashion Show Religion
- I was the president of this club, queen of that, captin of this.... In my mind I tried to rationalize my actions thinking, "I am a good person, I do all these good things, God MUST be proud of me."
- Finding Purpose
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- "Being a Good Person" didn't bring me fulfillment. And where could I find true salvation?
- Losing My Life
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- I was a Christ-follower for many years before I understood the upside down logic of my faith.
- Pressure to Perform
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- During my college years, I realized my worth had become wrapped up in my performance and the approval of others—family, friends, even teachers. The most frustrating part of this is that so often it would leave me hollow and empty and wanting more. I realized I was in a pretty constant state of stress and anxiety about my efforts.
- Southern Born Identity
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- My Quest for Identity