From Riches to Rags and Back Again

“My sophomore year summer I was dating a boy I had been seeing off and on since the 8th grade. I lost my virginity to him and no less than twenty minutes later his aunt came out of his house to tell me he was breaking up with me. The only reason I had slept […]

From Riches to Rags and Back Again

“You have to have a thin figure. You can’t weigh more than this much. If you look this way a guy can never love you. Why would a guy love you if you can’t love yourself? These are the lies that constantly haunted my every day thoughts. These are the thoughts that plagued my life. […]

From Riches to Rags and Back Again

“I grew up with two parents who were addicts. I lived in disgusting apartments, houses, and was always moving. I had an abusive mother. From the time I was 8 I had learned about sex, drugs, and the in-between of both. I was treated more like an adult, than a little kid. I remember trying […]

From Riches to Rags and Back Again

“After one of my friends had recently donated her hair to Locks of Love, I kept having these elusive dreams. In my dream I would wake up and not have any hair, or I would look down at my pillow and I would see large pieces of my hair missing. That’s pretty frightening to a […]

From Riches to Rags and Back Again

“Life overall has become completely complicated. I grew up in a Christian house, with a family who went to church every Sunday. I did everything I thought I needed to, to be a Christian. I went to VBS, Sunday school, church camp, everything you could have imagined. But I was missing something. It wasn’t until […]

From Riches to Rags and Back Again

“The first week of March three years ago was one of the worst times thus far that I’ve had to endure….. My grandpa passed away, I found out that I was rejected for the program I wanted to get into, and my dad found out he needed open heart surgery all in the same week!  […]

From Riches to Rags and Back Again

“I grew up in a household that didn’t believe in God, one that mocked Christians and placed them all in the same stereotype of “I’m mightier than thou.” attitudes. And so, for a long time I didn’t believe either. My family made it sound so pointless to. “If there was a God, why did so […]

From Riches to Rags and Back Again

“Three words changed my life in an instant. “You have cancer.” My dad was sick and up until now we hadn’t known what was wrong. In that moment sitting in an overly air-conditioned hospital room, I felt hopeless. Cancer is one of those things that you are aware of but you don’t realize its power […]

From Riches to Rags and Back Again

“One of the MANY struggles I have as a follower of Christ is self-confidence. Many times I’ve been stuck in positions where I would hold off on making decisions to where I would just ignore them for a long period of time or would just say no and reject opportunities that I KNEW God gave […]

Where Feet May Fail

Good evening beautiful humans. Can we be transparent for a minute? Who has felt a calling on your life? Have you felt a sense like God has these plans for your life? Have you been too afraid of what these may cost you to fully follow these plans? If you answered yes to any or […]