Lights, Camera, Action...
Back in June, I was approached by my church about making a video that would eventually be shown during church service and then shared through Social Media outlets. There was an upcoming sermon series on "This is Me" and how God changes stories. These videos would be played to support that. I was asked to share my story. A couple of years ago, I made a promise to God that if I were ever asked to share my experience and story, that I would say YES! I owed it to HIM to show how He has made beauty from ashes; how He has taken something like abuse and transformed it into something good...Faith/relationship with HIM. So I said yes. The truth - I didn't want to do it. I had extreme anxiety about it. Even though I blog, a video was different and exposure would be vast. I lost sleep over it. I lost weight over it and I didn't want to be a hypocrite. I was not in a good head space when I filmed it. I spoke all truth in the video but this journey is hard. There's ups and do...