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"I Have Been Truly Awakened"
Karen K. - Cleveland, OH 2010

Hello! Well, this was my first Bill Glass event. I was one of the drivers for the platform speakers and even though I did not get any names I feel, as most of us do, God had a different plan for ME. You see I am a very reserved person, I speak when spoken to and I NEVER speak about my feelings. So, for me to walk up to a perfect stranger and explain my relationship with our heavenly father, well, is way outside of my norm. So going to a prison and talking to the inmates and asking if they know they are going to heaven when they die and if they say no, tell them how they can. I just did not know what that even meant. HOW to do this, WHAT to say, WHERE to begin.
 
So, as I stated in the start of all this, God had a different path for me. He was molding me, showing me WHAT is meant by "your testimony", HOW to spread his word. How to be a strong warrior of God!! How not to be one of those "bible thumping" Christians. This is what I thought we would be doing, in a sense.

I never could understand why anyone wanted to hear my testimony. What was my testimony?? Now, after this amazing journey into the prisons and with the fellowship of good Christians I can see a little more clearly what my path is. How I can express MY relationship with our Lord. What some of my testimonies are. I always would say "I can’t hear God's voice!!!" That upset me, I thought I was not good enough for him, that with all I've done.....I reached the invisible limit we as humans set for ourselves. Then God said "Ok, Karen. I've watched you your whole life. I've seen ALL you've done and well, frankly, there are "better" people out there I want to save. So, whatever with you." Now, of course that is not what God has said, nor would he EVER say that. But it is how I felt. This weekend showed me in a way that only I could see it. I AM worthy, I AM his daughter and he DOES love me no matter what I've done, said or felt. He forgives me for my sins of the past, present and future!!!

I have been truly awakened by this all. I will be doing this again. As long as it is God's will, I will obey!!! Thank you Bill Glass for such an amazing event. Thank you to all the wonderful people who I met and uplifted me when they could see how nervous I was. Thank you to Anthony D. for his unending support and love day in and  day out, to Jeff and Steph A. for seeing in me what I could never see, Emille for her inspiration throughout the whole weekend and to soooo many more that I just cannot list all of you. Thank you for your strength, prayers and love to all!!! But most of all Thank you Lord for hearing my cries and teaching me in your gentle loving way. Thank you!!!!

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