Jerrie
Samaritan Women Testimony
I loved everything about high school, my friends, and our
place in school, the fun and the drama. It all seemed to be leading to a
wonderful exciting life.
I can’t say I had great aspirations. I just wanted to be a wife and mother. I
obediently went to college even though I had no desire for a career once I
finished. A MRS degree we all kidded.
But I was now 28 and I finally had to admit my life was a mess. No college
degree, no marriage, no kids, and my lifestyle and drinking were getting worse.
The revisions I had started to make……well maybe I won’t have kids……and maybe I
won’t marry….should have shocked me into action. The reverse was true.
A few months earlier my brother had told me he had accepted Jesus into his
heart. All I could do was internally groan, “Oh no, another grandma”, she being
my maternal grandmother whose religion seemed to repulse just about everyone.
I too had felt spiritual stirrings. I even told a friend I was being drawn
toward something, assuming it was connected to the eastern religions I had been
investigating, but nothing happened.
I was out of ideas…. and hope. I concluded that my bad choices were irreversible
and the only logical solution was to end my life. I just didn’t know when. The
opportunity came when a friend and I experimented with a drug that brought such
darkness and terror and that felt like it would never stop.
A boyfriend, who much to my discomfort had also become a Christian, intercepted
me. As he talked about what it would mean to be a Christian and his miraculous
answers to every question and doubt I could formulate, I settled down. I could
definitely see the need for Jesus to take over my life but there was no way He
would want me. Showing me scripture after scripture, I could finally see it
wasn’t my goodness that qualified me. He accepted me just as I was so I accepted
Him.
I married the friend who led me to the Lord. We moved to Dallas. He went to
seminary. I stayed home with three daughters. We started a church, then a
counseling center and then we divorced.
As the weekend House Manager at the TLC Home, I have seen the Lord do mighty
things in the lives of residents and they have been done in a very short time.
It is amazing what He can do when we are willing and obedient. My experience
wasn’t quite like that. I was not consistent and the landscape was too often
hills or valleys.
I have the greatest job. 2 Corinthians speaks of God comforting us so we can
comfort others with that same comfort. I get to do that. Whatever I have been
through is not wasted. I see strengths in the women that they don’t see yet and
I am patient when they are not. What a blessing to be a part of the healing of
hearts.
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