Chalsey's Story
My whole life I was lost. I didn’t know God and I definitely didn’t know myself.I was neglected as a baby and rejected as a child. At a very young age I thought I had to completely change who I was to be accepted and so I lost sight of who I was completely.
I was in a constant battle searching for my identity and tried to fill the gaping hole in my heart. I struggled with food, stealing, most drugs, all eating disorders, rape, overdose, suicide attempt and constant desire… all manifestations of a lost person searching for acceptance and identity.
I didn’t know why I was still living, I had hit rock bottom over and over again, telling myself each time that if I fell any harder I was going to kill myself. I hated myself so much.
But God saved me, over and over again.
He brought me to Mercy and finally I found what I had been searching for my whole life. What my true craving was for. The love I had never felt. The only thing that could fill the hole in my heart. I finally found where I belong. Where my true home is. I didn’t have a real childhood or parenting, but I have a perfect Father who’s always faithful and there for me. I’m His daughter and He has raised me. In Him I found my identity for the first time in my life.
Before Mercy I had a constant voice in my head telling me everyone hated me., the enemy stole my voice for pretty much my whole life and I was trapped with fear every second of my life. But God turned my fear into faith, my hate into love, my lies into truth, my mourning into dancing. He took my chains and showed me how to soar like wings on Eagles. Now I am complete and confident and stand alone for the one who saves!
-Chalsey
