"No matter who you are, God has created you for a special purpose and you need to find the special calling that God has for you." -The Matthew Needham Story

Let me ask you, do you know your calling?

Honestly, I don't remember the exact age I felt God's presence for the first time. I know I was young and it was in Omaha at the Westside Church. Nick Vujicic was there giving his testimony. The church was filled to the brim, there must have been 1,000 people. If you don't know anything about Nick, he was born with no limbs. To put it short and simple. His whole story can be found at Life Without Limbs.

Anyway, I was a little girl sitting there with my mom. Guilt was consuming me from the inside out, I had done something terribly wrong. I knew it. Mom knew it. Nick didn't know it, he kept telling us his whole life story. At the end he asked if anyone wanted to come down to the stage to ask for forgiveness and accept God into their hearts with him and the preacher. The whole night I felt like I was on a cloud. My mind was fuzzy and my heart was attached to a string.

The string tugged at my heart to go down, and with some encouragement from mom, I did. I bent down to kneel next to people I didn't know. Grown men where sobbing. Women were shaken. I was the only little girl. Nick wobbled over to me and he never said it but I knew what he was thinking, why is she here I felt like he was speaking to only me when he prayed.

Nick says, “If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!” I've kinda started my "new life" like this quote. I have a lot of heart, and surely that's enough to make a difference. Has this walk with Christ been easy? Definitely not. I've taken the path more traveled. Is it worth it? Can I get an Amen. Anything worth gaining in life is worth a struggle. Someday I'll stand before God and answer to my sins, but in that same day I'll be entering Heaven. Because I accepted Jesus Christ in my heart, I'll never struggle again.

So, do you know your calling? Honestly, I struggled between my true love of horses and a job that made more sense to others as a career. I understand now that my love for horses is fueled by God. I no longer worry if this will work out, me and the horses. I just believe and wouldn't you know it. Everything with the horses and my dreams seem to be falling together. I just have to keep believing. I have to keep the Faith

This Christmas let us not forget the true meaning. Jesus died for my soul and for yours as well. Have a blessed Christmas! Remember it's never too late to ask for forgiveness, no matter your sins.