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Stacey's Story

After suffering the loss of two sons and a marriage breakdown, Stacey found fulfilment in Jesus

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Stacey's Story

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After suffering the loss of two sons and a marriage breakdown, Stacey found fulfilment in Jesus

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There was no talk of Jesus,

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there was no talk of a God of love.

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Nothing like that at all.

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Just became very regimental

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and I just wasn't being fulfilled.

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Hi I'm Stacey and this is my story.

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Before I became a Christian,

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I would have been very gone type of person.

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I was working from the age of 15

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trying to get along with me exams at school

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but never really any interest there.

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I was brought up in a non-Christian household.

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I lost two boys

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who would be 19 and 18 now.

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I just struggled with grief.

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I was just overwhelmed by the loss

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and I didn't know how to cope with it.

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I was married at the time

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and I put a lot of strain on my marriage.

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Every day was just a struggle.

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I closed myself off from my family

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and my friends

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and just found that I didn't know where to turn,

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I didn't have the answers to those 'why' questions.

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Why did this happen to me?

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What did I do wrong?

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Was there a way I could fix it?

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And Jehovah's Witnesses just happened to call on my door

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and they quoted a scripture from Revelation 21,

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three and four

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which said there would be no more pain and suffering

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in the world, so from that I went

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to study with them three nights a week

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and started going to all the meetings.

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Was baptised but my heart just wasn't in that.

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I just felt that there was no talk of Jesus,

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there was no talk of a God of love,

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nothing like that at all.

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Just became very regimental

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and I just wasn't being fulfilled.

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I decided to leave after an amount of time being there

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and I took a job, Moms and Tots in a local church

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and started to attend a meeting there.

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After three or four meetings,

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then I felt that I did have a presence of somebody

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who loved me, who wanted to know me

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and I became a Christian then

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through a talk that a guy had given there.

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Now I'm a more confident person,

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I'm happy, I feel loved,

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I feel forgiven.

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I wasn't the failure that I thought I was.

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I've found my identity in Jesus now

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and I've two girls that I just am totally blessed to have.

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