Accepted by God
Andy LaFerme

Ever since I could remember I aways wanted to be part of something. Somewhere I would be accepted and loved. My parents and friends gave me this, but as I grew older it seemed that wasn't enough.

By my late teens and onwards I continued to live to be part of something, somewhere I would be accepted and loved. Finding this in friends, music, clubs, pubs, drink and the social norm, I could go on and more fast cars, money, sex etc.. I did all this, but still it seemed that wasn't enough, there was something missing, that was me! I was missing.

I didn't know who or what I was, my identity. Then being invited by a friend to attend church with him, I decided to go, being warmly welcome there, I went with questions and doubts, I listened to the message that was proclaimed. Could the answer be so simple? Leaving the church left me thinking, pondering on things inside of me. After two more attendances I decided if all this was true, I would take a step in my life and go for it. I accepted God into my life. Finding peace in what I did, I soon realised that I had found myself. I knew who I was and where I was going. I became part of something, something big and wonderful. I had found true acceptance and true love in God.