As a young child, my parents were my number one, they were everything to me. Every birthday, holiday, even every moment of happiness, sadness, and hardship were all experienced around both my parents. I loved them and they loved me, yes we did have our challenges, but at the end of the day we were happy and there was nothing in my mind that could ever take something that beautiful away from me. Although I do struggle and wish I had a happy childhood, what matters most is that my family is together, maybe not physically but at heart, and we work together every day to fight challenges that we face.
We lived in a nice house in Tempe, Arizona; the house was big and had many adventures for both my sister and I to explore. We loved it there! My …show more content…
My parents had dug a hole of debt and slowly we were losing everything. We lost our house 2 times, some of our vehicles, and more importantly one another. Though still being a child and yet old enough to know things weren’t good, I kept my siblings close and protected them from the devastation I was going through watching my parents tear our family apart. As time went on, problems got much bigger and scarier, and before I knew it, they were signing papers for a …show more content…
I had a rough day and I felt as though I couldn’t hang on any longer, the pain was too much, I couldn’t keep walking a senseless walk.
“Why am I doing this?’ I would ask myself
“Why is this happening to me, isn’t there any other way?” As I sat in the car waiting to go home all those questions were soon answered by the song called Stronger by Mandisa. Hearing this song was a relief and was sweet and gentle to my ears. I don’t remember ever needing to hear something so desperately in my entire life, and still to this day. It was the type of song that I craved, it fulfilled the hunger that lingered within me, that space was finally all taken away. The song started out by talking about how life is hard and that “if you wonder if things will get better” don’t worry they will, but the verse that took my breath away is;
“When the waves are taking you under
Hold on just a little bit longer
Jesus knows that this is gonna make you stronger,
We lived in a nice house in Tempe, Arizona; the house was big and had many adventures for both my sister and I to explore. We loved it there! My …show more content…
My parents had dug a hole of debt and slowly we were losing everything. We lost our house 2 times, some of our vehicles, and more importantly one another. Though still being a child and yet old enough to know things weren’t good, I kept my siblings close and protected them from the devastation I was going through watching my parents tear our family apart. As time went on, problems got much bigger and scarier, and before I knew it, they were signing papers for a …show more content…
I had a rough day and I felt as though I couldn’t hang on any longer, the pain was too much, I couldn’t keep walking a senseless walk.
“Why am I doing this?’ I would ask myself
“Why is this happening to me, isn’t there any other way?” As I sat in the car waiting to go home all those questions were soon answered by the song called Stronger by Mandisa. Hearing this song was a relief and was sweet and gentle to my ears. I don’t remember ever needing to hear something so desperately in my entire life, and still to this day. It was the type of song that I craved, it fulfilled the hunger that lingered within me, that space was finally all taken away. The song started out by talking about how life is hard and that “if you wonder if things will get better” don’t worry they will, but the verse that took my breath away is;
“When the waves are taking you under
Hold on just a little bit longer
Jesus knows that this is gonna make you stronger,