Personal Narrative: My Childhood And Divorce

My childhood seemed normal when I was a young adolescent. I played outside all the time, doing normal kid stuff, such as: digging worms from the mud after a rainstorm, playing “house” with my sisters, and watching cartoons. That wasn’t a constant for long, as my parents divorced when I was in first grade. The divorce made things hard on everybody for a long time. Eventually, my dad moved to Idaho from Montana after the split to live close to his family. The years after the divorce, my life consisted of being driven back and forth between my parents, calling my dad all the time, and dealing with the many boyfriends my mother went through. My childhood from normal to chaotic in a short amount of time. During the time I was living with my mom, my family was going through financial hardships, being in a single-parent household with five kids. My mom’s boyfriends never helped with us kids, but on occasion would take us out fishing, hiking, or out to eat. Those were the best times, but it was rarely like that. My mom got into a dark place, forcing me to make the decision to move in with my dad right after my fourth grade year. The summer I moved in with my dad, he had a new girlfriend, which he made his wife not too long later. None of us knew God and rarely had enountered people that did. Eventually, that …show more content…
I had a difficult time coming to that. I was bitter towards God for a long time, thinking, “God, why would you let bad things happen to good people?” The reason was given to me in church and Bible study, where I heard accounts of many men and women who went through hard times and with faith in God, they came out stronger, closer to the Lord. I knew that I wanted that in my life and in my soul. Through prayer and talking with others, God gave me peace about my past and I am free of