I need a mountain!

Man, I just need a mountain!  WOW how my life has changed.  I am back to being me, busy, involved, connected, loving, kind, happy....me!  How I have longed for this moment and these feelings.  I love people and sharing life with people.  God made me this way.  I look back at the changes and strides I have made over the past year and even in the last 6 months and just sit in awe!  I never thought I could be this way.  I have had so much hurt in my life and never thought that all that hurt could go away, be lifted.  Through God ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.  He has lifted my biggest burdens and taken so much of my hurt away.  I have a forgiving heart and it helps to know that my hurt has turned to healing and that maybe, just maybe my experiences will help someone else.  I am far from perfect, I know there will still be hard moments but for the first time in my life I don't feel that sense of a lost childhood, fear, failure, shame, anger.  I don't feel that constant burden.  I am free from Satan making me feel that way....God, my precious God loves me so much and made me who I am, for his purpose....Just being able to talk about my past and the events that took place....So FREEING!  I just want for EVERYONE to feel this way, so free, so light, so full of hope and love.  So desperate to tell anyone who will listen about this precious God that has loved me all this time while I turned away from him for my own desires.  Oh man, I feel this fire just burning, such happiness and such a desire to praise God!  Yes, I am saying: Praise God for the struggles he let me have so that I could have a story, so that I could maybe help someone, my life is a testament to God.  No One could survive and feel so positive and hopeful and thankful for my past without God.  I walk around humming, singing, smiling, anxious to get back to reading about this amazing God and his Son.  I am FINALLY me again.  I feel like I am becoming the ME God intended me to be.  I have friendships that I have dreamed of having, people that want to invest in me and I want to invest in them!  I want to share life with them and that means share the tears of joy and tears of sadness.  I have learned a deeper love for people and for myself.  I am BEYOND grateful for ECC, the people that brought it here, for the people that make ECC what it is....a safe, comfortable, no weird stuff church for the rest of us....for those that have tried and quit, for those of us that have lost hope, that have healing that NEEDS to happen, for those of us that just need a comfortable place to check out this God thing and for those of us that need a place to grow and serve God so that others can be welcomed into this AMAZING family of God! We are a family at ECC.  A growing family that doesn't shut the doors on people, we take away the road blocks.  I cannot rave enough about this place that has been the lifeline between me and God that I so desperately needed!  So thankful for life and for a God that loves me even though I am far from perfect and full of sin, so grateful for forgiveness and for a God that pursues us passionately!  YEP I JUST NEED A MOUNTAIN!