Thank you!!!!!!

Remember when before the first cloud was formed or the first wave crashed YOU already knew my name and the choices I would make?
Thank you
Remember when you gave courage to a 19 year old girl who pushed me out into the world of unknown and bonded our hearts tightly together?
Thank you
Remember when this frightened 7 year old girl ran far away from the trailer of terrors hoping to avoid the screams, the fists, and the smell of alcohol? You met her 100 yards away on a small hill of rocks and introduced yourself as a friend and comforted the fear.
Thank you
Remember when you showed yourself to me through friends and parents of friends who would welcome me into their homes and shelter me? Some never wanted to let me go and promised me possibilities of a happy future.
Thank you
Remember when on a dark lonely night  this 15 year old saw her mom once again creep in the night up the long winding driveway hoping to find a snoring monster? I was always told to not lock the car doors in case she found danger up the hill. In the silence I saw a flashing light and heard the clicks of locking doors to then suddenly be face to face with a man who literally was ready to kill me but couldn't get in the car.
Thank you
Remember when I was introduced to angels that night?
Thank you
Remember when the million boys I loved never returned the feeling? Now I know your unanswered prayers of true love helped me to not repeat the past of my mom.
Thank you
Remember the first night me and my mom were FREE. We held each other in a 600 square foot mansion and vowed to not return?
Thank you
Remember when I met him through you? He taught me love, truth, laughter, trust, and most importantly about YOU.
Thank you
Remember when the test said positive and I fell to my knees in praise and the first understanding of what I was created for?
Thank you
Remember when I came home with her bundled in my arms while running to hold the nervous toddler who saw this little sister as a threat. I then realized I was complete.
Thank you
Remember when I thought of you as the Father who loved me for the good and I avoided you when I did all the bad? You loved me anyway.
Thank you
Remember when 2000 years ago you were spread out on a cross deep in pain and weeping in sadness? You knew that in order for me to be saved you would need to be murdered.
Thank you
Remember on this day when you showered me with amazing grace, showed me your redeeming love, and whispered to my soul "It is done. I forgave so you can now live."?
Thank you

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he[a] predestined us for adoption to sonship[b] through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, he[c] made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.

 In him we were also chosen,[d] having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory." Ephesians 1:3-14

With endless love,

Kristie