Our move across the country is layered with so many different memories and emotions. This is one part of that…
2011. I now live in Nashville, TN.
1990. I lived in Knoxville, TN.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the difference 20+ years can make.
The last time I lived in this state I was married to an abusive husband who held a sawed off rifle to me threatening to take my life only to end by taking his own.
Twenty-one years later I am back, living, in the same state. [but a completely different state of mind]
1990 = Frightened young little girl running for her life. Trying to find life and its meaning.
2011 = A grown up little girl embracing the gift of life…And meaning to live.
What a difference Mercy and Grace makes.
What’s your story?
Wow!
So amazing!!!!!
God is so gracious, so loving, and your journey is so beautiful, Miss Tam!
you know what i love most, joy…that we all have a story. we all have something that God smothered in mercy and grace. and they're all so powerful.
and…i miss your face. come back.
Agreed! On all accounts. I'ma comin' back. I is.
Awesome! I am blessed to see the transformed you & hear your testimony.
thank you, tiffany!
My story: I was once a pastors kid filled with a need for an acceptance from others, sheltered in the Christian bubble, and a little bit of pride.
Now I am a humbled broken (but in a good way) person who is out of the Christian bubble and looks for my acceptance in God alone.
hallelujah! lots of freedom in that, kamrie!
You're a stronger woman than I. We have debated Nashville several times but I am not sure I would handle it with such grace. I am glad and proud of you for seeing the difference. Love you.
i wouldn't say that, lynse. i know you…you are quite the determined dynamo!
i love you, too!
determined…that's a much nicer word than head-strong or stubborn.
thanks.
I simply love watching your life unfold…. {goosebumps} of God's soveriegnity.
Love you tons!
and i love the ocean pics you send me. you know they get right to my soul!
love you
I am always amazed at the ways of God and now that He has led you back to Tennessee, I can't wait to see what more He is getting ready to do in your life! God bless you Tammy ~
thank you, melissa! i can't wait either =) i tell ya tho…i never thought i'd be back here, thats for sure.
I always wondered how coming back here would feel for you. Thanks for sharing your story.
it's…different.
i certainly didn't see it coming. there's got to be something more to it than i know now.
I knew your story I just didn't realize it occured in TN.
Some of your comments about moving to Nashville make so much more sense now (duh:)
I love how God brings us back. He'll give us reprieve from life's storms and the places they occured in but He always brings us back when He knows we're ready (in His strength, of course) to be delivered from the remaining layers that we weren't strong enough to deal with before.
After I left Albion following my divorce I only went back on rare occasion to visit my spiritual sister and her family; avoiding main roads and public places because of the way I had been treated after my divorce by the people there. In this year of being bolder, God encouraged me to go back boldly and confidently so this May I went to her son's birthday party where people from my old church, the community, AND my ex-husband were present. God took me back and I was able to walk in there in God's grace, mercy, strength and peace; and walk away from there leaving any kind of guilt, shame, fear, anxiety behind. Albion and its people no longer traumatize me praise the Lord.
He wants your completely delivered from any fear, anixety, trauma you may associate with TN so you can be whole and complete to do the work of His kingdom.
What an awesome God we serve!
Love you!
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