Oh Come Blessed Dawn - By Dexter Nocon

Thank You Lord that the weight we must carry 

For You it is not heavy, though they may be many 

How you turn our mourning into dancing,  

Our sorrow into singing, Our sadness to rejoicing  

This darkness and grief is but for a moment 

The night’s blackness will leave, no longer to torment  

Oh come blessed dawn

Of a new and glorious day 

Wipe my tears and longer mourn 

For joy and celebration is on its way

Hey People,

My name is Misty and I wanted to share my testimony with you.

When I was little, I was abused by a guy while my mom was at work at night and after that I thought all guys were mean and abusive towards all women.

When I was six, my mom got in a huge car accident and almost died. I was so mad at God I told him “I hate you” and “you’re a big meany and you keep trying to kill me by hurting my mommy and me!!”

Then a few years went by and I was in fourth grade and I thought I was gay because I had no interest in guys only girls. I didn’t tell any body, not even my friend Kevin, and I told him everything. I kept this a secret from everybody. All of a sudden, I started getting really sad and depressed and in sixth grade, I started cutting myself. That was my way of “self medicating” It felt so good at first but when I was done, I was in so much more pain, but I thought it felt good and so what if it hurt. I felt fine, so it was no big deal.

Then one day Laurie Becker invited me over to her b-day slumber party and then asked me if I wanted to go to church with her and her family. I asked my family, and we started going. My mom and dad liked it, so I liked it but I didn’t feel close to God. I still felt very far.

Then, I prayed that I would feel Gods presence whenever I prayed or was at church and that worked for a year.

I started middle school and I met new people and stopped hanging out with Laurie. We would stop and talk sometimes, but that was it. As the year went on, I got worse. I started cutting more. I started smoking, drinking and getting in fights. Then, one of my friends introduced me to something called yaoi/henti (yaoi is gay anime porn, henti is straight anime porn). I thought that it was okay because it was like a comic book, but you read it backwards. Then, I was getting bored of yaoi and started watching real porn and I was satisfied. It made me feel better.

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