Twice Adopted

"Have you ever felt that God was angry with you?  Did you ever do something so shameful that you lived in fear that someone would find out?  That your secret would be exposed?  Did you ever feel that something you did was so horrible and vile that God could never forgive you?  Have you ever been convinced that you were going to hell and there was nothing you could do about it?  Have you  ever felt angry toward God--a raging anger over something terrible that happened in your life?  Something that hurt you and violated you?  Something for which you blamed God?

Did you ever hate God?

Did you ever believe that God hated you?

That is how I felt for more than thirty years of my life.

This is my story of redemption.  This is the story of how I was twice adopted."