Hello, everyone! Thank you so much for being a faithful reader of my blog and for supporting me. You do me such a great honor, being able to speak into your lives with the help of Almighty God. I pray that it brings encouragement and closeness with our Savior with a lasting relationship for all eternity. That is my heart, after all, to meet you one day, and celebrate running our race for Jesus that resulted in eternity in heaven.
I felt led to share my testimony with you, in more detail, to ultimately give God praise, as well as encourage you to keep fighting. This race isn’t an easy one, I can assure you, but Jesus never said it would be easy. Instead, He said that He would be with us every step of the way. It is one thing to claim faith in Jesus, and another to actually live it. I don’t know about you, but I need an army of soldiers by my side, and I pray that through this experience you will be all the more excited to continue your faith and tell more people about Jesus.
I do have a short “About Me” in the About section of my blog, but I wanted to share a little more about how this all started and how God brought me out of darkness and into the light. As stated in the About section, I grew up going to church and turned away from God around the age of 18. Living like Jesus was just too much for me to keep doing. I was selfish and full of the lust of the flesh, living for God wasn’t something I was interested in anymore. I truly believe that when I was younger, I really tried to do what was right, but I lacked understanding and proper guidance. And if you don’t water the plant, it will have a hard time growing. This went on for a long time, much too long. But I know that when we make wrong turns, God comes to find us.
I grew up in Alabama and lived there until I turned 29, then I moved to North Carolina. I was in an abusive relationship which led to marriage and just two months after we went to the courthouse and I changed my last name, I decided in the middle of the night that I wanted a better life. I was searching for my purpose but mostly I was running from mistakes and regrets. It was in 2020 when I decided to move, I’ll never forget the day. I had never really been anywhere my whole life, so driving 9 and a half hours away wasn’t something I thought I would ever do. When I pictured raising my children it was always in Alabama. It’s all I ever knew. So, when I tell you God was at the wheel, I truly mean it. I had no business in North Carolina, yet that’s exactly where I found myself when my life was forever changed.
I moved just before Covid struck the world, so dating was crazy. I couldn’t meet anyone or go anywhere except work, so I decided to check out online dating. I know, I know…anyway. In June of 2020, I went on a coffee date with some redneck in a beat-up pickup truck and drank coffee talking about how mistletoe was actually a disease for trees. I told myself when I moved to North Carolina I wasn’t dating anymore rednecks, something my husband still laughs at, but praise God He knew what I needed. One date led to another, and another, and before long, we were inseparable. Let me remind you we were not saved at this point, so we were in fact living in sin and I do not condone that.
In December of 2020, we found out we were having a baby, but I didn’t believe it until my first doctor’s appointment where I found out I was roughly 14 weeks pregnant. We found out 6 weeks later we were having a boy. The realization of being a father changed my then boyfriend, and we got engaged shortly after. I believe God was stirring my husband to seek truth because he was slowly changing. His priorities shifted from fishing and hunting, to setting up a baby room and making our home a healthy environment. We were still very much in sin and even though we wanted to do things right, we couldn’t do it on our own. We had our son in August of 2021 and then got married in April of 2022. Shortly after, we moved closer to the city and that is where everything changed. I found out I was pregnant again just a couple of months after our wedding and I wasn’t taking it well. I already had an 8-month-old, and I was not ready to add another member to our family yet, but God’s ways are higher than ours.
As previously stated, my husband is a country boy. He rides dirt bikes, catches fish then cooks them in a can over an open flame, and could absolutely take home the prize money on one of those survival shows. He is completely content in the woods. Me, on the other hand, prefer camping to last no longer than a few days, then I’m ready to take a real shower and get back to civilization. One particular day, my husband had ridden his dirt bike up to the store, I don’t even remember why, but he met a man named Jeramy, who loved his bike so much, they exchanged information to meet up later and ride together. They eventually ended up going for a ride and my husband remembered Jeramy one day during a particularly terrible argument we were having. He decided to reach out to Jeramy to arrange a get-together. I was struggling a lot with not having any friends or family around and being a stay-at-home mother with a baby on the way that I wasn’t sure how I was going to raise. Thomas really needed me to find someone to help me in ways he couldn’t. I didn’t want friends, though. Life taught me it was easier without them. Broken people can’t fix each other.
After reaching out to Jeramy, he invited us to church the following weekend, and even though I had no interest in church or God, I agreed to going. I’m not really sure why, to be honest. But I know God had something to do with it. We went to church, as planned, and upon entering the building, I felt something, something I really don’t know how to describe. It just felt right. During the service, I had a couple ladies (who I am now friends with), come up to me and ask how my relationship with God was. I lied and something along the lines of, “I’m working on it.” I was not working on it. One lady, thank God for her boldness, said that I didn’t have forever to work on it, that I wasn’t promised tomorrow. I knew that, but something about those words hit me right then and I wanted to choose Jesus. I was too prideful to accept alter call, but the next morning, right in my living room, I spoke to God for the first time in years, and it felt like I was picking up right where we left off.
My husband, though it took him a few months, gave his heart to God as well, and has even accepted the call to preach. Our church believes in church planting, so my husband and I, along with our children, will leave our mother church and go into a new city and start from scratch. But I’m getting ahead of myself. In October of 2023, I stumbled upon Bible journaling, and I bought everything I need to start my own journaling Bible, even though I had very little knowledge of scripture. In 2024, I started a Facebook thread about various scripture God laid on my heart, basically allowing God to use my platform to help others in their walk with Christ. I was speaking with my dad and brainstorming ideas on how to do more with my writing and he suggested starting a blog. I agreed and when we were thinking of a name, we stumbled upon Bible Breadcrumbs. My dad set up my website and I started typing up blogs.
As much as I loved it, life got in the way, and I found myself uninterested in doing much with my blog. I had stopped praying about it and it soon became a distant thought in my mind. Then at the beginning of 2025, God laid it on my heart to start Bible journaling again and doing more with my blog. After countless prayers and determination, my dad and I have turned a little blog into a YouTube channel, a Facebook group, and we’re in the process of making t-shirts and other merchandise. A few months prior to all this, I started creating event slides for my church and that has taught me a great deal of things I use in my content for Bible Breadcrumbs. God has really shown up in my life and has given me so many opportunities to use my talents and abilities for His purpose. I can’t wait to post an update at the end of this year giving God all the praise for using me in such a profound way. Bible Breadcrumbs will continue to grow and who knows where we will end up this year or the next? I do know that obeying God is my number one priority, so your continued prayers are greatly appreciated. God isn’t finished writing my story, so until then, get used to seeing Bible Breadcrumbs.
Amber
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