Timothy McDonald

I was baptized as a baby and attended Catholic school from kindergarten through 8th grade. As a child it just felt as if it was something that I had to do. I had no relationship or connection with God and started to have questions as I got older. I still believed there was a God but didn’t have any faith. As time went on I drifted further and further away. Relying on my own feelings and understanding. I grew extremely bitter and angry due to past traumas and developed a victim mentality. I pointed the finger and blamed everyone but myself. I had become a shell of myself and was completely lost and broken inside. Constantly looking to outward things for internal happiness, but nothing left me fulfilled. That emptiness led me down some very dark roads. Some of which I didn't think I would ever make it back from. Roads of anger, addiction, and pure evil. It got to a point where I couldn’t take it anymore and decided to try the one thing I gave up on. That was surrendering my will to God and asking for His help. I was so undeserving but yet He showed me that His love for me was unconditional. He left the other 99 for me and died on a cross for my salvation. My testimony is nothing short of a miracle and I'm grateful to my Lord and Savior every single day. 2 Corinthians 5:17 — “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”