My fiance and I have been Christians for just over a year.  In that year my life has gone from something worthless, to something priceless. 

I remember being in grade one and saying the Lord's Prayer every day and then one day, we weren't allowed to say it anymore.  It became a bad thing.  As a young 6 year old I walked away from that experience thinking there was no God, that's why they pulled the prayer from the school.  I ingrained that belief system into my head so deeply that I felt like i was going to go crazy.  I simply couldn't imagine what the point of life was and I was sinking deeper and deeper into a depression.  I was officially lost.

Now my fiance wasn't Christian, but there was something in him that believe there was a higher power.  One day I came to him crying and said "Daren do you remember what it felt like to believe in Jesus as children?  Everything felt so wonderful then."  After that my fiance was almost assaulted by this pretty little melody and these bizarre lyrics.  He called the song Pray (Jesus is the Way) and he wondered (as a secular person) what he was going to do with this song!  We tried to push it out of our minds, but God would have none of that.  Christian references, movies, songs, emails and anything else you might think of that is Jesus related started coming out of the woodworks.  Coincidences?  Nah... WAY too many miracles to be anything but that... miracles.  

We were feeling pretty weirded out by this point, here we had this song that we felt ashamed of because we weren't Christian and for some reason everything in our life was starting to point Christian!  So, we started to do some research and there is nothing that proves Jesus didn't exist in the physical world and when we started looking at the spiritual clues He was sending... it became a no brainer. 

Daren felt the cleansing power of forgiveness one day in an epiphany and he has been a devoted follower since that day. 

And me?  Well I humbly asked Jesus one day to help me through giving me a wise excerpt from the bible.  I just wanted to know if He was watching.  I pulled a quote from Revelation.  The one with the 100 pound hail stones and men cursing God.  I remembered feeling disappointed.  Until 10 minutes later it hailed on the clearest day in March and the people just outside my window... cursed God because a HUGE hailstone had broken their windshield!

I believe my first response was: "IT'S HAILING! IT'S HAILING!" I ran to the phone and called my fiance... (who had been there when I asked for something inspirational from the bible) and I got his voicemail, because he was calling me and leaving me a message: "IT'S HAILING! IT'S HAILING!" 

So we have been followers ever since.  We have picked up our crosses and we are trying desperately hard to show people that if you can learn to accept that living this life has nothing to do with material gain and everything to to with finding the clues God left for you to follow, things will feel really good.

So that's my testimony.  Jesus really is the way :) He really, really is.