About Skip66

Greetings Skipp

My name is Jacqueline and I was reading your post and felt compelled to respond. My entire family has addiction issues. I was born with fetal alcohol syndrome. My mother attempted to raise my sister, and myself in as normal environment as possible. Funny thing is, being from an addict family herself, she had no clue what normal was. Drinking, drug use and all that comes with that was a normal part of my life. I have many years of lost memory and concentration issues ..due to the fetal alcohol syndrome I was born with. As an adult I realized that something was not “normal” about my thinking. I was living an unmanageable life. Self sabotaging everything good I ever had. This went on for years. It was many failed relationship later, that I had a spiritual awakening.

 I was a social work student and I was working a field placement at a Men’s treatment center, when I attended my first AA meeting. As a student they allowed us to attend open meetings with the clients and required we complete all the “homework” the clients would do. It was with an old hard copy of an AA book that I started to learn who I was. Every page of that book told my life story. If you were raised by an addict, there is no way your thinking could be any different than, that of an addict.

I was asked by the consoler, whom I was working with, "when was the last time you cried?" I had no answer for him. I went home that night and prayed for the first time in years. That night God spoke to me for the first time. He gave me a memory I had lost as a child. A very important one that answered a lot of questions for me. Anyway that was my spiritual awakening, but trust me, I was not changed over night. I got saved and baptized and still struggled. Once I finally and totally surrendered my life started to change.

I started to become very active in the building of a brand new church concept, in my town… a non denominational mult cultural church. It was great and kept me out of my head. Thing I want to make clear, and this is just how I see it, Spiritual awakening and surrendering are two totally different areas. You awake then you surrender .. well at lest how i see it ...

Life did not get out of control over night, but me with my "I want it now" thinking. . I often wanted to give up be4 I started to see true results.

I my total and complete surrender did not happen until a great deal of time had passes since my awakening. Anyway that is another story for another time, lol.

I was laying on my bed one day and the lord spoke to me, he told me I needed to get up and go to the computer and build a website. A website that I can reach people. I had been trying to figure how I would reach others who shared similar issues, and it was with God’s grace that I did build that site, and trust me when I tell you this, I had no real knowledge of website. I am learning everything as I go along. God has opened so many doors for me and I know he is going to keep on opening for me. I struggled for many years wondering what my plan was. I often cried myself to sleep asking “why Me” .. but now I know. Why me.. Why me is because God made me strong and God knows that even with al his glory, there is still evil out there and evil is trying full force to destroy everything good and God needs strong soldiers to stand and fight for him ... God made me strong, so I can fight for him.

Now I can sit and listen to people and truly understand where they been and what they are dealing with. I am not saying I am so perfect person and great example, because I am not. I am a simple person who simply wants to share with others. Just like you .. I am an expert in over coming. I just want to give you so much deserved praise, you are doing great. Please never give up. Keep on Keeping on.

Please stop by my site and share with us. The site is not just for single mothers, its also for fathers and those who do not have kids. I am going to add a single fathers page for info for men and single fathers.

www.singlemotherstudents.com

Please stop by and join the community, you never know who you might help with your information and knowledge.

Thank you so much for reading this mini book, lol

Have a blessed day

JacquelineN