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My name’s Maddy, I’m almost 14 years old, and I’d like to share my story with you. I was born into occultism; my father and his whole side of the family were Hindu and my mother was New Age. My parents got a divorce when I was 3, and my mother went through several marriages after that, which also involved moving all over the world including, India and Germany. It was very hard on me as a little kid to move around so much, and to get used to a new step father. From a very early age, I somehow got the message that I had to be perfect. For my entire life up until now, I was heavily into driveness and perfectionism. I was a straight-a student, star athlete, and a 1st chair violinist. I was raised to use guided imagery and affirmations to get what I wanted in life, and I went to sleep listening to the Course of Miracles every night. I didn’t reject Christianity, in fact I knew nothing about it, and I knew that there was a God, I just didn’t have a relationship with Him. In the summer of 2004, we moved to a new house, and right away, my mother started to get sick. I remember her going to doctor after doctor frantically trying to figure out what was wrong with her, and I remember hearing my mom and my step dad talking about how the doctor’s said she might have cancer or something like that. From hearing all of that, I became very worried and stressed out. A few months after my mother began to get sick, I started having the exact same symptoms. We finally found out that we had a severe natural gas leak and carbon monoxide leak in our house. We had been breathing this for 10 months. Then we finally found the only clinic in the world that treats MCS/EI, and coincidentally, it was in Dallas. As soon as we started to get treatment there, we were sucked into even more occultism. We became involved in energy balancing, homeopathy, Chinese herbs, yoga, kinesiology, and much more. We only got worse. My mom had heard of Pleasant Valley Church through several people, but she rejected it, because we thought all that we needed was a doctor. Finally, after I had been out of school for a year, not able to do home schooling because I was so sick, giving up our house, dog, family, friends, everything that we knew, my mother was even allergic to water, and life was no life at all, my mother finally decided to give Pleasant Valley a shot. We threw our stuff in the car, and after many hard obstacles, we were finally in Georgia. On the day that they delivered us from fear, I was miraculously healed. And I have been in excellent health ever since. I am going back to school this coming fall, and I am getting my life finally on track, this time with God in the picture! Life is so much different from how it used to be. I go to church, bible studies, and healing groups several times a week, I listen to only Christian music, I’m not of the world anymore, and I am making new Christian friends! |