The most important decision that I made occurred when I was only 9 years old.
“What was the decision?”
I decided to ask Jesus to be my Personal Savior.
One may think that my first ‘Faith Builder’ is silly, however, it wasn’t for me at the time as God cares about every detail of my life. I prayed a simple prayer asking God to bring my cat back home. Remember, I’m 9 years old. My cat was an outdoor cat and she had been missing for several weeks. I thought that for sure she had died. The very next day after praying for my cat to come home, she DID! My cat came home. I held her and talked to her and cherished my time with her. I thanked God for answering my prayer about my cat. God is an awesome God.
At the time my first Full-Blown Manic Episode began at home and then escalated at the hospital, my ‘Faith’ helped me to be discerning of ‘Truth’ as I figured out who I could trust with my emotions and the situation at hand. Once I could distinguish who I could trust with my emotions at the hospital, it was then that my ‘Faith’ helped me to ‘Focus’ on navigating the treatment plan for my Bipolar I Disorder diagnosis and getting discharged.
If it wasn’t for my Faith in Christ, my Bipolar Journey wouldn’t be what it is today. I would be a non-compliant emotional mess. I was dependent on reading scripture and praying at the time of my diagnosis. As I continue to follow my treatment plan, I continue depending on God; reading the Bible and praying.
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