For as long as I can remember from my childhood, I always had the fear of becoming overweight. It’s because a lot of my family members carried extra weight stemming back from many different generations. What this fear caused me to do was to become concerned about how many grams of fat that the food had in it. If it said fat free, I was all about eating it. I was always in sports, so exercising always served as a good discipline for me. This cycle probably lasted all the way into my college years.

I made a lot of mistakes as a teenager. I was in rebellion and was foolish. One of those mistakes that I made was dropping out of high school as a senior. I believe God’s goal is always restoring His people to Himself. This restoration is a process and a partnership.