My name is Eldina and I was born in 1991. As a young child I experienced the divorce of my parents, so I grew up with my grandparents. My mom was living a new life with her new husband and my dad found a new wife for himself. The years went by... I was growing up and there came a moment when I understood what having an unresolved problem in one's life can mean for them.
My mom had a deep problem with using drugs, my dad had a deep problem of using alcohol, and I had a deep problem of missing love from my parents. It created a certain depression in me and I became an object of ridicule. People laughed at me because of my parents. The hardest moment in my life was when my mom ended up in a prison and I felt that I really did not know her enough, but I needed her next to me.
The pain that was growing in me and over the years started to activate and finally it broke me. I was so young, full of life, yet did not want to live any more. I had no motivation to continue living, despite my grandma and grandpa giving me so much love. I simply missed my parents.
After that hard period, my mom went into a rehabilitation center for six months and she came back a completely new person. I had a mother full of love, who sought forgiveness from me, and who knew how to love. I was challenged to know what made her so different. She told me about God. We went to a church together, but my heart was simply too hard to receive the comfort of the Word of God. The message was going straight through my ears. However, God had a plan!
At one youth Christian camp God met me. I experienced His great love which He shows to His children and I felt extremely welcomed. For the first time in my life I felt completely loved and accepted. I so wanted God in my life because I knew how much I needed Him. I accepted Him and felt His embrace. Afterwards He started to rule in my life and my heart and I started to deal with all of my hurt, pain and suffering. He healed me! He helped me to let it all go and forgive. That happened six years ago.
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