My name is Sherry Grag and I am the author of Arms Open Wide, a call to linger in the Savior's

presence.

My daughter Megan is graduating from high school in just a couple of months and I am in this weird

state of being excited for her and an extended period of anticipatory grief and I just can't believe that she's

going to be gone you know and I don't think that any of us can.

Welcome to the experience Jesus I don't think that any of us can.

Welcome to the Experience Jesus Calling Podcast.

Shery Grag is not only a successful author and speaker,

she is the proud mother of five children.

As she gets ready to send her oldest daughter off to college,

she reflects on her own experience toward finding her life's path

and what it was like when she herself made this important leap into adulthood.

I was born in Nashville, Tennessee and I have lived here more than I have lived anywhere else in my life. My family moved around the

south some when I was a child so I've lived in a few different places. I spent my

childhood in Appalachia in the

mountains of North Carolina, but I've been back here since I was 18 years old so

this is definitely home for me. I really believe that God creates us all with a purpose and mind and it's very comforting

to me. I believe he created me to be a writer. I in first grade remember when all the other kids had free time

They'd be playing with blocks. I fell in love with books and I would be over in the corner reading Dick and Jane as simple as they were and I loved those books and I really thought that I would like to be a journalist

but because my home had very defined ideas of what my path should be,

I really had no choice of where to go to school.

And my parents felt very strongly that I was to go to the denominational Bible College.

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