My name is Rochelle. I am 33 years old. I'm from Ontario and this is the story of how Jesus Christ saved me. The

The Growing up, I was the youngest of two in a Christian family, and my parents really modeled the ways of God

to my brother and I in our household. So even down to our communication as a family, you know,

how we talked about emotions, they modeled apologies and mercy and grace and forgiveness really well, all while

being faithful to speak truth unashamedly to us at the same time. They served their local church

body and brought us along. They had us in youth groups and Bible camps, which we loved.

Like, I had a beautiful upbringing.

I even thought that my dad made up the word, sweetheart, just for me.

Like, that is how loved and seen and known and valued I felt growing up.

And if you know psychology terminology, you might know that the fact that this was my family of origin allowed me to form a secure attachment baseline.

And so there was this baseline level of security and trust and emotional intelligence and maturity and resilience that had been built into me through

God's provision of my family of origin. However, the attachment security that I formed, it was with my

family. It wasn't a secure attachment to the Lord himself. It wasn't a trusting security in God yet.

So I grew up in public school and through my social

life there, I was exposed to very worldly things from a young age. And a huge part of it was the dating

culture. It was just this culture that if you like someone and they like you, you date them and you

break up with them when you don't like them anymore. And it was this very

transactional treatment of relationships, quite honestly, across the board. Yes, relationships with

the opposite sex, but also with friend groups. If your friend group didn't agree with the way that

you were acting, they exclude you or make fun of you or bully you in some way until you conformed again.

So for me, in retrospect, I can see that grade school was very much this experience of

conform to the patterns of this world or get abandoned relationally. This was such a contrast from

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