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18th December 2008

My name is Felicity Jayne Nicole Hope and I am 18 years old.

For about two years I have been trying to give my life to the king of all kings as best as I can. He is my creator and knows all I have done and yet loves me all the same.

When I was one and a half years old, I was taken away from my mother and placed into foster care. For the next two years I was in and out of seventeen different families, sometimes with my younger brother, but we were usually separated.

When I was three and a half, I came to live with the Hope family. They already had three natural children and two they had already adopted. They showed my baby brother and I what true love was and although I received all this support from my new family, when I started school, I still felt isolated. I felt different and I found it hard to make new friends and when I started high school, I just conformed.

When I was sixteen, I was sick of being the girl who had the ‘right' hair, wore the ‘right' clothes, had the ‘right' boyfriend and made the ‘right' friends. I just wanted everyone to know who I really was.

At this time there was a girl my age, regularly looking after my niece. I knew that she attended a local church and I asked her about it. She took me with her on Sunday nights and to Youth group on Fridays. I started to attend regularly. At this church I made friends easily, I didn't need to contain my troubles and I was finally able to show these people who I truly was - I was free.

Over the next few weeks, God showed himself to me more and more. One time the youth pastor's wife was reading about when Jesus was crucified by his people and she began to cry. It was at this moment, I gave my life to God. I finally saw all he had done for me. I was now able to share everything with God, things I was never able to share with anyone else.

God became my best friend, blessing me with the most wonderful people to encourage and support me. With God's love I have transformed into the person I really am - I daughter of God.

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Jemma Dyer

October 11, 2009 at 10:55pm

This girl is the best girl hey she is always there for ya jem xoxox YEAH FLOSSSS

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Madi Fox

October 18, 2011 at 12:56pm

wow fliss, i would never have known, youre so strong. youre an amazing, beautiful person, never change for anyone. miss you xoxo :)

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