I’m guest posting at Katie M. Reid today.

Have you ever been blindsided by life?
From out of nowhere, you’re hit with bad news and in an instant it all changes.

• The marriage is over.
• The child’s addicted.
• The job ends.
• The car’s wrecked.
• The money’s gone.
• The diagnosis is pronounced.

And all you can wail is WHY?

I get it. It happened to me, too. I expected that since life went pretty well for me as a WILD CHILD, it would continue to go well for me as a CHURCH GIRL.

See, I didn’t reconcile my differences with Jesus until I was in my 30’s so I had plenty of time to test the boundaries of the law, my moral compass and whatever gods there were. As a Club Dancer, then a Playboy Bunny, I was offered everything a girl could want…in exchange for what every boy wants. I had money, cars and adoration.

Every kind of indulgence was available to me.

When the One True God led me out of that life and into one with Him, I naturally assumed that things would only get better. Wouldn’t you?

And, they did. For a while.

Read more at Katie M. Reid’s blog.