DAY 2

April Speirs | Re:Hope West End

I've been blessed to live with a childhood friend of mine for the last year or so. The story of us living together is in itself an awesome story of God's perfect timing. We've known each other our whole lives and it's been a joy getting to be flatmates!

Back in 2023, we both left the church we had grown up in. It was a really difficult time for both of us and for our families. However, it has turned out to be one of those amazing situations where you look back and praise God for the hardest moments because it really all worked out for the better. 

A couple of weeks ago we were sitting one Sunday evening and started talking about our experiences of forgiveness. It's hard to explain how impossible forgiveness once felt to both of us. It really was a fake it till you make it situation and in the living room that evening we both realised we had, by the grace of God, made it. She shared that she had experienced freedom in her life and I can testify that I've been freed from a lot of hurt and a victim mentality that was preventing me from moving on. I'm grateful to have been allowed to extend forgiveness to others knowing it's still only a fraction of what I myself have experienced from the Father! 

We are also both integrated in churches that we love and have had wonderfully redemptive experiences of church family in ways we couldn't have imagined. God has answered SO many prayers for both of us and given us an opportunity to see His redemption in each other's lives! And I'm grateful to have been blessed with awesome God-given flatmates for the past few years. He really knows exactly what we need!