About Me

   Hello! I'm Grace, and welcome to my blog! Here you'll find many different things, mostly posts about what God's been teaching me mixed in with some Bible Journaling, baking, swimming, and crafty things I make up or copy from my Pinterest boards. Be sure to follow my Pinterest and Facebook page @wateredroots so you don't miss anything!

   For a little more information on me, I'm a child of the King, mermaid at heart, and lover of music.

   When I was in second grade, my ABEKA video teacher, Mrs. Chappell, was teaching Bible class (I'm homeschooled, by the way). She was teaching that all you needed to do was ask Jesus into your heart and He would save you. Well, I knew that what she was teaching was wrong, because that is what our church taught against, but I KNEW that something was wrong between me and God. I paused the video and ran downstairs to my bedroom and cried. About a few months before this, a preacher from down south had come up and preached at our revival. There were some tracts that he had brought with him and laid out on a table. I had grabbed some of them so that when I got home, I could look at them. One of the tracts that had been set out was a checklist of things that various belief systems believe that you can get to heaven by. I went through the list and checked off different things, sometimes not really understanding what I had just marked.  I took it up to my dad and showed him what I had filled out. He explained to me that none of the things I checked were enough to get me to heaven. In fact, nothing on the list that you could check was enough to get you to heaven. After he explained that, he showed me that nothing we do by ourselves can get us to heaven. Dad then moved on to tell me that the Ten Commandments were made to show that the obeying the law can't save us. Galatians 2:16-21 says,

               

   Knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid! For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I live; yet not I but Christ who liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness came by the law, then Christ died for naught.

               

   Dad went on to say that since we can't do things by the law, we are helpless. Only by repentance and faith in Jesus can we be saved.

               

   Going back to where I was crying in bed.

               

   I felt in my heart that I couldn't do it. I didn't know what to do. I knew that I would go to hell if I died right then. My mom came into the room and asked what was wrong. I told her and we prayed together, but I hadn't gotten saved. About a week later, we were driving home from church and I was praying. I thought that I had gotten saved after that, but there was something inside me that told me I wasn't. About another week after that situation, we were driving to church and we had prayer before we left the house. I continued praying after that. I kept asking God to save me because I couldn't do it by myself. Suddenly, I felt this peace just wash over me. I felt so happy and I just knew that I was saved. When we arrived at the church, and my dad had asked for prayer requests, praises, or testimonies, I told the church that I had gotten saved. A few months later, I joined the church and have been trying to do God's will ever since. I have failed many times, but He has forgiven me when I fall. He has blessed me so much with godly friends that I am around all the time who strengthen my faith. 

   Part of the reason I started this blog was that God really put a burden on my heart to reach out to girls my age. I've had this burden ever since I was ten, and it has manifested in different ways since then. In the early phase of this journey, I created a monthly newsletter for girls. After a while, God led me to take a break for awhile, and a year or two later, I started this blog. It's amazing to see what God has done in my life and others through writing what He has put on my heart. 

   A side note: I'm a swimmer and a swim lesson instructor, which means that, yes, I have a love-hate relationship with the pool. My favorite strokes are breaststroke and butterfly, but I also love swimming IM (for those who don't know, that's all four strokes). Chlorine is my perfume. : )

   I also play and teach piano, the latter I've just started up doing! I love every minute of it. In my spare time, I love to write medleys and experiment with different styles of music. 

   All in all, that's just a little bit about me. Feel free to explore the blog!