Considered a poor but blessed family, I remember living in a one bedroom house with no bathroom and no running water, in a small town called White Plains in Alabama; later we moved to Valley, Alabama. As a teenager I began lip syncing and participating in a number of skits at the skating rink and disco clubs. After being converted from worldliness to righteousness and transformed by the renewing of my mind, I no longer thought or saw things the same. I realized that writing songs, poems and performing arts were gifts from God. Once I gave the gifts that God had given me back to Him and allowed Him to use me for His glory and not mine, I saw how God began to give me more of His wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of how to minister to His people according to what I’d been through and the words of my testimony. My constant prayer every day is, “if you can use anything Lord, you can use me”.