What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

Growing up in a Christian family, I heard the story of Jesus birth at Christmas time every year and that God sent Him because He loved us. Surely, there are persons out there who did not have the same experience. Cassandra Walwyn, protagonist in DO NOT BE DECEIVED, was one of them. Growing up in poverty, abandoned by her mother and older sister, abused by her father, falling into an unhealthy relationship with a boy... talk about life not being fair?

And, yet, she was a "nice" girl...she was compassionate, she was courageous, she chose to seek what was good. Baptized as a child by her then present mother, her life soon fell into despair, but God provided her with circumstances and reasons to go forward and separate truth from evil.

God worked at her heart before she even knew about God.

One may wonder why they were placed in their particular family, their marriage, their neighborhood, their job, but there is a reason. “What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?” God gives us people in our lives, a place to be, and His presence. And, then tells us to live in Him, trust in Him, and find joy in His everlasting promises.

God is always there no matter where you are.

Ever felt­­­­­ like the "nice girl" in the middle of your circumstances and wonder how you got there? Boredom, despair, numbness, trouble, danger, shame--it happens. It’s usually in those down times that we experience the love of God—if we’re willing to get on our knees and say, “I can’t do this on my own anymore.”

The only one who can truly satisfy the human heart is the One who made it.

 Lois Evans