Meet Sis Gloria Huerta, a wonderful sister in Christ, as she shares her personal testimony and Homeless Ministry with us all.
I am 55 years young. Mother of 3 grown daughters, 5 grandchildren. Single, celibate and very happy after a 23 year marriage. And serving in the streets and sharing the gospel to anyone who will listen.
I got married at 16 to my husband who was 18. (eloped to TJ Mexico)
Partied hard for 4 years (who at this age had their own apartment)
#1 daughter at 20
#2 at 23,
(Had an abortion after this one, due to my own self absorb thinking)
#3 at 26 (I know now how much God' loves me as she was a special gift who was born with Down syndrome)
During this time cocaine, pot, and alcohol were part of this family. Selling and doing it daily. All the while I was going to Catholic church and doing the Sunday thing...Thinking I was not a sinner.
One night I will never forget was the night I saw Death on my face as walked into bathroom and looked into the mirror after a couple weeks of just being high on all drugs..non stop. Friends just coming over to buy and then stay and hang out all night..All the while I had my little girls!!!
As I walked into the bathroom and saw myself It was not me but a skull with very dark circle under my eyes....
if ever I wanted to live it was at the moment!! I cried out to God to save me.
When I walked out cocaine was left behind....never to be in me ever again.
I told was my husband I was done!! no more!! and told him he needed to quit too. But he choose to be now be married to cocaine (doing it and selling it) he just did outside of the house.
With all the lies, and staying out late, doing the drugs behind my back I had left him with the girls and moved from San Francisco to Rohnert Park with the help of family. I took him back after he promised the cocaine was out of his life for good.
We bought a small condo in RP. Everything seem OK..but the drug was back into his life and it got worse. He denied it many times that he was not using.
So at 39 I left everything, the house, my belongs, job and took Gloria Jr who was 13 at the time.The other two were already living out of the house with friends.
I thank our God and my family for being there for me and not judging me by my mistakes. They were there when I really needed them.
I had one other intimate relationship that lasted 2 nights. I knew then that God did not intend for us as women to be sleeping around with just anyone. So right then I made a promise to God that I would never sleep with another man unless he would be of God's choosing & he becomes my husband. But I also ask him to keep me so busy that I would not have time to be tempted.
Still waiting on God, but in the mean time I am loving him more and more. He is my husband whom I serve. I was born again along with Gloria Jr in October 15Th, 2000. I know I am a sinner, and I know I have been forgiven.
My real testimony is the story I want to share with you and why I love serving our God and savior Jesus.
The Streets of San Francisco 6/9/06
WHERE DO I BEGIN TO TELL YOU HOW BROKING INSIDE I WAS WHEN I FINALLY GOT HOME SATURDAY AT 2:30 AM.
FEELING ASHAMED AND THANKFUL AT THE SAME TIME. KNOWING THAT I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE IF SITUATIONS IN MY LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT.
IF GOD HAD NOT SHOWN HIS MERCY ON ME AND WOKE UP THE SPIRIT INSIDE ME, TO SHOW ME THE WRONG I WAS DOING NOT ONLY TO MYSELF BUT TO MY FAMILY.
I COULD HAVE HAD EVERYTHING TAKEN AWAY FROM ME HAD I GOT CAUGHT SELLING AND DOING DRUGS IN MY HOME ALONG WITH MY HUSBAND WHILE I HAD 3 LITTLE GIRLS.
PUT IN JAIL FOR WHO KNOWS HOW LONG, &. COMING OUT AND NOT HAVING FAMILY TO SUPPORT ME DURING A TIME WHEN I REALLY NEEDED THEM.
LAYING IN THE STREETS, HOMELESS, ON DRUGS, GIVING UP MY BODY FOR THE LITTLE MONEY I WERE TO GET TO BUY MORE DRUGS.
NO BED TO SLEEP ON, NO FOOD TO FILL ME UP, NO BATHROOM TO TAKE A DUMP IN, NO TUB TO TAKE A NICE WARM BATHE IN.
BUT WORSE NO PLACE I COULD CALL HOME EXCEPT RIGHT THERE IN THE STREETS.
ALL THINGS THAT WERE MY LIFE BEFORE WERE TAKEN AWAY BECAUSE OF THE STUPID MISTAKES I DID IN THE PASS.
THERE WERE 12 OF US IN A VAN. WE WHERE TAKEN TO GOLDEN GATE AND ELLIS STREETS. PRAYING BEFORE WE GOT THERE, FOR THE PEOPLE WE WERE ABOUT TO SEE. YES, WE WERE WARNED THAT WE WERE ABOUT TO GO TO WHAT I CALL HELL.
EACH OF US HAVING A BACKPACK FILLED WITH BRAND NEW WHITE SOCKS, COOKIES, GATORADE, BEEF JERKY.
YOU WOULD THINK THAT THESE THINGS WERE NOT A BIG DEAL. BUT TO THE MAN WHO HAD NOT HAD A CLEAN PAIR OF SOCKS FOR YEARS, THIS WAS GOLD.
TO THE WOMEN WHO BEGGED FOR THE BOTTLE OF GATORADE, BECAUSE SHE KNEW THAT SHE MIGHT GET SOME RELIEF FOR HER THIRSTY AND CRACKED LIPS. THEY WERE SO HAPPY TO SEE THAT SOMEONE CARED.
OH, I WISHED THAT I WOULD HAVE HAD A BLANKET FOR THE OLD MAN WHO LOOKED LIKE HE WOULD DIED THIS VERY NIGHT. BRIAN AND I WERE DESPERATELY LOOKING FOR ONE. AND WE FOUND ONE IN A CAR, THAT HAD THE DOORS UNLOCKED.
I SAW MY BROTHER IN JESUS BRIAN'S EYES AND HOW HE WANTED THAT BLANKET, THAT HE WOULD EVEN STEAL IT SO THAT THE OLD MAN COULD BE WARM. SO I OPENED THE CAR DOOR TO GET IT, AND WAS CAUGHT IN THE ACT BY A YOUNG MAN LOOKING OUT A WINDOW ACROSS THE STREET. ALAS WE WERE TURNED DOWN EVEN WHEN WE ASKED FOR IT.
I GAVE A PAIR OF SOCKS TO A CUBAN WOMEN. HER EYES LIT UP AS I ALSO GAVE HER COOKIES AND GATORADE. LATER ON I SAW HER AGAIN. GETTING READY. HER PANTS OFF, A VERY SHORT COAT, PICKING THE DEAD SKIN OFF HER FEET SO THAT THE BRAND NEW SOCKS WOULD SHINE AS SHE WAS PREPARING TO WALK THE STREETS FOR DRUG MONEY. SHE COULD HAVE BEEN SOMEONES MOM, SISTER, OR GRANDMOTHER!!!!!!!
THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT I KEEP HEARING " I'M TRYING TO GET HOME" BUT FOR SOME REASON THEY CAN NOT. THEIR FAMILY HAS GIVING UP ON THEM. THEIR FAMILY NO LONGER HAS FAITH IN THEM. THEY HAVE TRIED OVER AND OVER TO HELP THEM TO NO AVAIL.
THEIR FAMILY NO LONGER CALLS THEM, FATHER, MOTHER BROTHER, SISTER
OH, LORD GOD I AM SO THANKFUL FOR YOUR MERCY AND GRACE ON ME AND MY FAMILY. THANK YOU FOR SHOWING ME THE WAY OUT OF THE PIT I WAS IN OVER 20 YEARS AGO. THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN, MY 3 DAUGHTER'S, MY 5 GRANDCHILDREN, MY DAD & MOM, AND THE REST OF THIS MOST PRECIOUS FAMILY.
IN JESUS NAME, AMEN
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