Now I'm sure many of you have had an incident or two in your lives that make you think, "Wow! I shouldn't have lived through that." Or, "why did that happen to me?", "How did I get through that?" Mine came in December 2003. We were returning from a holiday at the coast. We had decided to leave a few days earlier because we were missing our friends and family. About halfway home we were involved in a horrific car accident that should have left us badly injured, if not dead. But we were all unscathed.

I still remember sitting afterwards with Nants and Emelda and commenting on how it would have been cool if we at least had a scar. A foolish thought at the time. But the accident left us all three thinking the same thing: Why did the Lord want us to survive the crash? What purpose did He have in mind for us? We all said that we should start some kind of a study where we could speak about the Lord and how He works in each of our lives differently; the impact various circumstances have on our lives.

It took some time but a year or so later Nants approached Chris and asked him if he wouldn't mind heading up a Bible study for us young adults. To our delight he obliged and so the Young Adults Bible Study began.

YABS has been an encouragement to many of us. I don't think I realized how the Lord would use a small study like YABS to work in my life and bring me closer to Him. It has shown me that when I think I'm the only one struggling with my faith there are a handful of people right next to me experiencing the same thing; I've see what it means to live by faith and surrender your all to Christ; how the Lord tests us, teaches us and blesses us; how He uses people and circumstances to help us grow and draw nearer to Him.

I wish I could tell you the moment when I realized that I wanted to change my life and live for the Lord. I think in everyone's lives there are various things that lead up to such a moment and there isn't one particular incident that makes it happen. But what I do know is that my life is changing; more and more every day. And its changing for Him. I know I am still going to struggle for a long time in my walk with the Lord; but at the same time I know that if I'm not struggling then I'm not growing either.

In closing I leave you with one of my favourite verses which always helps me when I'm in a moment of struggle: Proverbs 3:5 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."