I was born into a loving family, but I was an unhappy child, because I was born hearing and became deaf when I was about 5 years old. I was the only deaf person that I knew. Everyone else was hearing. Other kids would laugh at me and mock me because I often misunderstood what they were saying and I had this weird thing in my ear – which was my hearing aid. Back then they were much bigger than today.
When I was in high school, I made a new friend who was hearing, but he accepted me as I was. He was an unhappy person too, but he started to date a girl who was happy all the time. When the three of us hung out together, I always wondered why she could always be happy, no matter what happened.
I finally learned that the secret of her happiness was that she had a relationship with someone – no, not her boyfriend. The person who made her happy is Jesus Christ. Through viewing her life, I learned that the cure for my unhappiness in life was to have a relationship with Jesus. Jesus and I became friends in 1977, and ever since I have experienced His true joy.
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