About Stephi Michelle

I am a Child of God…Everything I do, every move I make, I try to make sure it is all for the Lord.  I, of course, am not a perfect person, but Christ knows where my heart is and how much I love Him.  I have such a hunger for the Lord and I am wanting to learn more and more each and every day.

I have been married to the man I love since April 22, 1989.  I was 19 when we got married.  We have 2 children.  Amanda was born July 19, 1988 and Brian was born November 13, 1989.  We were born to Christ in October 1993.  I can’t imagine what my life would have been like without Jesus in my life.  Because of Him, I am alive and I praise him each and every day.  What an awesome God we have.

Here is my background.  I was adopted as a baby.  I have known basically since birth that I was adopted.  My birth mom was 15 when she gave birth to me and I know that it would have been very hard for her to have taken care of me.  What I understand about the woman that raised her, she was a very mean lady and probably would have killed me if I would have stayed with them.  Emma, the woman that raised my mom, really didn’t want me around at all.  I didn’t know anything about my birth mom till I was 29 years old.  We met on Halloween 1998.  It was one of the best days of my life.  I am so blessed to have such a great birth mom.  When we met, she thought I wanted to spit in her face for giving me up.  I let her know that was ridiculous.  I would never do a thing like that.  I know she was very young and couldn’t take care of me.  We have a very good relationship.  The bad part is that she lives 10 hours away from me.  That is driving hours.  I’m in Kansas City, Missouri and she is in Shreveport, Louisiana.  I have a half sister that is 6 years younger than me and she has 3 boys.  I miss them all very much.

If you ever want to know anything about how I found my birth mom, Debbie, just ask me.  I will answer any questions you might have. 

I am a very open person.  I have learned to be that way especially after being in a group of women reading a book called The Wounded Heart by Dan Allendar.  It is a group for Adults that have been sexually abused as children.  This group is not only for sexual abuse, but it helps with any abuse you may have endured as a child.  It really helped me with the physical and mental abuse I endured from my aunt growing up.  She resented me since I was born because she was no longer the baby of the family.  Then before she got married, her now husbands dad would grope me and fondle me any chance he got.  He did that from the time I was 8 till I was in my mid-teens.  Then when I would find out that he was coming over, I would stay at a friends house.  No one would believe me that he was that way.  So I would just stay away. 

So that is how my life was in a nutshell.  Life today is great.  I have a wonderful husband that loves me to pieces and we both don’t know what we would do if we didn’t have each other.