From Prodigal to Progressive: Surviving Hurricanes

<p>My Faith Journey - Part 2</p> <p><a href="https://giselleaguiar.wordpress.com/2019/08/30/seeking-truth-love-and-surviving-college-my-story-part-1/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"><strong>In part 1 of my testimony,</strong></a> I had survived college and was living the good life working on a cruise &nbsp;ship and God had answered my prayer in finding a new boss. Here’s the &nbsp;next major stage of my life as God continues to guide me in the right &nbsp;direction, but I stubbornly try to do things my way and listen to “false &nbsp;prophets.”</p> <p>I ended up working for three years on several cruise ships in various &nbsp;different jobs. Besides hopping to just about every island in the Caribbean, I &nbsp;visited Venezuela, Columbia, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico. Did 3 &nbsp;trans-canal cruises and 2 summers in Alaska out of Vancouver. I also &nbsp;visited Seattle and Long Beach, CA.</p> <p>After a while, I got tired of living like a gypsy and I wanted to &nbsp;settle down. I knew that I didn’t want to live in Puerto Rico soI &nbsp;decided to move to Miami. A friend of mine from the ship was living &nbsp;there and she was willing to let me stay with her for a few days until I &nbsp;found a place to live.</p> <p>I also wanted to find a church and start working my way back to God. I &nbsp;stayed a few weeks in Puerto Rico with my parents as I planned my &nbsp;one-way trip to Miami. I started watching Christian TV shows and I &nbsp;started reading the Bible.</p> <p>Now, we didn’t have a regular Bible in our home — we had one of those &nbsp;huge family Bibles that I think must’ve weighed about 50 pounds. It was &nbsp;the only thing I had so I started reading it. It was a King James in the &nbsp;old English — that was interesting. And I had no idea what I was &nbsp;reading.</p> <p>So when I moved to Miami I started church shopping. I knew nothing &nbsp;about the different denominations who they followed or believed in. The &nbsp;first church I went to was the one where my landlady went to. I was &nbsp;rent