Godly Girl Blog

Hello, everyone! My name is Natalie, I’m fifteen and I love the Lord! As a teen, I know how hard it can be to live a godly life when you just want everyone to accept you, so I am starting this blog to help! I will say, there is no way everyone will like you. People are going to judge you for your faith. But, it’s all worth it because, no matter what, God will accept you and He will be proud of you for your determination, and other people will accept you. You just need to find them. Anyway, this blog is for teenage girls who want to grow up to be a Proverbs 31 woman. For this first post, I will give a short preview of what this will look like, then I’ll share how I came to know the Lord.

What this blog will look like…

My vision for this blog is to help girls by sharing things I’ve learned in my journey. I like to read, so every once in a while I might give good, clean book recommendations. I also love fashion, so I will provide advice to help you with modesty and good places to shop. I will be posting every Friday!

One of the reasons I wanted to start this blog was that I am tired of finding Christian influencers who make it sound like God doesn’t love you when you don’t work out regularly or women who talk about natural beauty and staying true to who you are, but they go walking around wearing pounds of makeup, influencing us to do the same. I’m not against makeup or working out; I just think you don’t have to be so strict about it.

I am also here if anyone needs advice, prayers, or just a person to talk to. You can email me at godlygirlblog2@gmail.com.

I want you to know that I am still young, so I will still make mistakes. I just ask that, when I do, you show me the grace we all deserve.

My testimony…

I’ve grown up in a Christian home. I have Christian parents, grandparents, etc. My last year in elementary school I was on my way to being like all the other girls. I was becoming popular in the wrong crowd, I started hanging out with people who didn’t honor God. But, the first year of middle school my mom started homeschooling my sisters and I. That was, of course, a big change. I enjoyed it and we all got a routine back; it wasn’t easy, but we did it.

When I turned 13, all my feelings changed. I no longer enjoyed being home all the time; it felt more like a cage. I felt like I didn’t have anybody to hang out with or talk to. I would constantly be afraid to go to sleep because that’s when the attacks from the devil would start. That’s when the lies that I believed came to me. I would stay up until 12 or 1 in the morning, getting myself more tired so I could fall asleep immediately. In the morning, when my alarm would go off, I would think, “What’s the point? No one will notice if I stay in bed all day.”

I told my parents about it. Only the top layer, though. I kept the deep stuff to myself. Next thing I knew, I was on antidepressants (I like to call them my happy pills) and I was seeing a counselor weekly.

One night, the attacks of the devil were hitting hard. I was in a battle for my mind. I was walking around my room, trying to stop the lies, to quiet the voices. I was praying, begging, God would take them away.

That night I realized, I needed to pick a side. I either chose God or the lies. I made the decision to choose God and that night, I surrendered to the Lord. I surrendered to Him before that, but I was, like, 5 and I only did it because that’s what everyone was doing so, of course, I had to. This time, it was real.

I told God I needed help to fight my mental battle and He came to my rescue. Swooping in like my knight in shining armor, He shut the lies off and gave me the truths. I was never alone. I was just lost and I needed to find the One who could help me find my path and guide me along it.

Fast forward to August of 2024, I was as close to God as could be, I had really started hanging out with girls I pushed away during my depression, I wasn’t seeing my counselor anymore, and I was getting baptized. It felt wonderful. Nothing could stop me.

Until about one or two months later.

I started feeling sick a lot. My stomach was hurting, I had no appetite, I was always tired, and I was losing weight slowly. I went to the doctor and they took blood tests. A few days later, I found out something was off with my thyroid.

The doctor decided to get my thyroid back on track by changing my diet. I got a list of foods I couldn’t eat. Corn, soy, wheat, dairy, walnut, peanut, egg whites, and sesame. I went from eating whatever I wanted, to checking ingredient labels on everything, except fruits and vegetables.

That caused some major anxiety. I all the sudden had to worry about what I was going to eat when I went out with family or friends. I stopped doing fun things, so I could avoid food.

My parents were very helpful. My mom had already experienced lots of allergies when my sister was a baby, so it was all easy for her. My mom and I went shopping, and we found some foods I could have; she did research and found different fast food places I could eat at (In-N-Out became my bestie), and she made dinners I could have.

I was still very anxious about things. I would stress days, even weeks, in advance about something I had planned that involved food.

I went back to seeing my counselor and I started trusting God with my anxieties because, like it says in the Bible, what does worrying really do?

Does it help me sleep? No. Does it make things work out? Definitely not. So, why should I worry? The answer is, I shouldn’t. It’s pointless.

I still stress about things, but I trust God with it all.I have changed so much from the girl I used to be in elementary school.

All the glory goes to God.

Now, I have knocked soy and peanuts off my list of allergies and I have found more places and food I can eat at.

I still struggle with little things here and there, but through all of it, God has been by my side. And I know I will face many more battles in my life, but I have faith that God will face them with me.

Final thoughts…

Well, I hope you enjoyed my first blog and that you look forward to the next! I will be praying for all you and I hope that this blog can influence you in a way you need it to! ❤

"Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me." 
Psalm 23:4