Adrienne Johnson pursued a life filled with sex and love, and yet she was unsatisfied with her life. Things started to change when she had an encounter with God while watching a Broadway show.
The party girl
The only thing that Adrienne cared about as a young girl was to be happy. That’s why when she was 12 years old, she started smoking and drinking to keep up with her identity as part of the “in” crowd. By 14, she was already exploring sex, and even after doing all those things, she didn’t have any kind of conviction or guilt.
Through junior high and high school, she was known as the “party girl” and she embraced it because of the attention it brought her. She was jumping from one relationship to another thinking she was finding satisfaction to fill her emptiness.
By the time she was in college, Adrienne, who claimed to be an atheist, no longer found enjoyment in parties. She moved on to philosophy and intellectual pursuits in the hopes of finding happiness and meaning. While she no longer partied, she was still having one-night stands with different men. She was addicted to it, and it didn’t matter who she hurt to get it. All she wanted was to be happy but somehow nothing could fill up the void in her heart.
Finding satisfaction
Still feeling empty, Adrienne went on to grad school hoping that further intellectual pursuits would satisfy her. She looked for satisfaction in many things like doing well in school, being successful, and focusing on her looks. But all of those things failed her, and she ended up depressed for the first time in her life. She sought for treatments like counseling and antidepressants but nothing helped.
Then in 2007, she got married to a fellow grad student. She thought marriage would make her happy, but it was still the same old unfulfilling thing, so she looked for an easy fix. She called her ex-boyfriend and began an affair. She knew the consequence of her action, but she didn’t care. By 2010, her marriage was over.
Asking for help
At this point, Adrienne was just fed up with her lifestyle that led to nothing but destruction and unhappiness. She needed to do something different, so she joined a support group for sex and love addicts. She followed the program and started believing in a higher power. She tried Buddhist chanting and Kundalini yoga, and even went to a synagogue and a church. This took her from being an atheist to agnostic.
Meeting God at a play
Adrienne made some progress with her addiction after a year of her spiritual journey, but there was still something missing in her life. Then one day, her friend invited her to watch a play based on Christian author C.S. Lewis’ satirical book “The Screwtape Letters.”
The play made such a deep impact on Adrienne’s life that she started to consider Christianity. She went home and did some reading on Christ’s life through the gospels. Soon, she started going to church and made some Christian friends. Since then, her life has never been the same. In spring of 2012, she surrendered her life to Jesus.
A year later, she met Brent at a bible study and shortly after, they got married. From formerly doing one-night stands, Adrienne and Brent waited until their wedding night to get intimate. God delivered her from lustfulness and all things worldly in her past. Today, she is devoted to her family and aside from them, her most important relationship is with Jesus Christ.
