Who Am I?

Recently I joined an internet site called Substack. So the Lord led me to give a brief summary of my life to introduce myself to people who do not know me. Those who know me already probably know all of this, but I am sharing it across all platforms in case God has someone else intended to read this:

Who Am I?

Me? I was born Susan Jane Thorn on December 31, 1949, at 6:10 p.m. in Akron City Hospital, in Akron, Ohio, USA. My parents were also natives of Akron, Ohio, both born in 1914 and were married in 1945, two months following the end of WW2. I was brought up attending the gatherings of the church on Brown Street, in Akron, affiliated with the Christian & Missionary Alliance. Other than my Aunt Betty’s house, the church gatherings were my home away from home, which I dearly loved. I loved the teachings of the Scriptures and learning all I could about Jesus Christ. And my heart’s desire from early on in my life was to go wherever God sent me to do his will.

At about age 7, I was at camp at Beulah Beach in Vermillion, Ohio, on Lake Erie, and I was sitting on a hard camp bench listening to the minister preach the gospel and to give an invitation to repent of my sins and to follow Jesus with my life, which I did. I sat there with tears streaming down my cheeks, fully aware of my sins, and with a strong desire to have those sins removed from my life so I could follow Jesus with my life. Now, I was a child, and I was not perfect, but I was also not rebellious. I was raised by an abusive father and by my mother, as good as she was, who was largely emotionally distant. So I cried a lot, and I prayed much for God to help me to do right.

I had two older brothers and two younger sisters, and one of my brothers and one of my sisters have since left this world. And in the 22.5 years that I lived with my parents we lived in 11 different houses, all but one of which I have memories of. And all 53.5 years that I have lived with my husband we have lived in 19 residences in 5 states and in 10 cities. So, I am now living in my 30th residence in my 76 years of life. And in my childhood I attended 3 different elementary schools, 2 junior high schools, and one high school, all in Akron, Ohio, plus I was a music major at the University of Akron. And that is where I met my husband to be, Rick Love, who I married in 1972.

And in the 53 years since my husband and I have been married we have birthed 4 children, and have gained 4 children-in-law, 14 grandchildren, 2 grandsons-in-law, and 2 great-granddaughters. And most of them live not far from us at all and so we are able to see them somewhat frequently, which is a blessing, indeed. We are a close family, and so we have much to be grateful for to God. We are not a perfect family, though. All of us have made mistakes, and some of us worse errors than others. But I am very thankful to God that, when I fell, he was there to pick me back up, to put me back on my feet, and to give me a new voice with a new task before me.

In 2004 the Lord called me to write down what he teaches me from my times spent with him each day in his word and to post these writings on the internet. So that is what I have been doing almost 22 years now, and full-time for 20 years. And then he added on song writing and poetry and video talk devotions and Christian memes, and a few short testimonial books, too. And none of this I had done before with the exception of a few poems early on in my life and me teaching the Scriptures beginning at age 16, first to children, then to youth, then to women, with some gaps here or there, and now on the internet for the people of the world to read. All glory to God!

That is a summary of my life here on this earth.

Sue J Love, Christ’s Free Servant