Meet Leah Pilcher: Writer, Blogger, Model, and
Soul-winner for Christ!
Submitted by Lama Leah
COVER STORY
My story is nothing ordinary or extraordinary. I thank God for every clear blessing and every hardship that was disguised as a gift. Looking back into the past, there were many times that I should have died but God had bigger plans for me.
February 24, 1998 at St. Francis hospital in Wichita, Kansas is when this fight started. My mother had complications when she was giving birth to me. I was premature and was without oxygen for several hours after I was born. My Father called every church member that was listed in the Church directory and I had an entire community praying for my survival, and miraculously, I made it out of the hospital alive and healthy. From the start I was a little fighter, but I did not always maintain the strength needed to win the battle.
I had a rough start but that was just the beginning. When I was a little girl, both of my parents worked. So, during the day, I was left in a family member’s care. I hope for most Christian families, this would be an ideal situation, but for my family it was not. When my parents were away, my main caregivers knew the truth of Christ but were not living it and certainly were not fit to watch young children. I went through years of emotional abuse and
borderline abandonment with my caregivers. My earliest memory of that babysitter was being in a large house that was physically dark, with lots of windows but the curtains were covering every single one of the windows. No lights were on even though it was the middle of the afternoon. When I asked if I could play in the light, my caregiver told me that I wasn’t worthy of the lights being turned on for me. For this individual, it was not a money issue that the lights couldn't be turned on, but a control issue.
".... it was not a money issue ... but a control issue."
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