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On April 16th 1984, a boy named Shane Byrd was born. I had a hard time coming into this world because I stopped breathing because the unbilical cold was wrapped around my neck and it caused me to stop breathing. I died because it cut off my oxygen to my brain. My Grandma started praying along with everyone else. God heard the cry out his people and answered our prayer so was born that day. They had to take me another hospital. To get me stabilized I stayed in the hospital until I was able to come home from hospital. When I was growing as a baby my family knew that something was wrong with me. So they told me to different hospitals. Different doctors and they finally told me family what was matter with me. The doctor said I was born crippled with cerebral palsy to where I can’t walk like other people can and I won’t be able to talk that I was a sick child. I had to start having surgery on my legs to fix them. I had surgery after surgery on my legs and was in and out the hospital. I had to use a walker to walk with and a wheelchair because I got tired real easy. I’ve never been sick in my life like the doctor said I would be thanks be to the Lord. I started talking and I talk like other people do. I would get in the prayer line and the pastors and preachers and evangelist would pray over me and my Body and legs. After they prayed for me weeks and months after and later I started walking a little with my family’s help - holding my hand and hands and than I started walking on my own by myself. I started sing in churches at the age of 8 for the Lord, and telling others what God as done for me. I started going to school and it wasn’t easy because I couldn’t read good I trouble with my reading I also couldn’t spell good at all I had trouble spelling and I couldn’t do math and numbers in school so they put me in special ed class. I made it through the school year I graduated 8th grade. It was hard for me in school but I made it with the help of the Lord. I didn’t finish school and I didn’t go on to high school my school year because I had to have another surgery on my legs.

I was in the hospital layed up having for months doing physical therapy on my legs. Yes, it took a whole year to start walking again. I was home schooled and I learned alot. I turned 18 years old I just quit school because it was hard for me just because I have problems reading and spelling and writing and math and handling money, even today. It so hard for me to get out go places and do things because I have trouble getting dressed and putting on my clothes but with the Lord's help I can do it, thank you Lord. Also I have trouble walking I got use my walker when to the store and when I go to big places I gotta take my wheelchair because of my legs get tired from all the walking. I love going places and getting out. I love going church and visiting other churches so I hope you understand why I sing in church and why I love singing for the Lord. I want to try to help with the songs I sing in church tell people that I am a miracle from God and if I can make it so can you, with the Lord's help - like the song I sing in church and other churches - "I can’t even walk without you holding my hand, Lord."

June 23, 2015 is a day I will never forget. When me and my family God the sad awful bad news about my cousin Natasha Turner Clem who passed away suddenly it was hard on me and my whole family. During this time I didn’t know what to do I couldn’t pray sometime because I was very close to my cousin. I was with her night before she got sick and rushed to the hospital. We did a lot of things together. I watched her get saved in church and get baptised. The Lord answered her prayer too before she passed. She was praying for a long time for a child and the Lord gaver her a baby girl. It was a miracle from the Lord. Me and cousin rode to church a lot together in the car. Going to church every time the doors where open and everything. I had a hard time during with her loss. No one there to help me with what I was going through. I cried myself to sleep every night. One day I was listening to a song that I had on cd in my house the title of the song is called "Anchored in Jesus" written by Josh Bowman. When I start playing this song I felt like the song was for me because every word in it was talking about how I was feeling and what I was going through. Sometime it just take a song to help you get through a loss of a love one yes I got my break though and I got victory to where I didn’t know what was going to happen to me later.

At my home church they redid the stage. They got it finished and we had church. One night when I singing when we had a great service. God uses me in a different way in my songs. The Lord took my singing to a whole new level and yes, He made me stronger. Sometimes it takes a mountain and a storm in your life to make you better. Stronger yes, I like the song say through it all I’ve learned to rest in Jesus, lean into God. That’s what I had to do. 

I pray this helped you to where you can make it through your storms in your life 

God bless you 

Shane Byrd