The Pain from my Past is Gone.

The party scene, drugs and bad relationships left Melody confused and broken in her 20s. Then her sister told her the secret to freedom from heavy burdens. She’s learned redemption looks like the pain of your past losing its sting.

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I just I had this hope arise in my heart and I was so burdened just the horrible feeling like my life is like really a mess and I am so not happy and she said you can lay them at the feet of Jesus. So I’m Melody Rinker and I’ve lived in Eugene, Oregon for about 16 years. Before that I was raised in Hawaii where I lived and grew up in an awesome family. When I was growing up in the 50s there was a lot of kind of false ideas that drugs could help you get to where you wanted to be spiritually. There were a lot of things influences that that generation my generation wanted more of because we were searching. I think it was a searching generation and we were looking in the wrong places.

My early 20s I decided that I was going to move from Oahu to Kauai because I always felt from kind of a teenage age something significant could happen for me on Kauai. It was this beautiful gorgeous place that my family would go to and I always felt like there’s an answer there. So I went there and the drugs and the bad relationship only got worse. A few months after being there my sister Debbie came to visit me there and she told me she started talking to me and she said I’m going to go to Kauai. I said I’m talking about Jesus in a personal way and she said D you can lay your life down your burdens down at the feet of Jesus and she made it so real.

I just I had this hope arise in my heart and I was so burdened with the sin and the the abuse and just the the horrible feeling like my life is like really a mess and I am so not happy and she said like all those burdens she said you can lay them at the feet of Jesus. So when I went down on the beach and I did that and I I said Jesus I said those words Jesus I’m laying my burdens at your feet. I really felt like he took them like he took that load off with me and I felt peace and lighter and immediately had no desire for any of the things that I’d had the desire for before I met him.

I think Jesus being my redeemer to me means that even though I did make mistakes and hurt myself and other people in that process and I did have to suffer some of the consequences of it I feel like he wiped away a lot of the pain of that. He made it so that I didn’t I don’t feel condemned and like I have to live into those painful places anymore that he’s actually taken something negative that I did and made it into something positive for him. God always has an invitation for us that every day I feel like he’s inviting me into a deeper place with him a deeper conversation a deeper relationship and I I know that every day in my life I feel his love and I’m very thankful for that.

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Local stories. Real hope in the Central Lane County community. These are the stories of people in the greater Eugene and Springfield, Oregon community who have experienced Jesus Christ change their lives. Their stories prove Christianity is more than religion and that it's possible to change your life. There is hope when you are hopeless, lack purpose or motivation, struggling with anxiety and depression, or just know there has to be more than life than this. We hope these stories show you that Jesus is alive, loving and willing to meet anyone who cries out to Him.

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