Molly’s Story

I was born in San Francisco in 1968. both of my “hippie” parents were deceived by new age spirituality, the sexual revolution, and feminist ideology. By the time I was one year old, my college professor father had left my mother, my 3 sisters, and myself, to move in with his girlfriend (one of his students). My mother became a feminist career woman. Both of my parents had been raised with very little knowledge of Jesus and the Bible. Having a spiritual vacuum they both sought out something to answer life’s questions. My dad and his girlfriend became involved with spiritualism and exposed my sisters and me to seances, ouija boards, and channeled material. Through them I was taught that there is no such thing as sin and we will all go back to the “light” when we die. My mother became a Unitarian Universalist where I was taught that Jesus was just a good man dan I could choose any religion that felt right to me. I left home at age 16 because of extreme dysfunction in our home.

Throughout my adult life, I clung, with a co-dependent fervor, to very unhealthy relationships with men. By age 41 I was a single mother with 5 kids by 3 different men. I also had had 1 abortion and 3 miscarriages by that time. I homesteaded, home-birthed, and homeschooled my children and was a relatively dedicated mother. I still, however, had a proclivity to jump from one bad relationship to another with men incapable of being either a dependable husband or father. For decades I immersed myself in self-help techniques and taught new-age healing modalities. Eventually I realized it was all in vain.

I continued seeking in the hope of understanding what the purpose of life is and what happens to us when we die. I met many sweet Christian families in our homeschool group. I was always surprised at how kind these families were, but I could not understand how they could believe the silly fairytale about “Jesus dying for our sins”. Eventually one Christian mother, whom I greatly respected, asked me if I had ever read the Bible for myself. I was embarrassed to realized that I had never even considered it. I had thought the Bible was a tool of oppression and not worth my time. I took up the challenge to read it for myself and I was only partly through the Gospel of John when I was shocked to discover that Jesus was real! He revealed himself to me and suddenly my life was turned upside down. I became a voracious student of the Bible, gave my life to Jesus, experienced healing and deliverance, was baptized and became a part of the body of Christ eager to serve my King. In 2022 I began working for PreBorn! and they required me to go through the Forgiven and Set Free post-abortion Bible study and I was surprised at the deeper healing and freedom the Lord had for me. I am so grateful to be able to share truth and love with women who have also been brokenhearted and held captive as I was.

Jesus has come to make us all free! Luke 4:18