My name is Calee. I stay South Africa. I live together with my loving Husband and my Grandmother. For three generations now, my family have been serving God in various capacities.

I grew up with an absent father in my life. My Mother and my Grandmother brought me up. This has always been a struggle within myself for a very long time and I questioned God about it a lot. Today I say thank you to our Merciful God, that He walked every step of the way with me, and that He brought out the beauty in my storm, He was my Father all the time, and I will choose Him every day and always. My Grandmother and Mother always made a point to speak to me about God and making Him the centre of my life, and today I want to thank them for this, I am so grateful. I also got to see my earthly father 3 times in my life, first time was when I was 9 years old, the second time I was 14 years old and the third time I was 19 years old. We have kept in touch through Facebook, as he lives in Canada. I also have 3 siblings on my father’s side in Canada, which I have met on Facebook and I hope and pray that I will get to meet them physically one day.

My Mother got married for the first time when I turned 16 years old, and 2 years later my mother and stepfather had my baby brother, who is very close to my heart and love so dearly.

In 2006 I met the love of my life (Ben), we got married in 2012. Today I am so grateful to God for my amazing husband, as he has been my pillar and support in every way, he is a gift from God, and I am so blessed with him in my life.

Being brought up in this Godly environment and with a Godly heritage, has been something special to me, and out of this background came a desire within me for more of God.

In 2018 we found out with a shock that my mother had cancer, and at work one day feeling so down and heartbroken, one of my co-workers came up to me and asked why I was so down, so I told her about my mom, she then asked me whether I have ever heard about the poem “Footprints in the sand”, I told her that I have never heard it before and she told me the story, I was so deeply touched. Later that year my mother sadly passed on, this was a very dark, unstable and sad time in our family’s life, as we never expected something like this would happen. My brother is still very young, and he needs a mother figure in his life, my stepfather went through a lot of difficulties and couldn’t deal with the pain and loss, he ended up in hospital, because his heart was broken. My Grandmother was deeply hurt, as she expected death would happen “the other way around”. We realised my mother was a lot more than just a mother she was our pillar, hero and love every time we needed it, she was a helping hand for the needy, and she always put herself last and made friends with everyone. Praying and holding onto God, still today is all that kept us going. Psalm 147:3 – Blessed are those who mourn,” Jesus said, “for they shall be comforted.” It’s true. Psalm 147:3 says, “He heals the broken hearted, and bind up their wounds.

Through all the difficulties many people were drawn to what was happening, and I started to realise that God has a purpose for all of this.

My first deep encounter with Jesus Christ my Saviour was at a Christian Camp. It was late at night and we had to walk far up a hill, but before then we had to go to our rooms and dress warm for the walk. While I was busy blow drying my hair, my back went into a spasm, so painful that I struggled to walk, but God knew what was my heart’s desires, and my heart’s desire was to start getting to know Him more intimately, even without saying anything to Him in so many words. So, I started praying and asked God: “Why is this happening, if You know my heart’s desire, to get to know You more intimately”. Further that night we started walking, and it was still far, the pain in my back worsened. I prayed all the way to the top of the hill. As we reached the top of the hill, I saw a huge burning cross, crying with relief, immediately my pain was gone, and I knew God wanted me to walk all that way to tell me, that He is my only Father and Saviour and that He loves me so much (Proverbs 3:15 – She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her.). I was so overwhelmed by His presence.