There's a J In there… Somewhere!

In a group I’m in, someone posted a link to an article ‘How should a Christian view ADD and ADHD?’

I grew up Christian. My parents were missionaries. I’ve been a member of churches of various denominations my whole life, apart from the last few year.

Here’s my take on being AuDHD and a Christian. It’s simple.

I am fearfully and wonderfully made!

God made me, just as he made everyone else. One message I got growing up is that God has a plan, even if we don’t understand it, and we are all wonderfully made.

I was also brought up to question the Bible and interpretations of it. To look at the Bible critically and look at things like the context it was written and who it was speaking to.

So many of the articles above come across as judgemental and not helpful (other than the fact that there is no date and the use of ADD is out dated). They look at the usual things that we already beat ourselves up about, instead of looking at the fact that God made us and made us special and perfect just the way we are.

I know that I struggle to believe this myself at times, decades of messages telling me that I’ve fallen short is hard to shake, but it still comes down to the fact that my brain is wired to to be AuDHD, and it has been since before I was born, and that is simply part of who I am, who I was made to be.

There are so many verses about how we are wonderfully made, how God made us who we are while we were in our mothers’ womb, about how we are created in the image of God. Those are the verses I hold on to.

I am fearfully and wonderfully made. While I was still in the womb, God knew me and made me precious. AuDHD and all.