Name: Sharon Paige
Age: 24
Nationality: Italian American.
Current location: Italy
Status: Married, mother of 4

There’s only one life t’will soon be past.
Only what’s done for Christ will last!

That’s always been one of my favourite quotes ever, and my motivation to keep going for Jesus no matter what. I hate wasting time much less my life, so if I know that only what’s done for Jesus is what lasts, well then that’s what I’ll spend my life and time doing. And you shouldn’t waste your time and life wasting ours, when we’re trying to make the most out of our lives for the Lord, with all the hardships that come along the way.

Yes there are hardships in our lifestyle, but there’s probably more out there, no one there wears a smile 24/7, most people complain because of this and that, they live in fear and unhappy most of the time. We instead have everything we need, live in a very secure environment both for our kids and for ourselves. So I certainly can’t complain for the few hardships that come along which in comparison is like dust.

I have 4 kids, and my greatest fear in life is anything that has to do with them that could hurt or harm them in any way, whether it is physical or emotional. So I do my best and the Family at large does its best for our kids to protect them and create a loving and good environment for them to grow up in. The thing that makes me sick to my stomach is to hear of all the stories against us of “child abuse,” when the biggest abuse that the Family kids have had to endure were all the raids and pre-dawn break-ins. Taking kids away from parents in such a harsh way, some didn’t see their parents for months in a row because of these accusations, and that’s when the kids suffered in my opinion.

I didn’t grow up in the Family as my parents left shortly after I was born. Nevertheless I did get sexually abused (and not just from one person.) from the age of 6 till 13 when finally my parents decided to rejoin the Family—so much for “safe environment.” When I grew up I had 2 choices to make.
1.) I move on and I don’t let that affect me, forgive and forget and leave the past behind, or
2.) Get “traumatised” and spend my years blaming the people in the past for what they did to me and seriously wasting my life trying to “make justice.”

It is a choice, for me honestly though I would hate something like that happening to my daughters, it did not affect me that much at all, I forgave all those people, after all they’re going to give account of their actions before the Lord one day, so I’m not worried about that. I didn’t even sue them and I could have very easily but I didn’t think it was necessary, the Lord will take care of it, and He has, He certainly did not need my help.

Well all that to say, I chose to join the Family at the age of 13, because I knew by their fruits that it was my dream place to be. I said to myself that I was willing to sleep in the bathroom and do everything they wanted me to do, as long as they’d let me be with them. Thankfully I didn’t need to go to those lengths as they accepted me and my family with open arms. For me it was like stepping into Paradise the first day I got there, I still remember the emotion I was feeling. Everyone from the youngest to the oldest were so loving and caring they made me feel so loved and at home. (Didn’t know about anybody there being sexually abused, all we knew was that if anyone would dare do anything at all they would be excommunicated instantly.) For me it was a dream come true.

And now that I’ve been here for 11 years, still feel the same way, “there’s no place like home” (the Family) I wouldn’t give it up for anything in the world. And for sure not because of someone like you who has nothing better to do than try to snatch my faith away. Actually all this has made my convictions stronger and made me want to hang on to what I have here in the Family all the more.

Don’t come and tell me that our kids are suffering or that this is not a good place to grow them up in, as compared to any, and I mean ANY other kid I’ve met in the world … they have the best of all. We may not have all the riches of the world but nobody has them either, and those who have them are in a worse state emotionally than the poor ones who don’t have them. But we sure have Jesus and faith, and love and everything we need, and more. And we are happy and the kids are happy and well trained… and if someone is not happy, well they have the free choice to go out and find something else that makes them happy.

I would so much love to see your faces and see if YOU are truly happy. Does this life you chose give you happiness? Is it all you ever dreamed for? Does it make you a better person?? I doubt it! Maybe you’re happy by not being a “better” person but by being a “bad” person, well then don’t come and blame us for being the “bad” ones.

Remember, you can run away from it here, but in the life to come when you will face our Lord, you won’t be able to run away anymore and hide behind the lies you have made. And any smart person can comprehend that it is only that, LIES!

And to all of us that are still marching strong…. LET’S KEEP GOING FOR GOD!!!