So it’s a very long story but essentially I come from a non Christian home and had very little exposure to Christianity. I did go to a technically Christian primary school so we prayed in assembly but it wasn’t like weekly church attendance level. When I went to high school I met my first real Christian friend who began to tell me Bible stories and at some point I started believing them and so I fully realised I believed in God in December of 2021. I kind of drifted for a few months because I was 12 and had no clue what I was doing but then I started going to church with the same friend who exposed me to God until January 2024. I had had previously struggles with anxiety but they had gotten better until this moment in church when I just had a panic attack and I couldn’t bring myself to go back (it’s some kind of self defence mechanism where my brain overly associates certain things or places with certain actions and church then became a place of anxiety and a difficult place to go). My mental health kind of kept getting worse and then it got a little bit better but I was still very much in the trenches with anxiety. So from that point on I wasn’t going to church and kind of drifted again. I was reading my Bible and praying but also battling lust and, of course, my mental health and then in June 2024 2 things happened: my mum got cancer and my brother came out as transgender. My mum is totally okay now, they caught it super early, all thanks to God, so she had a few rounds of radiotherapy and is now healthy. However it wasn’t so simple with my brother. My parents are supportive of it and it then moment where I found out I didn’t really feel like I could say I wasn’t okay with it. It felt like 3 against 1 and like if I said I wasn’t okay with it then I would have to give a long, detailed explanation for why and I didn’t have those answers at the time, I just knew it wasn’t right, and also like my family would tear apart slightly and that would forever be my fault so I just said I was okay with it. Honestly I’m just waiting for the day when I can leave for university, move out and it be okay if my brother hates me because we won’t be seeing each other everyday anymore. In the later part of 2024 I also discovered that I’m autistic and very likely OCD which explained a lot and I think was an opening for me to grow closer to God and explore these things that had always fascinated me from a Christian point of view and really just ask God endless, fairly meaninglessness questions but fun ones (at least to me). It’s one of my interpretations of Jesus saying we should have faith like children who are famed for their endless ‘why….?’ questions lol. Currently I’m closer to God than I’ve ever been, my mental health is better, my understanding of myself is better, my understanding of Christianity and the world as a whole is better. Part of it is just that I’ve grown up but part of it definitely is God working in my life and I’m learning to discern His voice and what He’s teaching me and He has taught me a lot. I don’t know what’s going to happen next or when but I’m trusting God with that and just focusing on what I can do now to strengthen my relationship with Him and worship and honour Him.

That sounds awesome! It's amazing you kept going even though you felt low energy, it can be a real struggle. When I feel like that and I need to study for exams I promise myself that I only need to do the absolute bare minimum and then I can stop because it helps get momentum started and often I do a bit more than the bare minimum which is great. Do you have any other tips for working with low energy?