My life story, and how the Lord has directed my path

Jo Potter, 76, describes how God’s hand in her life – both the highs and the lows – taught her to have no fear for the future

I was born in Park Royal, West London, in 1947. My parents were both believers, my father an insurance manager, my mother a housewife and ex-professional dressmaker. We moved house many times because of my father’s work, but my childhood was secure and loving. I became a Christian myself in 1961, in response to the gospel message at church. (I’d been told to “open my heart to Jesus” when I was six, but said to my mum that my heart didn’t have a door.)