I am a 6ft 7 woman, people look at me but I take it as an opportunity for Evangelism

Naomi Lovell shares how she uses her height to get conversations going about Jesus.

I grew tall fast. This has had benefits – at school, although I had dyspraxia (poor hand and eye coordination) I was always picked for netball, because I intimidated the opposing team with my height. My family are slightly above average height – Mum is 5ft6, Dad 6ft2 and my two older sisters are 5ft7 and 5ft10, but I’m still head and shoulders above them all at 6ft7. My family recognized quite early on that I was always going to be tall and we embraced it.

But growing up tall has had it’s down sides, I felt that adults judged my age by my height and when I played with friends my own age they made comments that I shouldn’t be so childish. People expected me to behave older than I was. This made me feel sad at times and I felt I missed out on my childhood. Once when I was ten, Mum and I were in Sainsbury’s. I was wearing an orange coat and a customer approached me asking me for directions. At ten years old I was 5ft3.