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Welcome to my website. My passion is to provide encouragement to those struggling after loss. Perhaps your pain is from a divorce, a loss of a job, betrayal of a close friend, chronic health problems, a strained relationship with a child, death of a close family member, or something else. I want to provide practical biblical help in your path to wholeness. It is easy to feel like you are all alone in your battle with grief. I want to assure you that you are not alone. I’ve been there too.
One of the reasons I’m passionate about encouraging others is because I know what it feels like to experience devastating loss. Over ten years ago, I lost my oldest son to suicide. Now I speak, coach, and counsel others so they can experience help and hope in their darkest moments.
My blog is a great tool to find practical help in your healing journey. I also offer a free 15- minute consultation to see if counseling or life coaching might be your next step. Please check out the speaker page for variety of speaking topics if you are planning a woman’s ministry event.
Always remember that there can be wholeness after brokenness.
I’ve been fearful during the last week as I’m sure many of you have been.
Not usually my style, I prayed this morning that God would show me what passage to read. When I opened my Bible, the page landed on Hebrews 11—the chapter on faith.
The verse that God impressed upon me was, “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.” (Hebrews 11:6)
As a Christian, one who has placed her trust in Jesus who died personally for my sins, I needed to exercise faith that God really is in charge. And that he will reward those of us who seek him in this current Corona crisis.
There are practical things most of us are doing which are being recommended—social distancing, handwashing, and sterilizing. But I’m not trusting in these strategies to get me through. When I try to place my faith in these things, I become anxious. It’s only when I’m trusting in God, that I am at peace. As his child, he promises to reward me for seeking him. I need to moment by moment not feed into the hysteria all around.
I received an email this morning from a godly retired missionary who has lived through her share of hair-raising adventures. She wrote, “The whole world is upside down, but I sometimes feel this is the tip of the iceberg . . .”
I agree.
As a Christian my concern goes well beyond the recent Corona crisis. My heart goes out to those who don’t know Jesus as their personal savior. I’m aware of enough biblical prophecy to know the direction the world is heading.
I don’t know how this crisis will end, but I do know how the ultimate story is ending. In the book of Revelation, we can read of severe judgment taking place on the earth before Jesus comes back again. This time he is coming back not to be killed and rise again, but to rule and reign.
But there is hope.
Friend, if you do not know Jesus as your personal savior I invite you to trust him today. It seems as though the second coming of Christ is right around the corner and then it will be too late.
When I was 21 years old, I received eternal life by trusting in the truth of these words:
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. (John 3:16-18)
You can trust that Jesus died for your sins right now while there is still time. When you do God promises to give you eternal life. I pray you make this decision for real hope in perilous times.
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