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The Truth About Me

A week ago I was interviewed by Mary DeMuth. That was quite the experience and a first for me. Before the interview I tried to prepare but didn’t really know how to approach it. I made a list of the most important aspects of my past as it relates to my ministry. I’ve decided to share these with you.

PURPOSE

-To help the Silent Suffering who sit in every church, alone, unable to speak about their wounds.

-To share God’s love and how anyone can access his love.

MESSAGE

-Christ understands. Christ is the answer.

-God can heal our hurts. We must give them to him. We must yield ourselves to him. We must  seek God in order to know him.

-Look in the mirror first.

MY WOUNDS

-I was a good girl who loved God and followed him. I was obedient.

-When pain entered my life, I didn’t know what to do with it. I just kept going on, not knowing there were any answers.

-After twenty years of struggle, I came to the end of trying so hard.

-I couldn’t do it any longer. I gave up.

MY HEALING

-I asked God to change me. I told him I wanted to know him. (this was pivotal)

-I spent hours and hours seeking God and absorbing all he would give me.

-I invited God to heal my hurts. He brought them to mind, one by one.

-He healed me, layer by layer. By his stripes I was healed.

-The sorrow at heart left me. It has never returned.

-I fell in love with the Savior.

TODAY

-I speak and tell my story.

-I have a transformed life. God transformed it.

-I cultivated my relationship with God. This has been freeing.

-My story is on my blog. You can access it on the side bar.

BIO

-I am a Survivor: Of abandonment, infidelity by my mate, losing a sister to suicide, of a wounded heart.

-I am an Overcomer–with Jesus’ help.

-I am a Writer, have written one book, and blog on two blogs.

-I am a retired Teacher, reading specialist, and walnut farmer.

-I’m a Country Girl at heart.

-I’m an Active Messenger, I’ve been involved in church ministries all my life: teaching, music, directing, and leading.

-Most importantly, I am a lover of God, and a lover of his salvation message.

Loving God will change your life.
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Awakening

My spiritual journey is an honest one at least as much as is possible within me. I am a seeker of God and a follower of his way. God has healed me and renewed me. My life is changed because of God, and I owe him a debt of gratitude.

Father God blesses me at his table of grace and fills me with his ever-deepening love. I have received God’s unmerited favor. I experience his unadulterated peace and holy presence. To be God’s child is lovely beyond loveliness. I find myself safe and secure in my Father’s house.

I have had to look at what I believe and sort through a lot of it. The truths found in the Bible shaped my thinking. Some doctrines strike me as absolutes that do not bend or alter for true Christ followers. They are the foundation on which the church has built its belief. Most or all of these tenants establish the Church’s theological backbone.

These constitute Christianity’s common core beliefs, the structures on which the biblical mandates are formed and erected, the absolutes that are ‘must haves’ according to the Word of God. Christianity is centered and built on the authority of the Bible and the divinely inspired words of its text. Without these as central, core beliefs, the bible is little more than a good book.

*Excerpt from my upcoming book, written at the Vina Monastery, Abbey of New Clairvaux, a Trappist, Cistercian monastery.

I’m not settled on a book title yet but am narrowed down to two at the present time.

  1. THE CHURCH REVISITED: A Contemplative Montage: Moments with God at Vina Monastery: In search of authentic Christianity across the Church divide.

2. THE GOLDEN SILENCE: Moments with God at Vina Monastery: In search of authentic Christianity across the Church divide.