I have started this blog so I can attempt to fulfill God’s purpose for my life. My personal mission statement is: To move and encourage the broken toward healing in Christ through the power of my testimony. Here goes…



Rachel, age 3


Favorite Quotes
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
~ Helen Keller
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
~ Laozi
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
~ Christopher Columbus


My blog word cloud
abuse
Adolescence
broken
car wreck
coping
counseling
death
depression
despair
Dog
domestic violence
Eating
eating healthy
emotional pain
exhaustion
Family
Family tree
Father
Food
God
Graduate school
healing
Health
hope
hopeless
Jesus
joy
loss
loss of innocence
love
Lysa Terkeurst
marriage
Matthew West
memory
mental health therapy
music
MyFitnessPal
peace
Pet
poetry
psychological trauma
purpose
redemption
religion
Romance
sadness
Salvation
scripture
Sexual abuse
Social work
song lyrics
Steven Curtis Chapman
suicide
survivor
the Bible
tragedy
trust
waiting
weight loss


Helpful Websites
- National Child Traumatic Stress Network
- Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests (and other church leadership)
- The Hope of Survivors
- National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health
- Youth M.O.V.E. National
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study



My story is different then yours. But writing, sharing does help the healing. Just be encouraged there are other Christians out there who are reading and healing themselves.
Thanks for welcoming me to the blogging community. I look forward to providing hope and inspiration to others.