Good morning! Good evening! Good afternoon! Good lunch break! Good middle of the night! No matter when it is that you have found me, I pray the moment is good! For me it certainly is because I am meeting you here! And have this opportunity to introduce myself to you! I would love the chance to engage you often in what God is doing here and, in my life!
This blog has been a work in the making long before I ever knew about it. I truly believe that. And getting to this point has been a long and arduous journey that I hope to share with you. I pray you will join me as I identify the hand of God in my life and hopefully help you recognize His hand in your own.
There have been many stops and starts along the way and interruptions that I never planned for but through it all God would not let me lay this assignment aside and so I am truly excited that this time has finally come! Much of my life has been impressively jarring and often whiplash-inducing but filled with so much of God’s abundant grace and blessings too. As we meet together, I will reveal more and more of my story. My story, His glory!
As I’ve said I have a story to tell, and I fully believe that’s why God has you and me here today. I know without any doubt that the chapters of my story that have been written so far were placed in my path in order for me to help others and effect change. When I first began stepping into ministry and working on this blog, I had one focus. I am a survivor of narcissistic and emotional abuse that I lived in for over thirty-one years and I thought that was all I was supposed to share. But as I have been walking through my healing, I have realized that there are so many other components to who I am and what I have to say.
As I disclose more of my testimony you will also discover that I am the girl whose parents divorced when I was eight years old, was teased and bullied incessantly throughout her school years because of her weight and the fact that she stood up for her Christian faith, who was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at age eleven and had to undergo a life-saving surgery at the age of fifteen. A girl who married at the age of eighteen, had two children by the age of twenty-one, was a minister’s wife for a number of years, having to hide her abuse in each congregation of which she was a part. I am the woman who begged God for countless hours among many years for answers of what to do and who was released by God in June of 2023 and thereafter sought a divorce.
And now in 2024 I am also the woman who got remarried three months after her divorce because true love and being finally treated like a queen felt so good. After that decision I am the one who dealt with several consequences and circumstances that I never could have imagined. I am then the one who was forced to deal with the death of her best friend, her father, which then led to a second emotional breakdown and subsequent hospital stay for psychiatric care.
So, as you can see it has been a long and winding road to get to this moment in my life. And I am sure my life is not much different than the roads you’ve walked along. I just couldn’t be more elated that my road has led me here, talking to you. I have so much to say about who God is and who I believe He has made me to be. And I pray my story might help guide you to find the same. My own curvy trek is starting to straighten a little and at age 51 I am now seeing God’s new thing in my life more clearly.
I humbly invite you to join me here as we walk our different paths together. I am certainly no expert. I’ve just lived this life. And now that I’m free to “remember to forget” the horrors of my life, this blog will serve as a place to set aside the past and allow God to restore and rebuild what has been damaged. I would absolutely love for you to join me here as maybe there are some things you need to remember to forget too! God longs to do a new thing in your story!
Blessings, Lisa