Ashleigh Lankford If you had talked to me on July 1, 2015, I would have had stars in my eyes; I was over the moon. A little nauseous, but even so, our hearts were full. My husband and I had two little girls, then 4 and almost 2 years old. I was 12 weeks pregnant …
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FINDING PURPOSE IN THE WHY
Ginger ReynoldsMy story started when my 13 year old daughter, Tayler, passed away in 2009. She was my “mini me” – my life – the very reason I woke up each day. Not God. Not my husband, or my son, but Tayler. After 4 months of limping, 4 doctors, numerous tests to figure out what …
LEARNING TO LOVE AFTER BETRAYAL
Amanda Buccola “As much as I love God, you, Graham, and our unborn child, I loved myself more…I know that revealing this blackness inside of me is necessary…but I understand that in confessing this, the blackness and burden is now also felt by you.” Those words and many more were read to me one Tuesday …
THE GRADUAL SLOPE TO ROCK BOTTOM
Nick Buccola My story of redemption began in March 2014 when I reached my rock bottom. I did something I never thought I was capable of doing. But my way to rock bottom wasn’t by jumping off a cliff and hitting it hard. It was a long, slow road that gradually went deeper and darker, …
ADDICTION RECOVERY BY THE POWER OF GOD
Anonymous Five years ago I was a mess. A total mess. But the mess had begun ten years prior… I grew up in a Christian household with the best parents and siblings on earth. My parents set a fabulous example and taught us of Christ’s love for us. I attended our non-denominational church on the …
THE STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES
Sallie Dean Four year old me, little legs sprawled out on a warm quilt in the sun, feeding and burping my cloth diapered baby dolls. I was nurturing from the moment I could grip a lovey. “Story” – a baby girl name on my long list of potential baby names to swoon over. I was …
CARRIED THROUGH CANCER
Robin Buffington Spring Break is always a blessing for a teacher. The week of rest, relaxation and fun was typical for my annual break from school, and I looked forward to Spring Break 2014. A month before, I had found a lump during a breast exam and had scheduled a mammogram during the week of …
COMING OUT FOR CHRIST
Cheryl Reed In the fall of 2009, my daughter Logan left for college. This left me in a place of despair, loneliness and isolation. For the first time in my life, I felt truly alone and was grieving the loss of motherhood as I knew it. With Logan moving away, it meant that many other …
DREAMS COME TRUE
Jenni Norsworthy In April of 2014, I turned 30 years old, and the idea of starting a family – which was something that I had put on the back burner for the first four years of our marriage – suddenly became something I could not stop obsessing over. Not only were my husband …
RECOVERING FROM EATING DISORDER AND FINDING FULLNESS IN CHRIST
Eleanor Boynton At the beginning of my senior year in high school, I began seeing girls I knew battling eating disorders. I had been struggling with depression for the past year, and was searching for something else to replace my emotions and feelings that were too hard for me to handle. The eating disorders I …
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