A Healing Anniversary
May 30th will remain a special day for as long as I’m alive. This day marks the day my life was changed forever, and God called me to a special ministry. This year, May 30, 2022 marks ten years in which I have literally been walking healed; mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
The path to healing takes many twists and turns. Once healing takes place, the path remains curvy, but the healed one knows how to navigate them. I won’t say that my journey over the past ten years has been easy. It’s been rough at times. It has been heartbreaking at others. There have been times I knew exactly what God wanted me to do, yet other times I had absolutely no idea which way to turn. In those times, I realized I needed to just wait, He must have been preparing the way… or me.
In the past ten years I have learned to trust God more and more. I have seen people come into my life, and watched others go. I have mourned losses, yet rejoiced in new beginnings. One thing I have really learned is that God loves me no matter what. Regardless what I say, do, or experience, He loves me and is always ready willing and able to help me. I just have to ask.
At the beginning of 2022, I took a step back from social media (and nearly everything really) and decided that I wanted to get closer to the God Who saved me and healed me. So I resigned myself to get up earlier to spend a little more time reading His Word, praying and learning. What happened was nothing short of miraculous.
I went from getting up extra early in order to spend time with the Lord, and get to know more of the God I serve. In that quiet time, I began to see patterns in each devotion I read. I saw similarities and comparisons in Scripture that thrilled and amazed me. Everything points to Jesus!
From age six the devil began attacking me, trying to prevent me from becoming who and what God created me to be. At age fifteen I was getting close to coming to know Jesus, so the devil ramped up his attacks on me trying to make me believe I was crazy. But he couldn’t stop me. I accepted Jesus in 1982, a year before I got married. Instead, he ramped up his attacks even more trying to keep me from believing Jesus loved me, was for me, and even saved me. The devil is a liar.
I married, had children, raised those children to know Jesus, operated as not only a police officer’s wife, but then a pastor’s wife, and even served in many different areas in the church… all while suffering severe depression.
But one day I made up my mind that I wanted to be rid of this. I wanted my mind healed. The devil even tried to mess that up. But he couldn’t.
On May 30, 2012, through some very Godly people, I was healed and the Holy Spirit had room to enter and take up residence, preventing that ugly stuff from returning!
In the last ten years God has inspired me to write five books, over three hundred blog posts, speeches for others, ghost write for others, editing and proofreading for others, and to coach new writers. My dream has always been to be a published author. God gave me my heart’s desire and more. And He isn’t finished.
In March of this year He also allowed me to find answers to physical issues I had been experiencing for years, with no concrete answers. He proved so many things to me, showing me what I have declared my whole life: I have always been healthy. But due to an internal issue, God showed me to the right doctors and on May 23rd, He allowed my physical healing to join the mental, emotional and spiritual healing.
I’m not bragging on me. I want you to see what God can and will do when you let Him lead. Follow Him. He never leads you in the wrong direction. It’s always forward.
Here’s to ten years healed! And here’s to the excitement and expectation of what God is going to do next! Happy Healed Anniversary to me!
