HOPE-FULL HEARTS
I am so thankful that you have visited my page. I pray that you will be blessed as I share my personal, daily battles as a Christian facing depression, grief, and loss…a God-given testimony. Find out where my hope comes from and know that you, too, can have a “hope-FULL heart” even when life is difficult…because #God is greater!
If you are here, then I pray you will take a few minutes to read about why I share my story and why I have a hope-FULL heart. I created my blog in September 2018. In it, I share some things that I have gone through in my life or am currently going through. Read about how God has blessed me through the good and bad times in my life.
Why do I share my story? My story is a part of me that needs to speak. It tells who I am. It is sacred pieces of my life that I have been led by God to share…no matter how unpleasant or unwanted they may be to me.
I don’t write because “I’m good at it” or because I wish to put myself and my life on display for the world. The reason is: that God has instructed me to share my story with others, as a mission for Him, and I choose to obey Him…therefore, I write and I delight in it.
I am hopeful, that even if only one person reads it, God will use it to help, heal or encourage that one person, and it will have all been worth it. I am hope-FULL that God can, and will, use my story for His glory!
Looking back, I realize that God has been preparing me for this ministry for Him throughout my entire life. It has definitely been challenging and intimidating, sharing my innermost thoughts and feelings with the world. For many years, I allowed fear, insecurities and lies, which I now know were straight from Satan, to hold me back…fear that I wasn’t good enough or strong enough.
Sharing my story and allowing myself to be transparent to others does put me in a vulnerable position. However, God has shown me it is during these times when His strength and power is made perfect through my weaknesses (2Corinthians 12:9).
With the courage and strength God has so graciously bestowed upon me, I have been blessed to overcome my insecurities…not by not having them anymore, but by being able to allow the Lord to use me through them.
God has gifted me with the ability to write in order to share my story of His great love and all that He has done for me throughout my life. I am hope-FULL that God will bless you as you read my story, my life’s journey thus far. I am proud to say that God is in my story! 
As I continue on in my life’s story, I will rely on God each step of the way and page by page, as “HE” is the author and creator of my story and is the only one that knows “the rest of the story” (as Paul Harvey said it best lol). But I do know this much…I can rest assured knowing that in the end all will be well because I will spend eternity with Him!!!
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I would like to thank you in advance for all of your love and support as I share “my story” and strive to fulfill the ministry the Lord has given me. (Colossians 4:17b) God bless you all! ❤ Melissa
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