Rewriting My Story for His Glory!

A New Chapter

May is my birthday month! I turned 40 years old this year.  I started my adult life as a young mother at age 16 and had four children by the time I was 24 – two before I met my husband and two with him (before we were married). Thankfully the Lord kept me before and after I gave my life to Him, through the ups and downs of being a single parent, getting married then divorced, and rebuilding the broken pieces of my life. So, turning forty is a milestone for me, not because I feel older but because I started so young. At an age when most people are just starting a family all my children are growing up and I’m headed into the next chapter of my life. It’s time for me to start thinking about how I want my story to end, even though I’m only in the middle of book.

Surrendered Balance

In my first book Surrendered Balance – Daily Living for the Modern Christian Woman, I gave my testimony of transitioning from being a new Christian, stay-at-home mom to a working Christian woman going through a divorce and also how the Lord helped me to stay close to Him, find balance, and discover the things that are essential and truly important in the Christian life and how to take time for those things amid a busy life.

When I wrote Surrendered Balance I was at a place of survival in my life in which I was just trying to make it through each day and keep holding onto Jesus. However, as I learned to put Him first and to make taking care of myself and family a priority my life started to come into divine order and my relationship with the Lord became that of an intimate, trusted, Friend, Father, and Savior, not just one of a Master and servant. This, in turn, led to the guilt of my past and the burden of trying to do everything perfect for a God who might punish me if I messed up, again… being lifted.

My New Identity

Today I am happy to say that those same foundational principles of the surrendered balance message still work for me today to keep me rooted in Christ and continually focusing on the essential things in life, even though I am no longer in survival mode.

Now I’m at a place peace and rest (regardless of what’s going on around me) and I am headed to my place of promise. When we don’t feel guilty and ashamed we are free to dream with God – of a better future, not only for ourselves but for others too.

Rewriting My Story for His Glory!

If anyone would have asked me while I was in survival mode where I thought my life was going I would have given an uncertain answer because even though I had dreams I couldn’t break past the strongholds of busyness and chaos long enough to think my dreams could actually come to true. But now I dare to dream beyond what I can even imagine by myself, I dream with God! I know He has a good plan for me, and with Him I get to rewrite my story. I’m no longer living in my past, afraid of the future. As I look forward to turning 40, I look forward to a future filled with the possibilities of good things to come.

Beloved, you can change how your story ends by dreaming big, bold dreams with God and SEEING them come true! For in Christ all things are possible.

Krista: follower of Christ