Some Exciting News to Share with You!

I want to fill you in on a quick part of my story before I let you in on the future. 

In 2008, I weighed 330 lbs. and was short on hope, with no direction of where my life was headed. 

I was only 25 years old. 

I wore size 30 jeans and couldn’t even find my pants in stores. I had to order them online. It was humiliating! 

I hated everything about myself. I’ll tell you more about the why behind that later. 

After hitting rock bottom with my health, I decided it was time to do something different and turn my life around. So, one next right step after another, I eventually lost 145 lbs. No surgery. No dieting. Just one step at a time trying to live a healthy life. 

Let me insert this, too: There is no possible way I could’ve made it through that journey without Jesus and encouragement from people who loved me. Jesus had to do a lot of heart healing. Again, more on that later. 

Fast forward to today.

I’ve kept most of the weight off after all these years, and I’m so grateful God has given me the strength to do that. 

For the last few years I have been pursuing skin removal surgery, as a large amount of weight loss like that leaves some skin that’s less than desirable. 

But time and time again my insurance has said, “No!” You see, they consider skin removal surgery cosmetic. 

It’s been a struggle, I won’t lie. Knowing someone gets to sit behind a desk who has never met me, who’s never walked in my shoes, who’s never woken up day after day carrying what I’ve carried, gets to tell me that my desire for skin removal surgery is nothing more than cosmetic. 

I might have come close to losing my Jesus a time or two. :) 

I always ask the Lord for a word as I approach each new year. As 2021 approached, He gave me the word “health”. This is the year I’m going to be healed from the struggle with hypothyroidism. This is the year my liver is going to function perfectly again after black mold tried to wipe it out. I’m holding onto that word “health.”

But then in February, He showed me that this is the year I would get skin removal surgery. This is the year! 

I believed Him because I’m learning it’s better not to doubt, but I had no idea how that was going to happen. 

Do I fundraise?

Do I get a second job? (Even if I did, that would take years.)

We’re talking a LARGE sum of money to get something like this done. As I continued to dig into what the Lord was planning to do, neither of these things felt like part of His plan. 

But God… He’s so big and generous, and there’s nothing He can’t handle. 

Two weeks ago the Lord showed up and provided the money - the full amount - to pay for skin removal! 

Jehovah Jireh! 

I’m just so in awe of His grace and love for me that I still can’t even wrap my head around it all. 

This is one of the most life-changing events I’ve ever faced. I’ll share more of why in another email, as I don’t want you to have to read a book today. 

This is one of the most vulnerable, scary, yet exciting places I’ve been in my life, and I can’t wait to see what God does with it. 

Anyway.. I’ve only shared it with a few close friends and some family because it’s just so big, but now is the time to share it with the world. 

Thanks for joining me on this journey and if you don’t mind, would you pray for me? 

I’ll be sharing more about the journey as I move forward.

I’m actually hoping to film my journey if you know of anyone who has documentary filming experience who would be interested in taking on this project. I really feel led to walk through every vulnerable step so that someone else may be inspired to keep moving forward in their health journey. 

If you know anyone, let me know. 

Here’s to health!

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