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Hello, my name is Joanna Beck, also known as Bushalina Beck.

I am a wife, a mother-to-four amazing, beautiful girls.

I am a leader in full-time ministry here in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and also online.

I am a new author.

My book just came out on Easter.

It's called Where God Met Me, Redeemed from a Path of Failure.

I find it such a privilege to share our testimonies because we experience these intense challenges in life,

some of which we bring on ourselves, but some are just deliberate attacks from the enemy and for us to be grace to shine God's light on these trials that we walk through,

to show other people that it is possible to get unstuck. You can be

redeemed from your path of failure. The pain we endure is part of life here on earth. When we

experience pain, we often question God. Do you not care? Are you even real? Many times we create messes by bad choices

we have made and when we experience the pain, we then get mad that we are in the mess. That is what I had

done. I was divorced, depressed and moved back in with my grandfather and I had to start a journey

to find the real me, who I was created to be.

One of my toughest choices was to no longer blame others for my situation and give God

permission to heal me. Heartbreak is real and the pain we feel of our heartbreaking into

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