Often how God brings us up is in weakness.

And God had me on a journey that I'm glad.

I didn't know what was next.

But it was a process of continually dying to myself.

God's story.

Your life.

Unfolding short stories.

I was a young, healthy person when on my honeymoon about 18 years ago, almost 18 years ago, I got an infection that led to chronic conditions that I still live with today. And it just really shook me up.

Growing up, I was in a missionary home. My parents were missionaries, and I had a relationship with

Jesus. So thankful for that. But in these years when all of a sudden, I was in a body that

was not functioning well, I had to

kind of take it to the next level. And so that was 2000s when I initially got sick. And God often

speaks to me that very often quoted verse, you know, 2 Corinthians 12, 9, my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness,

therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that Christ's power may rest on me.

And, you know, it's so easy to say that, but when it comes to actually living it out,

I have learned that it's not easy. And weakness is not

something that we want as humans and that I wanted in my life. And so I went to the hospital

for a procedure. I was having a lot of intestinal problems. And my heart rate was in the 30s. So they're like, we're not doing the

procedure. You're going to the emergency room. So went to the emergency room. They admitted me to the

cardiac ward. And I was in there for several weeks. I had to be put on a feeding tube because my, I was so malnourished.

My body wasn't digesting food. And, you know, I just, I remember laying in that hospital

bed. I had two small kids at the time. I was a young mom and thinking, what? Like, really, am I

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