ENCOURAGEMENT FROM GOD
The following is a very personal journal entry written in the first few weeks after the disclosure of my husbands infidelity. I reveal it now to encourage you to listen. To stop all you are doing, to take a walk and listen for the voice of God in your circumstance. The Bible says the Holy Spirit will pray for us when we have no words.
Romans 8: 26, 27 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. NIV
Possibly these words will resonant and you will feel that God is speaking directly to you.
November 2007
I am still here…so SAD. Wish God would just take me from this cruel world.
I went out for a walk and I must say I came back at peace. God is amazing. I walked and prayed and cried and walked and prayed and cried some more. Then I did something different… I listened to that still small voice within.
I heard the most amazing things in the spirit. I wish I could remember them all, but I will pen what I do remember.
God said, “Blossom you are special to me. I am your father, your husband, and your provider. I will not leave you or forsake you…ever. I see every tear you cry and I weep with you.”
“Feel the warm breeze on your cheeks, that is my kiss, that is me wiping away the tears, that is my embrace wrapping you in my arms.” At that precise moment a warm south wind kicked up and caressed my face. My hair lifted softly from my furrowed brow as if God brushed my face tenderly. I raised my face to heaven and bask in the wonder of His amazing presence.
He whispered into my tortured soul, “I love you with an everlasting love, even though you live in an unloving world.
“Every dagger Satan has sent to destroy you will be used for good. Beauty will rise from these ashes. But remain in Me and My words in you, for the legions of hell have come against you.
“Lastly my child, you worry about your appearance and how this has made you feel so unattractive, but I want you to see what I see.
“ You are my bride, my beautiful, beautiful bride with inner beauty that supersedes any outward beauty I have ever created. You are pure before me, dressed in flowing white. You are washed in my blood and you are mine.”
May these words find a home
within your hurting heart.
Consider them a soothing balm,
a healing whisper of hope,
a window into heaven
and the way God views you.
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About the author
Blossom Turner is an award-winning novelist, and a free-lance writer published in Chicken Soup and Kernels of Hope anthologies, and former newspaper columnist on health and fitness. A Word Guild semi-finalist for Anna's Secret, Katherine's Arrangement, Amelia’s Heartsong, and a Word Guild winner for Best Romance for Lucinda’s Defender. She has found her home in the writing of historical fiction but is open to wherever God leads. The many 5-star reviews attest to the power of love and romance authentically woven into the Shenandoah Bride Series about five sisters and their five love stories.
Blossom lives in British Columbia, Canada, with her husband, David, of forty years and their dog Lacey named after Lacey Spring, Virginia, where this series takes place. A former businesswoman, personal trainer, and mother of two grown children she is now pursuing her lifelong dream of writing full-time. A hopeless romantic at heart, she believes all story should give the reader significant entertainment value. However, her writing embodies the struggles of real life. She infuses the reality of suffering with the hope of Christ to give a healthy dose of relatable encouragement to her reader. Her desire is to leave the reader with a yearning to live for Christ on a deeper level, or at the very least, create a hunger to seek for more.
Co-author Suzie Zanewhich
Suzie is a certified life coach, leader of emotional health, and resource specialist. She has found her niche as a soul coach.
Suzie finds purpose in empowering individuals to move towards growth, healing, and alignment with their authentic self. Suzie is driven by a calling to live authentically, as the person God created her to be, to reach her fullest potential and lead others to do the same. Her passion is to help others find meaning through discovering their strengths, gifts, personality, temperament and core values.
Suzie is a life-long learner, continuously immersing herself in new courses to learn more about human behaviour, relationships, psychology, child development, emotions, trauma and healing. Because of her craving to always learn more she has earned the title of resource specialist in the area of self-discovery.
Suzie Zanewich lives with her husband in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She has a patchwork family of four grown children, two daughters, two sons and three granddaughters.
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