New Book Release: "When Faith Is Shaken"
Over the past couple of years, I have walked through an unexpectedly long season of chronic illness and persistent pain. My faith was shaken. I questioned my beliefs, especially how I understood identity, healing, and wholeness when healing did not unfold on my preferred timeline.
That season became the seed for my newest book, When Faith Is Shaken: Discovering Wholeness in the Midst of Chronic Illness.
I did not write this book as a theologian standing at a distance from suffering. I wrote it as someone living inside the tension — believing deeply in God’s ability to heal while learning how to remain steady when the body is still in process.
I learned that chronic illness does more than affect physical strength. It erodes trust. Repeated dismissal in medical settings quietly destabilized my confidence. Delayed answers stirred up questions I never expected to ask. And somewhere along the way, survival mode began to feel like identity.
The Lord began meeting me there — not with formulas, but with dreams. With gentle corrections. With invitations to revisit old beliefs. With reminders that wholeness in Christ is not suspended while symptoms remain.
This book grew out of those encounters.
What has surprised me most, however, is that the healing has continued — even now.
As the proof copy arrived this week, I have been carefully reading every page again, screening for formatting and proofreading adjustments before publication. I want to steward this message well. But as I read through the manuscript again, something unexpected happened.
Overnight, my pain levels dropped.
On Saturday morning as I lingered in bed talking with the Lord, I realized I was taking deep, unguarded breaths. For someone who has lived with shallow, protective breathing for the past two years, that was no small thing. My body was responding to peace.
I have always journaled. Dreams. Conversations with God. Scriptures that stirred something in me. Prophetic words. Visions. I write it all down because I do not want to forget what God is saying.
One unexpected benefit of that habit is that when those journal notes easily become manuscripts, and those manuscripts become books. In the process, reading and re-reading becomes a form of meditation. Time slows, and I'm invited back into the encounter. It allows the truth of God's Word to move from theory into lived reality.
There is probably no one who benefits more from my books than I do.
During editing, I read them multiple times. After publication, I read them again. When leading groups through the content or simply for my own encouragement, the message that once steadied me in writing steadies me again in reading.
Even the editors and proofreaders who helped shape this manuscript shared that they experienced personal healing while working through the pages. That humbled me deeply.
This book did not originate from a marketing strategy. It came from from many nights of wrestling followed by morning revelation. Because of that, I trust the One who inspired it to place it into the hands of those who need it most.
If you are navigating chronic illness, chronic pain, or caring for someone who is, my prayer is that this message reminds you of something essential: your identity in Christ has not been revoked. Healing may unfold in stages, but wholeness in Him is already established. This lesson seems to be on repeat as I continue to work out my salvation.
If When Faith Is Shaken encourages you, would you consider leaving a review on Amazon? Reviews truly help new readers discover books that might meet them in their own season of need.
Thank you for walking this journey with me. I am grateful for what God is still restoring — in all of us.
