Stripped.

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That was me in the Winter of 2013. Life had seemingly stripped me of everything -  my health, my career, my family and even my marriage. There’s a much longer story which you can read about in my blog, but the shorter version goes something like this: I was on my 2rd esophageal surgery and feeding myself from a G and J tube; I had just lost my brand new executive job because we moved to the East coast from Seattle; my husband and I lost primary custody of my step-kids (also due to the move) and my husband had relapsed with his addiction to alcohol, because, well all of the above. Yup, everything, absolutely everything I treasured was gone.

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God used this experience, however, to intervene and give me the much-needed spiritual wake-up call I needed. You see, although things looked great on the outside and even though I was a dedicated Christian, everything that I thought made me, “me” had been taken away, and I was broken. For me, this was devastating because over years I had, unwittingly, built my identity, worth and purpose on things like accomplishment, success and popularity. I did this, even as a child, in my athletic performance, my career and parenthood and marriage. I thought, mistakenly, that the more I succeeded and did everything near perfectly, the more people would like me. So, as you can imagine, when all of these things were stripped away, what was left, wasn’t pretty. I had no idea who I was, what I was supposed to do or how to move forward. As you can imagine for a type A personality like mine, this was almost unbearable, but thankfully, God understood and worked to revive me, right where I was at, and that’s how Revive began. Watch the vdieo to the left to see my story.