How did you begin to discover who you are or who you were apart from your marriage and who God was calling you to become next? Was there a moment that you realized my story isn't over, that God may

actually be using part of it? There's so many stories.

There's so many parts.

I could talk about it all day long.

When people say blindsiding divorce, you know, if you haven't walked through it, I don't think you can imagine it, but that's what it was for me.

It was like there one day and not the next and literally shocking and life shattering.

I think I woke up to not really understanding how much faith I put in my marriage and my husband and our checking account and the safety and security of our home instead of God.

gosh, Kim, this is

not

but um anyway I think the biggest thing I have to say about that is that I can remember, and this was years ago and this has ebbed and flowed in my life, but this was probably 15 years ago.

Maybe I remember almost, it wasn't an out loud voice, but it was almost like it was, it was so loud in my head.

I was just walking around my house and I was just doing some chore things and, um, I had a friend who had asked me to do something and I'd kind of been saying no, no.

And it was a ministry kind of thing.

And it was like clear as day.

I heard God say, you have something to offer.

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