So I am involved in this new ministry called Anthem of Hope (www.anthemofhope.com) It is a ministry designed to give comfort and healing to those with illness. Darren Leblanc (www.leblanclife.com) has got a group of us who are helping him start this ministry. Anyway, I have been asked to help out with the marketing. It has been a joy to work with the team and to work on something so dear to my heart.
Anthem of Hope is personal to me. Anthem of Hope is for the sick and those needing encouragement and full healing. Well, that was me not to long ago. When I graduated from college six years ago I began experiencing some symptoms...I started loosing my vision and was having horrible headaches. I would black out, not pass out, but I would have no vision for 30 seconds to minutes a few times a day. I went to doctors and no one could see anything on MRIs or C-scans. Finally, a few months later I lost full vision in my right eye. They realized that I had a psudo tumor. It is when your spinal fluid is elevated in your brain. Just like a tumor with all the side effects. Soon after I under went a surgery in my eye to relieve the pressure. It helped for about a month. Then I had to have a brain surgery to relieve the fluid build up. A few spinal taps later and a shunt in my back and brain it finally evened out. Two years later it came back and I had to spend a month in the hospital to get the shunt repaired with more surgery. It has been good for two years now. It was the scariest time in my life. Having something like Anthem of Hope right there would have helped. God was faithful and I clung to him through it all though. But when I think of Anthem of Hope it is personal. I want to be a part of giving people a resource unlike anything else to help them in their time of healing.
Sometimes I wonder why things happen and you don't always know the answers but lately I feel like I can relate and work on this ministry because of what God has brought me through. I can help and relate to those who need this resource. I am encouraged by what God has done in my life and look forward to helping others.
Most days I don't feel qualified to do the marketing for something like this but when we are weak God is strongest. I am not always going to get it right but I know that God has his hand in this new adventure in my life!
2 comments:
Nicole,
I think you are absolutley right. God will make things happen even when we feel unqualified. I am super proud of you and how you have used your pain to serve others! You are truly an example! Through all the junk you have had the past few years (and God knows there has been enough) you have been a shining light. I love you!
what a great cause!! You are blessed to do work for them and they are blessed to have you!!
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