WHAT’S YOUR NAME?
On Pinterest, I call myself “Molly-O.”
I chose Molly because I wanted a nickname for Martha. “O” is because I aspire to become an Overcomer each day, whether I feel like it, or not.
And… Jesus gets every bit of the credit for any overcoming ’cause I still struggle some days, and yeah, the tears still gush at times when I wish they wouldn’t.
What’s that old saying: Pain is universal but misery is optional? It’s true. We can’t always choose what happens to us, but we can always choose how we will ultimately respond.
Only we decide on the who we will choose to become.
Let me add here, I have had it easy, real easy compared to what Believers have suffered on the other side of the world. Yes, there have been wounds. I have scars. So what, right? Nobody gets a picnic. Live a few years and life will teach you—were all messy and broken. And yes, I still get a little prickly, especially if I even think I’m about to get hammered from a pulpit. But I’m in church and that’s a flat-out miracle!
So now, I advocate for you—the broken and discarded.
Mainly because I know—it wasn’t Jesus that discarded you or pushed you away.
You may believe you have good reasons to be mad at God or distrusting of Him.
I can understand that, but you don’t—not really.
People maybe.
Welcome to the human race.
We’re all of us, every single one, sinful and selfish.
Like pain that truth is universal.
I don’t know where you find yourself today, or why you have chosen to leave the Church, or at the very least stay safely outside the fold, keeping to the frayed fringes.
I don’t know if you find yourself “wandering on every high hill” as Ezekiel says, but my hope is that this book will come alongside you wherever you are, bringing with it some real understanding for what you’re feeling.
It’s Mercy that washes wounds and Hope that brings the bandages.
I hope you find both here.
Broken Vessels are priceless in God’s eyes.
He sees your brokenness as an asset to His Kingdom.
You are not a liability.
He wants you to come home.
(Me too.)
We need you, and yes, I know there are some in The Church that are phony and meaner than a pack of junkyard dogs.
(I know.)
But there are GOOD people, too, and you are missed.
We are the weaker for your being AWOL.
We need you!
(Jesus and I think it’s high time someone told you so.)
It’s time to forgive and be forgiven.
It’s time to get back in The Game.
It’s the fourth quarter and were behind; fourth down and we need what only YOU can bring to the team.
There’s A Harvest waiting and the time to harvest is NOW.
So I’m praying… I’m asking you… Beloved Prodigal, please.
Women With Destiny 