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Three Nights. One Message.
More than twenty years ago, God woke me at 4:30 a.m. three nights in a row. The first night, I rolled over and went back to sleep. The second night, I did the same thing. By the third night, I finally threw back the covers and said, "Okay, God. What is it?" I sat down in the chair beside my bed where I prayed most mornings. A copy of The Power of a Praying Wife lay open to a chapter I hadn't been reading. That morning, I read it. As I turned the pages, it felt as though God had taken a black Sharpie and written one unmistakable message across the pages: Go to Chicago. Those three words were the exact words I didn't want to hear. Leaving South Carolina meant leaving our home, our family, our closest friends, and everything that felt familiar and secure. I couldn't imagine why God would ask us to walk away from the life we loved. But He was inviting us into a story we couldn't yet see. That single moment became one of the turning points of our lives, leading us into deeper faith and countless ways we would witness God's faithfulness. Sometimes God doesn't shout. Sometimes He simply keeps whispering until we're finally willing to listen. The full story and what happened after that unexpected 4:30 wake-up call is in Breathless Haste: Finding God in Ordinary Life. Available on Amazon, Audible, and other major booksellers and audiobook platforms.
Book Excerpt
Breathless Haste
The third night, another awakening—it was 4:30 a.m. I finally tossed back the covers and very irreverently said, “Okay, God. What is it?”
I got up and plopped into the red chaise lounge chair right next to my bed, the place where I most often read and prayed. The book The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian4 was lying face down on my chair, open to chapter 9. I had been praying the prayers outlined on the pages almost daily, but I hadn’t been reading the actual text of the chapters. Not knowing what else to do, I began to read the contents of chapter 9, titled “His Purpose”: “Everyone has a purpose. It’s the reason we exist. . . . When [your husband] discovers that purpose, and is doing what he was created to do, becoming what he was created to be, he will find fulfillment. This can only contribute to your happiness as well.”5 The tears began to flow as I turned each page. It was as if God were writing on the pages of this book with a black marker, “Go to Chicago!”
Surely God wasn’t asking me to leave everything I had ever known
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