I Am Marion Grace - Part 1

I Am Marion Grace.

It is a beautiful sunny day today and I am reminded to be very thankful for the very air that I am breathing. I am so happy that you have joined me for this blog and I invite you to follow me here and on Facebook for a regular dose of faith and joy. If you are new to this site and are just being introduced to my book, Your Greatest Life, Overcoming Depression, Divorce, and Critical Illness, then I want to take this opportunity to tell you what I am all about.

One thing you will find is that I am a very down-to-earth, where the rubber meets the road, kind of person. My aim in all my writing is to meet people where they really are. I am not a fan of pat answers, Christianize language or religious slogans. I was reading an excellent devotional one morning and was enjoying it until I came across the phrase, “they have not yet departed from iniquity”. Well, that was it for me. Who talks like that? You will never hear it from me.

My goal in all my writings is to identify real issues we are all facing and present real Biblical, understandable solutions. I believe in the practical, not theory; process, not ideals. There is tangible help in God’s word and I want to help bring it out.

Most of what I talk about in my book comes from my “perfect storm” experience (there is no other way to describe it). I had been suffering from severe depression for many years and the bitterness and anger of it resulted in divorce along with a stage four cancer diagnosis. Things were not pretty, my friends, but what I learned about God during this time saved my life and changed me forever. It took almost dying to truly learn to live and to finally, after fifty years of being a Christian, to truly “see” God for who he was.

Now I have a banner and a mission. God is about love, not performance; acceptance, never condemnation; freedom, not bondage; and value instead of shame. God has a thousand ways to set you free and I intend to minister them on every available platform. Get ready to lift your head and soar with the eagles.

Stay tuned for part two. In God’s love, Marion