Unshakeable: Stories to Anchor You Through Life's Storms

I am so excited for you to get your hands on this beautiful collection of resilience stories, one of the chapters being written by yours truly. It was an incredible experience participating in this collaboration of authors, entrepreneurs, and brave individuals from all over who opened their hearts on these pages and share with you what anchored them in the hardest moments of their lives.

 

Whenever I am approached about an opportunity, one of my criteria for whether or not I accept it is if the concept comes fairly easily to me. I always want the words to flow and be what God wants to say, not forced in any way. In what I can only term as being a miracle, this chapter was already written in its entirety in one afternoon, two days before I even gave my final yes to being part of this project. God’s hand was clearly in this from the beginning and, when final drafts came out weeks later, the fact that there were no edits or changes that had to be made confirmed this.

 

This process was also quite personal for me in several ways, the first one being that I have always wanted to share my writing with the world in published form. My late grandmother (who passed away back in 2010) sowed the seed of this dream, always telling me when I was little and would share something with her that I’d written, “Darling! That’s wonderful! You need to get published someday!” I have felt close to her through this journey and know she would be thrilled to see this dream come true. Also, as you’ll read in my chapter, I reference the loss of a very dear friend and how his death changed me forever. I have carried his memory close to me through this writing process as well and, just like my grandmother, I know he would be so very happy to see this come to fruition. I wish to honor them both for how they continue to inspire the words I speak and the message I offer to the world.

 

My chapter aims to give you a peak into a slice of time in my life that was incredibly difficult. A dark season that felt endless and which took quite some time to heal from. Using a visual from my life here in Alaska as my inspiration, it is my hope that you will gather strength and comfort from what I’ve shared in this book as well as faith for a brighter future on the other side of your hardest moments. The heart behind my participation in this collaboration is to gently send my story out to the world with the prayer that it will touch lives with the Grace that’s been ever-present through my own losses and pain and others will come to know the anchoring Hope that is available to them in their own storms.

 

- Katherine

Loved this book. Everyone of us has a story. We have had issues that could have held us back. But they used their past pains and learned from them.

Marisa H

Very inspiring!!  I wish I had this book back then so I could seen that I could see past what was happening this moment and know better days were coming!

Helen M.

Just what I needed in this time of uncertainty. It helped inspire and guide me to go inward and find the answers to help move me forward on a healthy path to healing.

Angela S.