As we look to the new year, we can learn a lot from our past...

What was the one experience that completely changed your life? What happened? How did it change your life?

I was hit by a car at the age of 8.  It was a cold December afternoon in 1981 and I misread the speed that the car was traveling across the urban street in my neighborhood.  The car knocked me 10-feet in the air and I landed violently on the driver's hood, then rolled to a stop onto the cold road.  I was knocked unconscious all the while hearing my sisters crying and screaming.  

The ambulance took me to a trauma center, fixed my broken leg, my broken arm and the bleeding I was suffering internally.  After three months of a body cast and three more months of crutches and therapy, I became brand new again…on the outside…but the inside of me changed forever.  Our small family fell apart after that, and we have not been the same since...

I write about my journey to healing and the mountaintops and valleys in my book, Faith's Pursuit: Understanding God's Faithfulness in Suffering.  To find out more about my incredible journey, download my book from amazon.com, or check out my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/faithspursuit

Happy New Year!

~Deanna