Listen to the full episode here: Sarah Geringer is a blogger, speaker and author of Transforming Your Thought Life: Christian Meditation in Focus. Today, Sarah shares how the Lord helped her overcome depression, why being a child of divorce stinks, and how she invested in her dream to become a writer. Sarah’s practice of Christian meditation using Scripture is a wonderful tool that will help you focus your thoughts in productive directions. If you are struggling with run away thoughts, Sarah’s story will encourage you because victory is possible.
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Stories Sarah shared:
• Growing up in the middle of the Bible belt
• The heritage of faith in her family
• How her church and school class became her family after her parent’s divorce
• The shock of public school
• Giving her life to Christ and experiencing the peace of the presence
• Losing her best friend when she moved away
• Hearing the Spirit tell her she didn’t have to think suicidal thoughts anymore
• Experiencing relationship with Jesus
• The battlefield of the university classroom
• Giving up her scholarship to go to a different school
• Realizing marriage does not solve loneliness
• How being a child of divorce affected her
• Deciding to invest in herself with a writing
• Publishing her first traditionally published book
Great quotes from Sarah:
I knew his presence felt warm and comforting.
If you start with his Word then you start recognizing his voice. Then you can grow a very close an intimate relationship with him. His Word is the doorway to a deeper relationship with him.
I realized marriage is not the solution for loneliness and that was a crushing disappointment.
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Resources we mentioned:
• Sarah’s website
• Sarah’s blog on divorce as Living Death
• Transforming Your Thought Life: Christian Meditation in Focus by Sarah Geringer
• Living in the Power of the Holy Spirit by Charles Stanley
• The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges
• Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World by Michael Hyatt
• Chandler Bolt’s Self-Publishing School blog
• She Speaks Conference
Related episodes:
• Caroline Abbott and Coming Home to the Lord
• Marc Schelske and the Wisdom of Your Heart
• Sharon Swing and How to Listen to Your Life
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