168: Sarah Geringer and Transforming Your Thought Life

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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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