Welcome to my new blog..... I pray you be encouraged as you read this weekly journal.  

For twenty-eight years I've been the wife of my high school sweetheart, and who after an accident while in Active Duty training, sixteen years ago became a Disable Veteran.  Back then I had no idea, the God I visited in church for years was really "useful" for something or even needed.  My relationship with Him, was just a fiction like relation; I knew about Him, but that was about it.  See, back then, I "had" many "options"; I could sing a prayer to this or that "saint", light up a candle, or even get a little necklace with a picture of one of those "saints" and ask him for whatever; of course neither of them worked, and never saw a good thing come out of it.  

I remember, people going thru the same issues went to doctors and get prescriptions for "stress relievers" or "muscle relaxers", to "ease" the weight of a lifestyle that had to be changed.  I was never a drug user, a smoker not even an alcoholic, but God had greater plans for me, and I simply was not serving or living for God).  Because it didn't make sense to me get some pills that wasn't really solving my problem, I didn't fool with a deeper stuff. Over the counter muscle relievers, put me to sleep but as I woke up, the issue was still there and unsolved. Exercise, was not producing much either, beside the fact it made me sweat, which would make my face red, and kind of swelled up, and my body "sticky", and yucky! After the needed shower, I still had to go back to deal with whatever issue I had left in the table to go sleep or exercise, and now more time had past, if they were related to unpaid bills, now those were late; if it was related to personal relationships, now there was a deeper gap between that person and I, and as the time past I realized, NOTHING HAD BEEN ACCOMPLISHED! So when life got rough, I was about to jump off a bridge, LITERALLY!!!

There were several times, I drove down the interstate back and forth from my parents home to mine, that the pressure (Satan) would make question if I drive my car off the bridge would be an "option".  The reality was that GOD was taking care of me all along. Yes, He was allowing some pressure over me, so I would turn my focus on HIM and would call HIM, to help me solve those things, BUT because I wasn't listening, there was an on going pressure.  I was a person battling anxiety, "panic attacks", "depression"!!! And can I tell you, NO ONE knew it!!! I didn't even knew it myself until, my surroundings changed, as our family was relocated across the ocean to my husband's new duty station, over seventeen hundred miles away from home.  In this new location, away from everyone I knew, the Lord surrounded me with a new set of people, people that served a God, which I knew from the distance but that I had no relationship with. And praises to God, this was the time my life started to be transformed for the glory of God.  HE TOUCHED ME!!! HE HEALED ME!!! HE TRANSFORMED my life, and because of HIS love, mercy and compassion, I decided I was to live to give HIM the glory at ALL TIMES!

This weekly blog will include how the LORD, got me thru some of the challenges that as a Wife and Care-Giver (which is more like a nurse), Mother, and Minister I'd faced. These testimonies I will be sharing with you every weekend, could be different subjects depending on that week's happenings. 

I pray you stick with me thru this season; and if you or your church has an opportunity and want me to speak to your congregation, or to your women’s ministry feel free to get back with me. And that these testimonies will be for the glory of God and the benefit of building HIS Kingdom.

With love in Christ,

Rev. Gloribel C. Ramírez