Finding Divine Purpose through Suffering

God often calls us through our pain…

When my husband passed in June 2024, my world broke wide open. He wasn’t just my love—he was my soulmate, my anchor, my softest place to land. The grief came hard and fast, like a tide I couldn’t outrun. One minute, we were planning life; the next, I was left alone in a silence I didn’t choose, with questions that had no answers.

I didn’t set out to become a writer. My background is in biomedical research—a world of logic, precision, and data. But grief rewrites things. Pain pushes us into new places. And somewhere deep in the hollow of that loss, a quiet thought emerged: Write.

At first, I ignored it. I wasn’t sure if it was just a coping mechanism or a divine nudge. So I asked God for a sign—something undeniable.

✨ And then the signs came.

In a span of just days, I met two authors in the most unexpected ways.

First, on a flight to Seattle, I sat in seat 01A—a random decision that placed me across from a flight attendant named Derrick. We spoke for a long time, and he shared that he had self-published a book. That conversation sparked something long buried in me.

Then, while visiting a friend in Canada, a man named Rene applied to rent her basement. Rene, too, turned out to be an author.uthor.

Two authors. Two industries of movement—one in the air, the other at sea. I couldn’t ignore the symbolism: transportation. Transition. Journey.

These weren’t coincidences. They were confirmations.
God was speaking. And He was calling me forward.

📖 This is why I write.

Not to escape the pain—but to give it purpose.
Not just to honor Jim’s life—but to reflect on the divine threads that run through all of ours.

My grief may be the catalyst, but my writing is about more than sorrow. It’s about transformation. It’s about trusting a God whose ways are higher than ours, even when we don’t understand them.

As Isaiah 55:8–9 says:
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord…”

I pray the stories I write will carry that truth—through heartbreak, through healing, through hope.