In order for us to be our best selves, we have to embark on a journey of healing.  We do not want to be women with purpose, focused on raising our children to be their best selves but blinded by our own trauma.  We want to live whole and healthy lives fulled with promise.  Creating a healing ground, it is important to our growth and our journey.  

Today, Suddenly a Woman podcast is back, Season 2! The break is over and our host, Kim Brown gets vulnerable about STARTING OVER or STARTING AGAIN! Kim has a vision to help empower women in all walks of life.  She is sharing her journey and being an open book, as she navigates a new season of life. What happens when we challenge ourselves to be better?  Will we grow when we surround ourselves with people who force us to dust ourselves off and keep trying?  

Psalm 23 reminds us that in life or in death — in times of plenty or want — God is good and worthy of our trust. The psalm uses the metaphor of a shepherd’s care for his sheep to describe the wisdom, strength and kindness of our God. It gives voice to the sheep who are always eager to share what they know to be true, that staying close to the shepherd is always the safe place to be, for there can be nowhere He leads that does not, in the end, result in that which will be good for His flock.

In the New Testament, Jesus reveals Himself to be the Good Shepherd of Psalm 23, and at the graveside of his friend Lazarus, this is especially evident. For there, as we learn from John 11:35, the shortest verse in the Bible, that “Jesus wept.” Two words that speak volumes of what Psalm 23 means when it declares, “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.”

Here is Jesus — our Lord and Shepherd — not merely looking down on our sorrow from a distance and feeling for us with sympathy, but coming alongside and entering into our suffering as one of us and in empathy He is with us.