Color Speak: Unveiling Truth for Light

Color Speak, Season 2, Episode 3, Balancing Contentment with Desire for Healing, with Debbie Oelke

January 28, 2022 J. M. Huxley Season 2 Episode 3
Color Speak: Unveiling Truth for Light
Color Speak, Season 2, Episode 3, Balancing Contentment with Desire for Healing, with Debbie Oelke
Show Notes

Nothing can stop a woman of God. Not even a wheelchair.

The Light shines there too, illuminating purpose.

Light is where you’ll find truth; truth is where you’ll find color.

Color is where you’ll find God.

Color is God.

It’s his love for you.

We know light is what makes color happen.

Color is a product of light. So, if God IS Light, that means color testifies!

Have you ever thought of color this way?

Color celebrates what God has done from the beginning, what He is still doing.

We can be encouraged to live our lives to the fullest, knowing we have support from the other side cheering us on. We need only pay attention to be empowered on our journeys.

There is so much more beyond what we can see. There is so much right in front of our eyes!
He never promised this would be easy.

But there really is light for our effort. Always. When we experience this, we are not only compelled to share this truth with others, we are empowered on our journeys.

Our pain has purpose.

Our encounters with God serve others.

Our stories give the Spirit opportunity to work.

Because there is triumph over struggle and victory over despair and there is a love that can heal all brokenness and we need to talk about these things.

Today we have the honor of hearing from a woman who learned to balance her desire for healing with finding contentment apart from it.

Debbie learned to stand in the wait, even from a wheelchair.

Even when her healing didn't come.

Which is why her soon to be released book is entitled: I’m Still Standing: Balancing Contentment with Desire for Healing.

Debbie’s story of maintaining hope in the face of a sudden disability is one that resonates with all of us. Of course she had questions about the Lord’s purposes. Naturally, she cried. A lot.

But faith  taught her to cope with many sudden losses in her life.

Faith allowed her to celebrate the Lord’s provision in spite of them.

Faith caused her to be refined by her disability.

To prevail.

We can all take courage from the perspective of a wheelchair. There, God does some of His best work.

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In 1999, at the age of 25, Debbie was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She says life was basically normal until the age of 43. In 1017, she experienced a major MS exacerbation, leading to the use of a cane, then a walker, and now a wheelchair. A mom, former school social work, and now a soon-to-be published author, Debbie has a lot to encourage us with today.

Verses referenced:

2 Corinthians 4:16-18~That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

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J.M. Huxley (Janet Huxley) is an award-winning author and broadcast news anchor. Currently, she

J.M. Huxley (Janet Huxley) is an award-winning author and broadcast news anchor. Currently, she is a morning news anchor for conservative radio; formerly, an airborne traffic and news reporter and the operations director for the San Diego and Kansas City offices of Westwood One’s Metro Networks. Her memoir, MILK AND HONEY LAND: A Story of Grief, Grace, and Goats , won the 2019 Author Academy Award for Best Memoir, and the 2021 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner in the Christian - Non-Fiction genre. Her children’s book, RAINBOW LAND , encourages children to see God in the rainbow.

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