My name is Catherine, but you can call me Cath! By day I'm a Marketing Specialist and professional storyteller (how cool is that!). By night - at least for the past four years - I've been an author in progress, pouring my heart into my first book, "Sacred Wounds" which was inspired by some pretty intense suffering I went through. 

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When I was a senior in high school, I became severely chronically ill with Lyme Disease, and it wrecked me. I was 95% bed ridden and sometimes used a wheelchair. Empty bank accounts, IVs, out-of-state treatments, and more doctors than I could count on two hands, none of whom could help me. That was my story. 

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This illness was constant for over 7 years, and with no end in sight, I become hopeless and prayed for death to come.

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And yet, the Lord had more in mind for me.

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In my eighth year of illness, a series of medications and circumstances Providentially unfolded, and my miraculous healing began. Within 5 months I no longer considered myself chronically ill.

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The thing is, chronic means ongoing and never ending. People don't say, "I used to be chronically ill." But through absolute grace, that's exactly what I can say the Lord did for me - that's my story!

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As devastating as it was, I'm so grateful for these exact means that led to a deep understanding of the hopeless human heart on its own merit, a wrestling with my Maker as to how He could possibly permit such bitter suffering in my life, and through it all, a deeper intimacy with the Lord than I ever could have imagined. 

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This experience of deep suffering also formed the lens through which I write: ever pondering, grappling, and writing honestly about the rawness and the poverty of the human experience. All along seeking the ever present Savior, who Himself hid behind the veil of flesh to bring glory to every crevice of its existence.

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I guess you could still say I feel wrecked at every moment of every day, but nowadays it's by His grace.

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