Teatime
and Books Author Spotlight
Kathy
McBroom
And
Her
Inspirational Book: Broken – A Journey of Healing
About
the Book:
Lonely. Depressed. Desperate. Rejected. Hopeless.
Broken.
Your job needed to cut back, so you were "let
go". You were fired. The lab results came in. It's cancer. He said,
"This marriage is not enough for me anymore. I want to move on." She
said, "There's someone else."
Broken.
Something happened, and a wedge is between you and
your adult child or their spouse. You are not sure what happened, but at
Christmastime you find yourself not invited to see your grandkids open their
gifts. Distance and issues have come between you and your brother, and your
once close relationship has faded. Things have been said, and feelings have
been hurt.
Broken.
Synopsis:
Broken is a four week bible study that centers around taken our broken
story and allowing God to move us forward.
The chapters are title “The Revealing”, “Repentance”, “Resolution”, and
“Restore”. Also in this study you will
hear the testimonies of five amazing ladies who are survivors and have allowed
God to take their brokenness and turn use it for His glory.
Excerpt:
Chapter One
The Revealing
We are all broken, that’s how the light gets
in.
Ernest Hemingway
When
I was a little girl, I fell, hitting my right elbow on the sharp edge of newly
laid concrete. I was probably riding my
bike at the time. It was a clean cut,
but fairly deep. Before the healing
process could begin, the wound had to be cleaned. We all remember screaming as someone would
first clean a wound and then apply medicine. The wound could not be left dirty
because that could lead to infection; it had to be cleaned in order to heal
properly.
I also
sprained my ankle once. Well, I sprained
both of them at the same time. Shortly after spraining the first one, as I was
trying to be carefully walking down stairs, I fell and sprained ankle number
two. The doctor told me on sprain number one that it would be better if I had
broken it. The healing process would go
better.
This
is true of the human heart also. In
order to heal properly, we must first open the wound. This hurts.
We cannot expect God to heal what we are not willing to give Him. It is assumed that what we hang onto, we can
fix, and we cannot.
Do you agree with me?
In
this process of healing, we must first tell our story. I will give you some guidelines, but I need
you to be honest. No one will read this
story unless you want that. I do
encourage you to consider writing your story because it can minister to many
others. Throughout this study, you will
read survivor stories. These ladies of
all ages have gone through some tough battles and were willing to share just a
part of it with you in order to bring glory to our Great Physician. Our Jehovah
Rapha, the Lord our Healer.
Let’s begin.
• You
must be completely honest—no holding back
• You
cannot blame others unjustly—take responsibility when appropriate
• Write
your story as a release, not as a remembrance that will bring up old hurtful
feelings that you will now dwell on
• Some
memories will be painful, but we must get the dirt out of the wound
• Ask
God for His strength, not yours. You must now learn to fully rely on His power
and the Holy Spirit.
About
the Author
Kathy and her husband Robert have been in ministry
for over twenty years. He served as a
youth pastor at First Baptist Halls, Englewood Baptist Church in Jackson, TN
and Thompson Station Church, Thompson Station, TN for nearly 10 years. He served as pastor of Madison Baptist
Church, Jackson, TN for 8. Then he was
back to Englewood as the Next Generations/Local Missions’ Pastor. Now he serves as the Local Missions Pastor
at Little Flock Baptist Church, Shepherdsville, KY.
Kathy has been an educator for over twenty years
also, primarily as a high school English.
She has taught youth and adult women’s Sunday School classes and Bible
study classes for nearly 30 years. She has authored three self published books
available on Amazon and have free lance written for about 10 years for the
Baptist and Reflector, which is Tennessee’s Baptist newsletter, various other
Christian magazines and web sites.
Currently, she has a blog and writes occasionally for the Western
Recorder, Kentucky’s Baptist newsletter.
Connect
with the Author:
Social links:
Twitter:
@kathymcbroom614
Blog:
kathymcbroom.wordpress.com
Web site:
kathymcbroom.com
Contact info:
Email:kathymcbroom@gmail.com or go to my web site
kathymcbroom.com
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