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There is no chasm so deep the Shepherd will not fight to bring one lost lamb home.

That truth is the heartbeat behind my new novel, Bethan’s Identity—a girl who chooses to live, and loses everything before she comes to know the Shepherd for who He truly is.

It is also the truth that saved my life eighteen years ago.

I was a freshman in college, carrying an undiagnosed traumatic brain injury and the weight of childhood secrets I was sure made me fallen and damaged.

I was tired of choosing life.

I had a plan. I had done the research. I wanted to make sure my family would have as little mess as possible.

But the Shepherd did not stop fighting for me, even when I was done fighting for myself.

My mom came home early that day.

Later, she told me the Holy Spirit had pressed on her so strongly to get home that she wept the entire drive.

That night, I opened my Bible, and Luke 15 met me on the page—the parable of the lost sheep. The Shepherd who leaves the ninety-nine to go after the one.

I broke.

Because I was the one.

I still tear up thinking about it.

He did not stop.

He used my mom.

He used my church.

He used a clinician who finally named what was wrong.

He used counselors who helped me carry what I couldn’t hold alone.

I am a wife, a mother, and an author today because He refused to let me die.

There is no chasm so deep He will not climb down into it.

No darkness so black He cannot bring light into it.

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Bethan’s Identity was written for the one who thinks they’ve gone too far to be found.

For the one who isn’t sure the Shepherd still comes.

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