Just as the holidays arrived, so did my daughter’s cancer diagnosis. It was more tears than cheers that Christmas. Where was the peace?

Have you ever found the courage to make a crucial decision, only to be met with unexpected challenges, adversity and critics telling you how wrong you are? This is the story of one such decision.

I felt myself caving deeper into fear and worry, and I knew the only remedy for this kind of fear was to trust in God. Despite terrifying circumstances, I had to trust God with the outcome, whether we lost everything or nothing.

Sailing forward on calm water snuggled next to my daughters and in the arms of my husband, I couldn’t help but admire our restored family. We had taken quite a journey, 17 years in fact, to arrive at this point.

In that moment, when it seemed as if we were abandoned and surrounded by an undefeatable enemy, God used a song to remind us that we weren’t battling this alone.

I have found that when my plans get wrecked and I experience adversity, it forces me to unravel what I thought I knew.

The answer we had been waiting on for weeks struck with the force of a wrecking ball, it knocked the oxygen right out of me, left me breathless and broken in a thousand pieces.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different and holding on to the hope of health and healing.

It felt as if God himself came to my door and stretched out his arms and hugged me, and said, “I love you.”

When God is all you have, you realize that God is all you need.