I tell my story for a living. I’m an author and a speaker, you see. And my story is a doozy: Trauma, chronic illness, loss of my home, loved ones battling suicide, and being given a month to live paint some of the broad strokes. Hope, growth, healing, and joy bring the picture to life.

Getting to share what God has done in my life is a joy. The Bible says that believers overcome “by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their test...