Bring Your Broken Pieces (And Start New)Sample

Bring Your Chains

Terror filled Jayme as she stared down at the earth thousands of feet below. Underneath the bubbling fear was a boiling excitement. It was time to leave the plane, and something told her that she would love this.

She took a deep breath and jumped, wind whipping at her face. Her arms were outstretched as the world zipped by. This is what freedom feels like, she thought. This is what living feels like.

Free falling 15,000 feet from an airplane felt like going a month without binging and purging herself. Bulimia had ruled her life. Her childhood perfectionism grew into a check-the-box relationship with God, food-restricting diets, and over-exercising. It ate away at her. It chained her.

Something had to change. It was time to start trying to recover. She had nothing left to lose trying it God’s way. She prayed out even though she was terrified.

What if I gain weight?

What if all these bad things happen that I don’t have control over?

Her thoughts spun wild, but she had to let go of control and start getting help. She came across a book written by someone who had dealt with bulimia. She saw herself in the pages of the book, only this person had gotten better. The story was enough to make Jayme realize it was time to start taking tiny, gradual steps.

She went one day without purging.

A week.

She’s now gone eight years without purging. Jayme thought she’d live with this addiction her entire life, but God had a different plan. It was a long journey that led to jumping out of that plane, but she now lives daily in beautiful, God-given freedom.

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Jayme could only find freedom with the Lord. Let this story encourage you today. Jesus can help you get through whatever you have been struggling with. He can set you free!

If you have enjoyed this plan, check out From These Broken Pieces: True Stories of Redemption by Katie Hauck Ministries. This full-length book tells real-life stories of how the Lord restored lives that the world said were too far gone.