Kaity Sheets
I was born and raised in the great state of Illinois, making only one move in my entire life… It was thrilling to move less than a mile away from my old home. I suppose my parents have an affinity for Channahon. During my days running through Channahon neighborhoods, I fell in love with creativity. My creative side has always been strong, finding new ways to express itself every week. Whether it’s music, writing, crafts, painting, photography, creating workout plans, re-doing my room every other day, and more, I have always had a creative idea or two swirling around in my big head. My wonderful husband, Brice, and I got married June 4th, 2022. I’m so ridiculously excited to step into a new season of life. I wonder how many times I will re-do our condo before Brice doesn’t think it’s cute anymore!
In 2017, the Lord changed my life forever. A year prior I had developed an eating disorder. It wreaked havoc on my life and heart. I was so lost in myself, but the Lord gently beckoned me from my self-centered despair. He set my feet upon His firm foundation. Through teaching me who He is and who I am, the Lord brought me from lying down in the muck and mire to dancing for joy up on the pavement. The first time I ever wrote a blog post was in 2017 when the Lord spoke freedom over me from my eating disorder. He used the imagery of a village post-war to help me heal. They had won the war, but the wreckage still needed to be taken care of and cleared away. The Lord used the last 5 years to rebuild my ruins. I stand before Him now, in awe of how He has delicately, graciously, and creatively re-built my ruins into something even more spectacularly beautiful than I ever had before the eating disorder. The Lord has been good to me. My prayer is that the words I write would be in direct glorification of the Lord and they would invite you into a space of healing, honest reflection, redemption, restoration, and joy.
“The Lord will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.”
Isaiah 51:3