Kellie Spears – Finding Hope Through Life's Unexpected Trials

Life can change in an instant. But even in our darkest moments, God is still writing a story of redemption.

In this powerful conversation, Valerie Peterson sits down with Kellie Spears to share an incredible testimony of faith, perseverance, and the hope that can only be found in Jesus Christ.

Kellie shares how her life seemed perfect—a loving husband, two young children, a new home, and a bright future. But on what should have been an ordinary day, everything changed.

While driving home after purchasing a new family vehicle, Kellie, her husband Tim, and their six-week-old son were struck head-on by a drunk driver.

The crash was devastating.

Trapped inside the vehicle for hours, Kellie suffered life-threatening injuries, while her infant son was airlifted to another hospital fighting for his life.

In the middle of the chaos, Kellie remembers crying out just one prayer:

"Jesus, save us."

That simple cry became the beginning of a miraculous journey.

Doctors weren't sure they would survive. Kellie faced months of recovery, learning to walk again, overwhelming pain, fear, depression, and unexpected struggles in her marriage. What began as a physical tragedy exposed emotional wounds that had been hidden for years.

But God never left them.

Through faithful friends, family, church community, counseling, and the power of prayer, God slowly restored what seemed impossible. Kellie discovered that healing isn't instant—it happens one day at a time as we continue trusting God through every step.

Today, Kellie uses her testimony to encourage others facing tragedy, loss, fear, or hopelessness. Through her book, Trials, Tragedies & Triumphs, she reminds people that even the deepest pain can become a testimony of God's faithfulness.

Kellie's story is proof that:

• God is present in our darkest moments.
• Healing is a journey, not an event.
• Community and accountability matter.
• Jesus brings peace even when circumstances don't change immediately.
• Hope is stronger than fear.

She encourages listeners to:

• Call on the name of Jesus.
• Stay rooted in God's Word.
• Find a Bible-believing church.
• Allow others to walk beside you.
• Never believe you are facing your trial alone.

Your tragedy does not have to define your future.

God can bring hope, healing, and purpose from even the most unexpected circumstances.

What trial are you trusting God to carry you through today?

Connect with Kellie Spears:

📧 Kellie@coastylehomes.com

📖 Trials, Tragedies & Triumphs is available on Amazon.
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Transcript

Welcome And Hope As Anchor

SPEAKER_01 0:02

Well, welcome. This is Road to Redemption, and I'm Valerie Peterson, and we are so glad you've tuned in today. I have an amazing guest in the studio, and she is an example of overcoming. And I just want to welcome her, and her name is Kelly Spears. Kelly, welcome. Thank you so much, Val, for having me today. It's a pleasure. Well, we have been excited about this show, right? And just talking. It's been so cool just to talk to her about just hope is an anchor. It says in Hebrews 11, hope is an anchor. It keeps us what? Firm and secure. And she is a woman of hope and has gone through tremendous um trials. Yeah. Unexpected trials. Unexpected trials. As we've talked about you, you know, those things that you just never dreamed. Yeah, maybe that was gonna happen, that would ever happen to you.

Meet Kelly Spears And Her Story

SPEAKER_01 0:58

But can you start by telling us a little bit about yourself? You've been married to Tim Spears. Yes. For how many years? We met when we were 15 and 16 years old. Wow. Married at 19 years old. And we've been married 37 years this year. So yes. We have uh three children, three adult children that's still unblessed. They still live here in the area locally, and then we have four wonderful grandchildren.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

So they're all here.

SPEAKER_01 1:22

They're all here. Praise God, they're all here. Except my daughter's getting ready to leave, but to be a mission in another country, but we'll still keep connected and close. So cool that that they're all here, and you are a family that's just so connected. You know, you've gone through a lot, and you've wrote a book and a workbook called Trials, Tragedies, and Triumphs. So here's the book, and here is the workbook to go along with it. And I would love for you to start. Can you can you start and talk a little bit about the accident that you went through? Yeah, so in my book, um, it's about three different parts. So the Lord had spoken to me and he's like, Hey, Kelly, uh, the Holy Spirit said, I want you to write this book. And I'm thinking, write a book. I don't know how to write a book. Like me, you know, what am I gonna say? Um, but the Lord said, you know what, you've gone through some trials and tragedies, as you've mentioned. And he said, I want you to share and give hope and inspiration to others. So in the first part of the book, the first one is our car accident that I talk about. Um, the second part uh chapter I talk about is my weight loss and marital issues that we had in the book. And then the third part is our riding the financial wave with it. But um, yes, to go back to the car accident

The Drunk Driver Crash Aftermath

SPEAKER_01 2:36

part. Um, I was 27 at the time. It was um July 4th weekend. So we're getting ready to even come up here. Um, and it was any ordinary day. And I was just had my second child. Caleb at the time was six weeks old. I'd just gone to the doctor the day before, got my little clearance check up. Life couldn't be better. We had a five-year-old, Jonathan was five, so Caleb was six weeks old. Um, my husband's family was getting ready to all come in to celebrate the 4th of July weekend. So I remember I wrote out all the bills, cleaned the house. Um, I was actually pulling weeds in the garden out there, getting everything looking good. And my husband came in and it's like, hey, Kelly, we just had a second child and we had a small car at the time. And he said, Let's look at getting a bigger vehicle. I'm like, okay, that sounds great. So, of course, we um did some research and we decided we were gonna pick out a car in Fort Walk Beach, um, which was about 45 minutes. We lived in Crestview, Florida at the time. So um, needless to say, that we filled out all the paperwork for our vehicle and it was on a Wednesday night. And at the time, I taught Oakaloosa Release Time, um, which was a program for um public school kids to be able to get Christian values, but they had to go off campus to do it. So I taught that. And my dad was a Baptist minister, and my joke, I can joke about this now at the time, you know, it wasn't all funny all going through all this, but I was supposed to get an award that night at church. And so instead, I'd be in the Baptist background, I skipped church and I went to go get the car instead. So we'll fast forward into the car accident now. So um Jonathan was spied and we decided to leave him with our neighbor, and that's where actually both my husband and I both our memories end. So we dropped him off with our neighbor. We took Caleb with us, and the next thing I remember is waking up to bright lights and going, What's happened? Like, what happened to me? And the lady said, All she said was, ma'am, you've been hit by a drunk driver tonight. And I was like, What? You know, and I was so out of it. Um, and I said, Well, what about my baby? And she said, um, she said, we're actually lifelighting your son. And of course, I'm out of it. Um, nothing's really registering to me. And I'm like, well, can I just kiss him bye? And so I remember they brought me Caleb and I kissed him bye. Um, but the thing that stands out to me really in this part of it is that really it's the only thing I even remember in the entire accident. Our minds go completely blank. And doctors can't explain to this day why both Tim and our memories ended in Crestview, Florida, waiting goodbye to our son.

The Power Of Saying Jesus

SPEAKER_01 5:00

Um, but I remember screaming and crying out, Jesus save us, Jesus save us. I don't, Tim and I don't remember the accident. We don't remember um, you know, you think in your mind you can remember, oh my gosh, did we see the person coming? He hit us from a driver's side head on. He got drunk at a bowling alley in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. And we were a mile from the car, uh car placed by the car uh when it happened. But um, I do remember just screaming out the name of Jesus. And I truly believe to this day that is one reason that the Lord spared our lives. And I want to share it even to the viewers out there that even when we're going through things, and like I don't even remember being able to speak that, but it's how the Holy Spirit kicks in, you know, and he comes through and he uses us and helps us to call out on his name even when we don't even realize it. Um, so speak in the name of Jesus. Jesus is such a powerful, powerful day, and we take it so lightly. We take it, you know, like we just, oh Jesus, thank you for the day or thank you for this. But the Bible says that um I wrote down Malachi 1:14, I mean, there is power in the name of Jesus. He's to be reverenced, but he's also to be feared. But the devil, the Bible says the devil trembles when we call on his name.

SPEAKER_00 6:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

So I truly believe um that when I spoke out and the Holy Spirit allowed me to call out on his name, the devil trembled at that and knew because he had set out to the Bible says, you know, he's a thief to kill, steal, and destroy, right? In John 10, 10. Um, and I truly believe that night we should have died. I mean, paramedics said when they they came to us, they said, you know, it took them two hours to cut us out of the car, child's a black. It was that bad. They had the spray paint to mark our deaths, they said. Um, we were able to meet paramedics later. This is how I learned all this stuff. But um, but yeah, it was that horrific that they had the spray paint to mark us dead. Um, they came around to my side of the car and they said, because it was easier to get into, um, it pushed us from a driver's side impact. And so the dashboard is what actually I took the dashboard, unfortunately. So it like chopped off my my whole knee. There was a hole in it. There was no bones, ligaments, muscles. My mom said, when she arrived at the hospital, she said, Kelly, I pulled down my sheet because they said you've been injured, you know. And she said, I hurry up and cover it. She said, Kelly, there was nothing there. Like you had nothing there. Um, and so it was just, it was crazy just to think that I had gone through all that. And like you just said, you don't expect trials to, you know, we were living the simple life. Yeah. The perfect life. I had it all together. I just had a baby, just had a brand new home, had a husband who had a wonderful job, you know, never expected that an unexpected trial was fixing to hit my life. And that Satan had intended it for harm and to kill us. Um, because my family, I live a legacy, as you know, we've uh talked in the past, but a legacy of um Christian lineage.

unknown 7:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:53

So you sure have. Yes.

Recovery Anger And Needing People

SPEAKER_01 7:57

Talk about your recovery. How did you get through? Because I know it was it was not a quick process. No, no, it was not. When you tell our listeners, how did you get through it? You know, this is the part I say surround yourself with people who are Christians and who truly love the Lord. Because at a it was a time in my life, and it again, we came from both strong Christian backgrounds, but when a tragedy happens, it'll take you either one place or the other. And I never would have dreamed, being from a strong Christian background, that a sudden tragedy would pull me into the opposite direction. And so um, it was through my friends, it was through church family members, it was through people standing in the gap for us, praying for us, because at the time I wasn't able to do that. Um, there was a time in my life, and this is what I want people to hear too. Oh, still gets me. Because as Christians, we're to be strong, you know, we're to be, you got this all together. You will depend on the Lord, you depend on God. But I was angry. I was mad, I was upset. I remember being in a hospital and the Lord like getting mad and angry and just start screaming. And the nurse said she came into my room and she's like, honey, what is it? What's wrong? And I'm like, I'm mad. Why did this happen? Why did this happen to me? You know, I've lived a life serving God. I lived honoring my parents, my did everything the Bible said, and I said, I can't even move, you know. Um, I had to depend on somebody to take care of me. They had to bring me a belt. Um, if I needed to go to the bathroom, I had to bring a bell. Yes. Um, for that. Um, but it was depending on other people, like standing in the gap, praying for me, um, saying, Kelly, you can do this. You and Tim have got this, you know, like call out on us. I didn't want to. I I went through a period of, and I don't know if anybody's listening today, it's so um the world's changed. I mean, this happened what 27 years ago. But we all deal with different things. Like I even went through depression, went through because I again I didn't want to call out on people because of what Satan was whispering and telling me lies into my mind. Um, and that was where my dad stepped in, really. And he again, he was a Baptist minister, and thank God for my dad. Um, and but he would step in and he would say, Just Kelly, I want, and I remember I was laying on the couch in our house and couldn't move. And he said, I want you to start singing songs. And I said, I don't want to sing songs, Dad. I don't want to hear songs. And he said, Kelly, start singing Christian songs. And I'm like, No, Dad, I'm not doing it. And he said, Start, just say the name Jesus. And I said, Dad, he said, say Jesus. And I remember being rebellious, and I remember saying, Oh Jesus, you know, just oh Jesus. And it got louder and I said, He said, say it louder, Kelly. And I said, Jesus, Jesus. And all of a sudden, all the presence, like I felt that peace just wash over me, you know, and so it's just having people that can speak into your life is so it's so important, you know. Because if you're out there listening, know that you're not alone. Like I felt like I was alone. I didn't want to speak to people. I pushed people out of my life because I thought I was it was a pity party. I thought I was the only one dealing with this problem. Like everybody else looking at them, they had smiles on their faces. You're like, oh, they were taking their families here and going to do this and that, and Paul was stuck in a wheelchair, in a bed, couldn't move, had a newborn baby, couldn't take care of him, had a five-year-old, couldn't be the mother I needed, couldn't be the wife I needed to be. So I was having a pity party. Um, so it was so important. And that's the only, I know to this day, that is the only way my husband and I survived, um, even with our marriage issues, was because we had people standing in a gap for us and and pulling on us and pushing us to places that I never even thought I could go to. Can we go with that? So I'm hearing you really say to people, find people. Absolutely, reach out, don't do whatever you're walking through alone. Because you are an example of you you're saying I need people around me. Yes. That's so good. That's so good. Well, because I mean, there were times in my I remember I can still see it so vivid in my mind. Looking laying on the again, laying on the couch, foot move, couldn't walk, um, looking at a clock. And back then we had the old clocks, they would flip and tick, the time would flip by. I remember laying there literally second by second, minute by minute, going, Can I make this another hour, another day? Um, like just to make it through 24 hours, because people would say, Oh, Kelly, you know, a year down the road, you're gonna be so much better and not even remember all this stuff. But listen, when you're going through something, you don't think that way. It's just, you know, it's just making it through the next minute. Yes. And again, it's okay to feel that way. It's not okay to stay in that set of mind frame and let the devil keep you in that part of it, right? And that's where I am so grateful. Like I said, if in my book, I give prompts and and to people who my friends of my church family at the time, family members at the time, um, even strangers at the time, who've spoken to my life and who prayed and stood in the gap for our family with that.

Caleb Survives And A Stranger Prays

SPEAKER_01 13:10

Can you tell our listeners how about your son that was in the car with you? Yes, only six months old, six weeks, six weeks, six weeks old. Yes. So Caleb, um, when the accident happened, they said I sprayed my baby, my baby, and they're like, Oh my gosh, there's a baby in this car. Because again, the car was crushed. The whole the back seat they said um fell on top of Caleb. Um, he was being an infant, you have to be rear facing. So he was rear faced, but they said the windshield exploded and buried him in his car seat. And then the seat fell on top of him, the back seat. So when I they said I was screaming, I don't even remember that far, but they said I was screaming my baby. And so they said they got back there, and here they found Caleb. There was in the backseat. And so Caleb was lifelighted, they told me. Um, and they life lighted him. And the paramedic was out to meet him about three months later. And he told me, he said, he said, ma'am, he said, you know, I'm a raw man, I'm married, I have a family. He said, but when I saw your son, he said, it just tore me up inside. He said, I literally had to go to my parents' house or his parents' house. He said, because I knew the baby was going to die that night. He said, there was no way Caitlin would live that night. And um, I just want to know Caleb to this day. He is 29 years old. He is a very intelligent, smart, loves the Lord. I'm a young man. But yeah, he went in that night dying. So they put the heart shocks on him. He was breeding on bleeding on his brain. But uh three days later, they had to release him. Three days they couldn't find a mark on his body. Nothing wrong with him. And um another incident that happened that's so important as well, is that so my I was blessed because my family lives close by and his my husband's family lives close by. So when the accident happened, my parents came to our hospital because we were in uh Fort Walk Beach Hospital, my husband and I, and then Caleb was last lodged at a Pensacola hospital. So my in-laws went to Pensacola to pick up Caleb, but my mother-in-law, who was a uh college graduate, taught English, could speak very proper, she went to get Caleb out uh out of the car from the hospital when they gave him to him. And some man, he was she said he was probably around 27 years old. He stopped her and he said, Ma'am, may I pray for this baby? And my mother-in-law, you know, this is a stranger, she didn't know him. And she said he placed his hands on Caleb and she said, Bow, she said, the prayer that came out of his mouth. She said, the words that he spoke. I mean, he looked like a filthy bum, she said, like just like you thought he was a bum off the road. And so she was leery at first, you know, like, okay, you're doing why? You want to pray for this child, you know? Yeah. Um, but she said, sure. So but she said the words that flowed out of his mouth were just so touching. And then he looked at her at the end of the prayer and he said, He he touched, you said he touched her hand and said, I want to assure you that Tim and Kelly are gonna be just fine. Now, you tell me. She never mentioned our name. He didn't never even mention that we were in the hospital, and so you know that was an angel. Oh my gosh. I mean, that's to do this still still sends chillbox down me to think about, you know, that an angel, and so it says in um where's it, where's it say my mom always went with the verse of the Bible, but we never know when we're entertaining angels.

SPEAKER_02 16:19

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:20

And so I've always taught my children that because even with this situation, because if you don't know how someone's dressed or their parents or what they look like, that how we are when an angel may we may encounter an angel, exactly, and how we're gonna react to that part of it. But um, that was just I'm just blessed to know that God loves us enough to send some stranger, an angel, um, to assure my in-laws that we were gonna be fine, that we were gonna have a story to tell of redemption down the road to give other people hope and encouragement.

Learning To Walk And Wait Well

SPEAKER_01 16:50

Well, you know, I'm I'm thinking of the verse in Micah 7:8. It says, Don't gloat over me, my enemies, when I have fallen, for I shall arise. And you are an example of like, can you tell the process of how long did it take to be able to walk again? You know, so we back then things were a lot different. Insurance companies were a lot different. So we actually was only in the hospital for a matter, I think like six days, four, maybe even four days. It was crazy to look back. Um, so they released us from the hospital. Um yeah, could not move, could not walk, had to have somebody completely take care of me. It took me probably about six months to learn how to walk again. So I I I remember in my mind, uh, I can still see my living room in my mind, the very first time my husband and I took hands, and he's like, You can do this, Kelly, you can take a step. Like I literally, they had to teach me how to rebend, how the my muscles didn't move anymore. So they had to literally, like a baby, teach me how to take steps. And so at the time we had a swimming pool, and um you weigh less than a swimming pool, so the weight, you don't put so much weight on you. So I would sneak out. I wasn't supposed to by myself, um, but I would sneak out because I was so determined I wanted to walk again. And I would get, and that's how I would practice because you, Mickey and you don't put that weight on your legs doing that, and I would just slowly learn to do that, but um, but yeah, it took about a six month process. You know, we talked before the show about we live in such an instant society, things come so quickly, and how we've got to learn to wait well. Yes, and you talk about that, you had to wait. I had to wait, had to wait. And waiting, I am a as you can tell, I am a let's go type of person. So waiting was very difficult, so difficult. I having somebody completely have to take care of me. I mean, like I had to, we ended up hiring a home health nurse because again, stress uh you don't realize the stress and trauma when a tragedy takes place, it happens with you. So my husband hired a home health nurse to take care of me. Um, so I had to again wait on somebody to do anything that I wanted to. And it was very difficult. Um, my pride to learn to let go of myself and let learn to let other people through Jesus take learn to take care of me. Um, that was hard. That's a very difficult thing to do. And so often when we go through such trauma, what happens is we grieve over what should be. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm looking at you with some of the anger, part of the grieving process of, and someone may be going through this right now, right? Just this was not supposed to be. My life shouldn't be going this way, and suddenly it's going that way in a moment's time. Yeah. Can you speak to that person that is going through grief, they're grieving over what they're walking through right now?

Grief Fear And Marriage Under Pressure

SPEAKER_01 19:50

Yeah. Again, my advice to you is it's daily. It's a daily, it's I I tell people in my book, I think of the word daily, I don't know how many times. And it's not just daily, it's multiple times a day. Um, learning to again call out on the name of Jesus, you know, like speak to him. He knows our heart, he knows everything about us. Um, so it's okay. Tell him when you're angry. I was frustrated, I was mad, I was heart. I was like you just said, this was not supposed to happen to me. Um, but he knows our heart. And so it's okay to God wants us to come to him, he wants us to run to him, you know, even with our anger or frustration. Exactly. Because he's the only one that could give us peace, you know. And looking back, I mean, I look back when I was laying in that bed and my mom and dad, um, in fact, my my parents um they tricked me because I didn't want to get in a car again. I was terrified. I was fearful of getting in a car again. So at the time I had a big uh van, they had to because my legs stuck straight out from my cast, and of course I didn't, I had all kinds of other injuries as well. Um, but I didn't want to get in a small car again. So my parents said, you know what? Today you're gonna get your past out, Kelly. But they drove up in a small car. And they said, the only way you're gonna get this off is if you get in this car and face your fear, and I'm gonna take you to the hospital and do that. Um, so I was angry with them for a little bit, but I'm very grateful that um that they forced me to face one of my fears and to walk through one of my fears with doing that of it. But but yeah, if you're you know, you're out there and you're listening to this today, again, my you're not alone. That you know, cling to God, find a friend, find someone um who will be your stamina the guy for you because I didn't know how to at the time. Yes, I really didn't. I didn't hit rock bottom, like seriously. And here I was a strong Christian vow. It can happen to anybody. I mean, I never thought I would be here today. People look at me when I tell my story and I speak and they look at me and oh, brings tears to my eyes. They say, but you have a smile on your face. And I said, Yeah, but guess what? There were days when I begged God to die. There were days when I literally said, God, I cannot do this anymore. Just take me. I can't bear the burdens that I'm going with. I know we're only talking about my car accident right now, but right now, when you get the book, you'll read there's so much more. I mean, there was marital issues that that stress and trauma that I didn't even realize brought marital issues to the surface that have been hidden for years. Um, again, we come from my husband, my dad's a pastor, my husband's were missionary family. Um, but we went through marital issues through this. I mean, it brought out things that were ugly. It came a time that Tim and I were actually um I was in my wheelchair at the time. Um this was probably two months after our accident happened, and we couldn't even be in the same room together. Like, you know, this was our seventh year marriage, but we were just, it just brought so much stuff to the surface that was buried that I didn't realize as a wife he was harboring, and vice versa, he didn't realize stuff issues. Uh I was harboring in me, but this all brought it to the surface. And yeah, I mean, we had to go through counseling. We it was pride too. Be coming from as a Christian, you're not supposed to have anything wrong about we're supposed to have it all together, right?

SPEAKER_00 23:09

But we don't, we don't, we don't, right? Nobody does, and if they do, if they tell you they do, trust me, they are not telling you the truth, right?

SPEAKER_01 23:18

Um, you I I do want to ask, I know we have the close

Book Resources And Closing Prayer

SPEAKER_01 23:22

out here. Is if anyone wanted to get in touch with you, how could they? You know, my email is uh, I don't know if we have a p I don't have a website anymore, but it's Kelly, K E L L I E at Coastylehomes.com. And that's that was C O A S T Y L E H O M E S dot com. I would love for you to email me. I love for you to reach out. Um and if anyone wanted to get her book and workbook, yes, can you tell them how? Yes. So would you actually it's on Amazon? So all you have to do is go to Amazon. You type in trials, tragedies, and trials. Make sure you do the little amphib stand here because um there's another book that's also out there from another author, but mine will pop up. But you know, it's just this whole book is about hope and inspiration. It's all in the back of the book. I love it. It's probably I was telling Val earlier, it's probably one of my favorite things is I did 10 devotions in the back of the book, and it's just things that you can biblically apply to your life, um, everyday principles, things that we all walk through. It may not be a tragedy that you're going through, but it's something that you can apply to your life just to give you hope and inspiration, you know, just for the day, even in and putting on the spiritual armor, the battle of Christ, putting on that, you know, the belt of truth, the the helmet of salvation, the sp the sword to fight off the devil because the enemy's gonna bring those darts to you. He's, I mean, that's so important every morning to get up and just to pray. Hey, Lord, just put on your armor. Let me put on your armor to fight whatever battle the devil's gonna bring to you that day. And before we close out in prayer, we would love to remind you the three pillars that we love to say on road to redemption. And number one is get in the word. Amen. Amen. The word, there's something about the word of God that is gonna heal your heart and help you through whatever you're walking through. Powerful. Two, find a good church where you're gonna hear the word and you can, there's something about joining together with others. That corporate anointing is powerful. And third, there's something about accountability, which Kelly has been talking about. Find a group, small group, find accountability so people are gonna walk through whatever you're walking through shoulder to shoulder with you. Yes, I'm gonna open in prayer. I want you to close out. Father God, thank you for Kelly and thank you for her testimony and her willingness to come on today. Father God, thank you for the people that are listening in, that may be walking through tremendous situational stressors right now. Father God, Kelly and I ask you help them. You're there for them, you give them wisdom on whom can walk beside them as they're going through a valley. Father God, we just thank you. We thank you for them and that you're gonna be their helper. Amen. God, I just again agree with what Val just said, Lord. I just pray for whoever's hearing this today, Lord, that you just speak to their spirit, God. Lord, give them hope, give them encouragement, God. Let them know that they are not alone. Lord, that you never leave us, you never forsake us, Father God, that you are there with us. You created us for a purpose, for a plan, and you have a wonderful plan, Lord, for their life, even if they may not even see it right now. God, let them know, let them feel your presence, Father. Let them feel your Holy Spirit. Wrap your arms around them, God, and give them peace, give them strength, God. And I just pray that you do give them that person that can speak encouragement into their life, Lord. Let them know that they are loved and that we love them, Father God. In Jesus' name we pray. Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.