Well I’m Not ALONE!

I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of the comments regarding my post last week. Apparently, we are all going through it right now. My heart breaks for all of you. But I also am so proud of you. So many of you have faced VERY difficult challenges. Yet, you are still standing!!!

The devils end game is for us to throw in the towel and give up. But I ask you, do you speak this scripture out when you feel at your wits end?

But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. – John 6:68

Your struggles and even what feels like defeats or failures are never lost. Nor do they remain unredeemed. Everything about our Father is love and redemption. What the devil intends for evil, is redeemed. And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28)

So, you may ask, What does that actually look like?

I’m so glad you asked. Because right along with you, I’ve lived this out, AGAIN, this past summer.

I’m going to share what occurred over the summer months. And share with you what the real battle was about. You may have prayed for healing or peace or salvations, etc. But this is NOT what the battle was about.

To start the story, I broke my wrist on July 2nd. If you didn’t see the photo earlier, it was gnarly. Ugh!

Talk about pain.

The distal bone at the end of my wrist was shattered. It would require surgery. The Ulna also fractured and broke off the tip. It took two weeks to work me into the surgery schedule. Grrrr So basically, they refracture my wrist two weeks later.

THAT pain was truly intense.

What happened next was…..

I sat in my chair.

I sat. And I sat again. Watching the weeds grow in the back garden, unable to get up and pull them. My tomatoes were picked by Mike and given away. I couldn’t do a thing but ice and elevate.

So, I sat in my chair. I thought. I prayed. I Netflixed. Ugh.

Okay, this is the beginning of the story. I’ll share with you in the next post what got me out of the chair.

I’m curious, did you also feel like these challenges and pain would never stop? Did you feel like you couldn’t handle one more thing? I had a number of other issues that also happened during this time. One-month earlier Mike lost his job.

Did what you faced feel relentless and overwhelming?

See you in the comments. Love you. Stay tuned because this story is fantastic. Love and blessings, Lynn

4 responses to “Well I’m Not ALONE!”

Noreen Taylor

October 13, 2025

Dearest Lynn, I didn’t comment in your last post, but my dear friend, I have been right in the battle with you and others. While those of us Summites face a different battle, I have seen more attacks with illness upon other’s . Here in our home my battle has been again the spirit of division between hubby and I and also every time he talks to his brother, he ends up be attacked by the spirit of poverty. In fact, as soon as he gets off the phone, the fear of running out of money becomes his focus. This is due to what his older brother’s life situation is. Also, my youngest daughter’s husband got West Nile three years ago and they have dealt with the long term effects of that. He got another case in June and then at the end of July got Covid again and found out he has long Covid. He is only 45 and has a stressful job. I truly know this is warfare and an attack from how his parents broke off their relationship with our daughters family. Many times he can’t even interact when he gets home from work because of how much his brain and head hurt. His five children have seen the results and remember what he was like before West Nike and what he’s like now. Both my daughters families attend the same church and have been praying four nights a week for revival.
So, thank you for sharing what you have been going through. Sending love and prayers to you and those that share here.
💕 Noreen

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1. Lynn Donovan, 2024
  
  November 3, 2025
  
  Wow Noreen,
  
  So much is happening in your life as well. Good Lord Jesus. We need help. I know that your faith will hold you up. We have walked this faith life for so long, there is no turning back!!!!!
  
  Don’t stop praying for your family. It truly makes a difference. Love you so very much. Lynn
  
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Lisa Phillips

October 23, 2025

Yes, I can so relate. For 6 years, I felt under an intense spiritual attack? Why? Because I had just signed a book contract with a publisher and my book is my memoir about losing the parental blessing from my mother who has gone for decades with untreated mental illnessas. As a teenager, her conditioned turned very dark, dangerous and scary for me,
and ultimately she disowned me, but even though I didn’t have my mother’s unconditional love and approval, I did have my faith and when it seemed the Lord was silent, He was actually planningy way of eacape. The story is about 3-generations of mothers and daughters and my battle to have a mother in my life. But, as God takes me through a spiritual desert of rejection, He had a biblical promise for me that unfolded in a very unusual way. And once it did, God began to pour into my life and all kinds of things began to change for me. But as soon as I began writing the book about my healing and restoration, and what God did, the devil went to work on my health – trying to discourage me, trying to stop me. It began with foot problems. Developed Plantar Fasciitis, then a pinched nerve in the right foot. Needed surgery. But a week before surgery I learned I had breast cancer. So 3 weeks after foot surgery, I had surgery to remove the aggressive cancer and a week before that our daughter got married. I was in a wheelchair. But the devil kept going. I had to have another foot surgery for a flattened tendon in the same foot. Then I developed Trigger Finger in 2 of my fingers on my right hand, then Trigger Thumb in both hands so 3 more surgeries, one each year. Then another surgery for a torn ligament , (which I have no idea how that happened as I was recovering from the other foot surgeries). While recovering from that, my daughter (age 35) had a stroke-like event. She has what’s called Cavernous Malformations just above her brain stem. These are mul-berry size cluster of blood vessels that are so rare that nobody really knows how they develop or what causes them to burst but she had them in birth. She had to learn to walk, talk, swallow all over again and her eyesight is permanently affected in one eye. She is about 85% back to normal but specialist say that is as far as it will go. The real issue now is that the only way they can be removed is if she has more stroke-like events so that the blood creates a path that pushes the two sides of the brain apart just enough for a surgeon to get up there to take them out. So it’s a catch 22. Who wants to have more strokes? And every year her chances of a stroke increase by 5%. So this year it’s 10% and next year it is 15% and so on. Her medical crisis stopped my progress on my book, but I didn’t quit. I took several months off to help with her recovery and take care of our 3-year old granddaughter, but then, I got stung by a bee and didn’t know I was allergic. I ended up in the ER with about 10-minutes of breathing left. I recovered from that and went back to writing, knowing the devil was hard at work thinking of what his next tactic on me would be. But I did get discouraged. I couldn’t exercise, work in my garden, travel or even take a walk, for 6 years. It was a very dry season. And then this summer (July 24th) carpal tunnel surgery and then again in August for other hand. Six years after starting my book I finished. My publisher, a Christian totally understood and was very patient with me. My book is now a 3-book memoir. Book One just released in August. But I think what the Lord taught me during those trying times was building my perseverance, faith in trusting His plan and overcoming thoughts of quitting. But one thing I did notice. God gave me a fresh determination. The more the devil threw at me, I just dug in even more. I was determined to win. And I reminded the devil of that. When God gives you a calling/purpose, pray for a holy determination.

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1. lynndonovan2025
  
  October 25, 2025
  
  Lisa, this is just unfathomable. I’m so sorry you have walked through all of this craziness. You are right that the enemy has wanted to take aim to keep you from writing that book.
  
  You’re right everything about the kingdom is persistence. Well done, good and faithful servant.
  
  Thanks for sharing your testimony here. God bless you love and hugs, Lynn.
  
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