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a shift, a surrender, and a new beginning As I sit in this moment, turning the pages of my life with a gentleness and certainty I can’t ignore What once felt like an ending has revealed itself as the doorway to a new chapter, one I am stepping into with faith, clarity, and a renewed sense of purpose. This season has taught me that transformation rarely announces itself. It arrives quietly, in the press, in the stretching, in the moments when you wonder if you’ll ever see the promise fulfilled But even in the uncertainty, God was writing. He was shaping. He was preparing me for a version of myself I hadn’t yet met.
As you read these pages, my prayer is that you feel empowered to release what no longer serves you, embrace the unknown, and step boldly into the new. You are not behind. You are not forgotten. You are being positioned.
Welcome to a new chapter for me, for this magazine, and for every woman who dares to believe that her story is still unfolding. With love, faith, and expectation,
Myra Skelton Editor-in-Chief
Picture by: Brandon Geer
Turning The Page
There comes a moment in every woman’s life when she realizes she can no longer live in the shadows of who she used to be. A moment when the old chapter has nothing left to teach her, and the new one is calling her by name. I am standing in that moment now not timidly, not uncertainly, but boldly, with my head lifted and my faith anchored. This season is not about who I was. It’s about who I am becoming.
I’ve walked through valleys that tried to silence me, seasons that pressed me, stretched me, and refined me. But I made it through not by my own strength, but by the power of the Holy Spirit guiding every step. Nothing I endured was wasted. Every lesson, every tear, every closed door became preparation for today.
God told me to walk by faith and keep my head up, even when I didn’t understand the path. And now, here I am turning the page, stepping into the unknown with confidence, standing tall in Him, ready for the new chapter He has written for my life.
It’s about walking in victory. It’s about honoring the journey, embracing the transformation, and declaring to every woman reading: you can turn the page too.
There is a sacred shift that happens when a woman decides she will no longer apologize for her becoming. When she stops dimming her light to make others comfortable. When she stops rehearsing old battles and finally releases the weight of what was. That shift is where I am standing now in the doorway between the life I’ve lived and the life God is calling me into.
This new chapter didn’t arrive quietly. It came after a press, after a stretching, after nights when I wondered if I should keep going. But even in the moments when I felt defeated, the Holy Spirit filled me with strength I didn’t know I had. He was teaching me to trust HIM, to walk with my head lifted, and to believe that every ending was simply preparation for a beginning.
I’ve learned that faith isn’t just believing God can do it it’s believing He can do it through you. It’s choosing to stand tall even when the ground beneath you feels unfamiliar. It’s choosing to move forward even when the path is unmarked. It’s choosing to say, “Lord, I trust your leadership.”
And so I turn the page.
Turning The Page
Not because the last chapter was a failure, but because it fulfilled its purpose. Not because I’m running from anything, but because I’m running toward everything God has promised. I am stepping into the unknown with confidence, with joy, and with a heart that has been refined by grace.
This cover is more than a photograph. It is a marker. A memorial. A declaration that I survived what was meant to break me and emerged wiser, stronger, and more aligned with God’s voice than ever before.
I am walking into the new not by sight, not by my own understanding, but by faith. And I am blessed for the journey that brought me here! Amen
“I’m
turning the page — not because the last chapter failed, but because it fulfilled its purpose.”
“I’m stepping into the unknown with confidence, joy, and a heart refined by grace.”
“THE LAST SUPPER”
How do you know you are at the elevations point? A death happens! While going through the day these words “last supper” kept coming to mind. In times past when I would here these words anxiety would suddenly kick in and I would run out and buy my favorite food. thinking I am never going to taste this again, let me try it one more time. And would almost put myself in a sad depressed state over the loss of the taste of certain foods because I wasn’t ready to let it go.
But this time it was different. Could it be that, this time I am finally ready? When I heard those words this time I went to my bible. and began to read all that happened before and during the last supper for Jesus.
Behind the sences chief priest, scribes, elders unto the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. discuss that they might take Jesus subtily and kill him. (Matthew 26)
Then there were men hating on the woman oiling Jesus head, and Judas sitting at the table with the high priest seeing how much he can get paid to help them. Meanwhile Jesus knows all that is happening and tells the disciples to prepare for the passover.
Do this sound like a familiar story in your time-line? It certainly sounds like one of mine.
Jesus and the disciple come together and He says that one of them will betray Him. And Peter will deny him three times.
Everything close turns and life is disrupted right before the death. It’s crazy because the enemy still uses this same tactic thinking he is stopping something from being, but only causing Gods people to ascend.
So, no longer will I fear or morn over the last supper instead I will celibrat knowing there is victory on the other side of the last super the passover. Passing over the threshole to the other side.
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God's Word is a Light to our Path - Psalms 119:105
BookOfGenesis
Gen 26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
Gen 26:2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
Gen 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
Gen 26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
Gen 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Isaac and Abimelech
Gen 26:6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
Gen 26:7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
Gen 26:8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
Gen 26:9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
Genesis 26
Gen 26:10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
Gen 26:11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
Gen 26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
Gen 26:13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
Gen 26:14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
Gen 26:15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
Gen 26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
Gen 26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
Gen 26:18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
Gen 26:19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
Gen 26:20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
Gen 26:21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
Gen 26:22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
Gen 26:23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
Gen 26:24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
Gen 26:25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
Gen 26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
Gen 26:27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
Gen 26:28 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
Gen 26:29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
Gen 26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
Gen 26:31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Genesis 26-27
Gen 26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
Gen 26:33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
Gen 26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Gen 26:35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
Gen 27:1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
Gen 27:2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
Gen 27:3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;
Gen 27:4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Gen 27:5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
Gen 27:6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
Gen 27:7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
Gen 27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
Gen 27:9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
Gen 27:10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
Gen 27:11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
Gen 27:12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
Gen 27:13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
Gen 27:14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
Gen 27:15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
Gen 27:16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
Gen 27:17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
Gen 27:18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?
Gen 27:19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Gen 27:20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me.
Gen 27:21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.
Gen 27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Gen 27:23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
Gen 27:24 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
Gen 27:25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.
Gen 27:26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
Gen 27:27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
Gen 27:28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
Gen 27:29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Gen 27:30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
Gen 27:31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Gen 27:32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
Gen 27:33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.
Genesis 27
Gen 27:34 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.
Gen 27:35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
Gen 27:36 And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
Gen 27:37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
Gen 27:38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
Gen 27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
Gen 27:40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Gen 27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Gen 27:42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.
Gen 27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
Gen 27:44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;
Gen 27:45 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
Gen 27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
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