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Carol Koppelman
A Circuitous Mess
My name is Carol Koppelman from Goodyear, Arizona, and I am CEO of CPK Solutions, LLC, specializing in editing books, procedures, and proposals I also provide corporate and technical writing consulting services In addition, I am a Branch Director for Park Lane Jewelry
Within the context of my work as an editor, I love helping people find their unique, authentic voice As a multiple best-selling author, I love to craft stories. As a technical and corporate writer, I love translating complex ideas into simple, understandable text. As a jewelry consultant, I love to help women enhance their wardrobe and makeup through beautiful, designer-inspired jewelry.
Although I’ve never been a biological mother due to endometriosis, my heart is centered on advocating for children. I am currently a NICU cuddler, I was a cuddler at an orphanage, and I was a foster parent One of my long-term goals is to help create state and eventually, nationwide societal infrastructure to support single young women who are beginning their parenting journey
My chapter is about the circuitous path that brought me to a closer, FUSED relationship with God. In my nearly seven decades on Earth, I’ve tried nearly everything, and have made some great decisions and some very poor decisions While I thought I was having a great time, I was pretty much led by my emotions and hormones, and often felt spiritually empty. I made some bad choices with boyfriends, some jobs, and some living situations. I’ve lived in luxury, and I’ve lived in poverty, both metaphorically and literally. I didn’t rely on the Lord for my direction, which intrinsically is logic with heart, often to my own regret. But my faith in God has always been consistent. It just wasn’t very deep.
A difficult and eventually broken first marriage and subsequent depression brought me a little closer to God, but it wasn’t until the past year that life brought me flat on my stomach and then back to my knees My father unexpectedly died last year, my mother required a lot of emotional support, caregiving, and advocacy, my current husband had two long stays in the hospital, and under the pressure, I was at the edge of emotional breakdown.
Luckily, I had some very good Christian friends who helped me navigate this new terrain It wasn’t until one of them told me about “fusing” with someone (meaning being so connected emotionally that you aren’t a separate individual), that I realized that in my attempt to help people, particularly family, I often would fuse to them and that wasn’t serving them or me. I thought, why don’t I fuse to God – He’ll never hurt me. It’s safe to be fully connected with God because He will lift me up and direct my course.
And I was right!
God did lead me to focus on Him and Him alone and thank God my husband’s spiritual journey amidst his hospital stays aligned with my spiritual journey We were and are equally yoked.
God also led me to get some Christ-focused therapy, which, along with prayer, is healing me beyond anything I can imagine. Because God always gives us more!
I hope that my story will help someone else fuse to God and make Him first in their life. No person, no possession, no distraction, will ever fill us the way God’s love will.
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