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✦ Meet Denice

A daughter God delights in.{" "} Still seeking His presence.

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."

Joshua 1:9

"I sincerely want to help people find truthful answers to their questions — using Scripture, experience, and compassion — to find a path restored for the remainder of their lives. Answers can be discovered by sincerely seeking God. He wants to be found. Let's reveal His path together."

I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior at six years old. And for a long time afterward, I lived the way a lot of us do: I went to God in my times of crisis or need, and kept Him out of control in between. I acted like a Christian — a good teenager, church work, religious activities, a law-abiding citizen, mother, and wife — but I was not Spirit-led.

A few times in my life I came to the end of myself. One of those was as I approached my thirtieth birthday. I had achieved so many of my goals and dreams, and something was still missing. I got right with God, and He graciously restored our relationship. Years later came a harder crisis: my first marriage was falling apart, and I knew I could not live a double life — one of them so far away from God. In 2011 we divorced. From that time on, I chose to follow hard after God.

Then God gave me a gift I hadn't dared expect: shortly after the divorce I met and married a Godly man, and we had ten years together. I got to see God's design for marriage, and to let Him heal the hurts of the first one. It was a second chance I will always be grateful for.

And then, suddenly, my husband died. Sudden death of someone you love that much sends your world into chaos. I had witnessed death as a nurse; I had lost older relatives. But no one this close. I cried a lot. My body went on, but my heart was heavy and torn. I studied Scripture, theology, grief books — I prayed and tried to understand God's plan in it. Many people offered comfort, but most could not comprehend what I was feeling. I still believed in God's goodness. I just didn't want to live through whatever it was going to take, for however long it was going to take.

God's presence is what has carried me through — through the grief, and through the fears that came with it: financial security, loneliness, church ministry, family life in a multigenerational home. I attended a GriefShare group, and eventually began facilitating those sessions. Helping others has helped me. My questions about grief and suffering have changed along the way: I no longer encourage myself or others to demand "why" from God. We need time, and perspective, and most of all His presence.

That is what Restoring Paths is. Not a program I read about — the road I am still walking. I rely on God, and He is faithful. His presence is the most valuable thing in the world to me now, and helping you find yours restored is the work I believe He has given me.

— Denice
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✦ What I stand for

The foundations{" "} of this work.

Firm, but inviting. Warm, and honest. Every conversation I have rests on these three convictions about God, grief, and the path He restores.

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✦ Background & credentials

Lived, studied, and{" "} still learning.

I'm not going to hand you a certificate wall. What I bring is a nursing career, years of grief ministry, a life anchored in Scripture — and a road I have actually walked. It is a circumstance that is irreversible, and I understand that from the inside.

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