but God (eBook)

"Ashley's fi rst book is a powerful testament to divine intervention and redemption. Through raw, honest stories of brokenness and restoration, she reminds us that no life is beyond God's reach and no circumstance beyond His power to redeem." MAXIE DUNNAM Minister-at-Large, Christ Methodist Church Memphis, Fifth President of Asbury Theological Seminary, and author of over forty books When you're playing hide-and-seek, you look for the best hiding spot, so you won't be found. And when it's time to run to the base, you scan the path ahead, hoping it's clear. Sometimes, however, the seeker comes from behind and catches you before you ever see them coming. Julie had been playing a real-life version of hide-and-seek with the police. She knew there were at least three active warrants out for her arrest. She ran away from home; and soon, her world became one of buying, selling, and using drugs. At one court hearing, she was told she had been in and out of jail twenty-one times. Even that extraordinary discovery didn't stop her. Then came the night everything changed. Julie walked out of a motel after a drug deal, heading for her car, when, suddenly, black SUVs swarmed the lot. A helicopter hovered overhead. She jumped in her car, desperate to escape, but it was too late. Surrounded by offi cers, she was pulled from her car through the window. One of them looked at her and said, "We've got you now." And in that moment, Julie thought, It's fi nally over. I can stop running. She had been unaware when or where she would inevitably be caught, but God knew it was time for her to stop running from the police and start running toward Him.