Chantelle Smith

The Process Chantelle Smith

She is a very resilient woman, always seeming to bounce back from the odds against her. She has overcome a lot already in life, so these new obstacles would not be any different. What she didn't know was that God was stretching her capacity to go through some of the most challenging circumstances in life, and it all involved how strong she was in her faith.

It's not fair that she had to experience the rigamarole of just wanting to know everything was going to be ok. She had just gotten fired from her job and left her church ministry after becoming isolated from family and friends by her husband. She only wished her husband would love her the way she was willing to love him despite the loss of their children and his manipulation and control. Would he love her right? Did he even know how? Why should she have even cared? Masked with generational curses and childhood experiences, she wondered and waited in belief that something would change.

Hope and resiliency are always accompanied by a process that must be developed over a period of time. As dysfunctional as that decade was, she knew there was a bigger purpose in experiencing it seemingly alone as several nights were entrapped with wet pillows from the puddles her tears left. The hard part of seeing the bigger purpose was that she had to be willing to go through--The Process. Breaking ground by healing the wounds of her past, she now tells her story.