168: Sarah Geringer and Transforming Your Thought Life

Sarah Geringer is a blogger, speaker and author of Transforming Your Thought Life: Christian Meditation in Focus. Today, Sarah shares how the Lord helped her overcome depression, why being a child of divorce stinks, and how she invested in her dream to become a writer. Sarah’s practice of Christian meditation using Scripture is a wonderful tool that will help you focus your thoughts in productive directions. If you are struggling with run away thoughts, Sarah’s story will encourage you because victory is possible.

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Stories Sarah shared:

Growing up in the middle of the Bible belt
The heritage of faith in her family
How her church and school class became her family after her parent’s divorce
The shock of public school
Giving her life to Christ and experiencing the peace of the presence
Losing her best friend when she moved away
Hearing the Spirit tell her she didn’t have to think suicidal thoughts anymore
Experiencing relationship with Jesus
The battlefield of the university classroom
Giving up her scholarship to go to a different school
Realizing marriage does not solve loneliness
How being a child of divorce affected her
Deciding to invest in herself with a writing
Publishing her first traditionally published book

Great quotes from Sarah:

I knew his presence felt warm and comforting.

If you start with his Word then you start recognizing his voice. Then you can grow a very close an intimate relationship with him. His Word is the doorway to a deeper relationship with him.

I realized marriage is not the solution for loneliness and that was a crushing disappointment.

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Resources we mentioned:

Sarah’s website
Sarah’s blog on divorce as Living Death
Transforming Your Thought Life: Christian Meditation in Focus by Sarah Geringer
Living in the Power of the Holy Spirit by Charles Stanley
The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges
Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World by Michael Hyatt
Chandler Bolt’s Self-Publishing School blog
She Speaks Conference

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