Adjusting to a family of 12, I have encountered more physical and emotional circumstances than I am used to all in one year. At times, it felt like wave after wave hitting me while I would come up for short breaths, but somehow God used mentors and people of Northlands to give me prophetic words, pictures, transforming prayers to sustain me and fight against what was coming at me. God renewed hope through each circumstance and deliverance in many. He gave me the patience, the love, and perseverance that I needed to continually have a full cup to pour out.