Rebecca Carey Lyles shares her friend's release from co-dependency today. Both Becky and I pray that the sharing of this story encourages you or someone you love who's life has fallen apart due to poor choices. New beginnings do happen.
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| Author Rebecca Carey Lyles |
My Friend, Maika by Becky Lyles
My friend Maika says she was a believer in
Jesus Christ before she landed in jail, but she’d never surrendered to God. She
doesn’t hesitate to say it took “extreme deception” and a “huge mistake” to
wake her up to face the truth “that surrender is the only way He can use me and
mold me into His vessel of honor.”
Following a difficult divorce, she not only
broke a custody order involving her seven-year-old son, she left the country
with him, crossing several borders illegally, and was charged with parental
kidnapping. When Interpol found her over a year later, she turned herself in at
the American embassy and was extradited back to her home town in the States.
After many long months behind bars, she was released to a faith-based
transitional home/program for women.
Maika says the program “provided a
tremendous base of support in my journey to reestablish my relationship with
God, to receive inner healing, and to work toward seeing my son again. Fear and
codependency caused me to make some very poor choices. Fear completely
controlled my behavior. I put rational thinking to the side and acted
irrationally.
“If you don’t balance intellect and fear,
you get into trouble. Fear takes over and supersedes your intellect, mind and
rational thinking, and you can’t make good decisions. Intellect, emotion,
spirit and body – we need the whole package for important decisions.”
Today, with God’s help, Maika’s life is
being restored. “I have a job that I love and a home of my own. I have a strong
support system through my church and the people I met in the transitional
program. Although I’m still on parole, I’m working with
the court system to reunite with my son, and soon I will be starting a
business. I give God all the glory, and I thank him for a ministry that helps
women change their lives.”
Becky Lyle is the author of the following novels.
How you can contact Becky Lyles
http://www.beckylyles.com
widgetwords.wordpress.com
Facebook: Becky Lyles or Rebecca Carey Lyles
Twitter: @BeckyLyles
LinkedIn: Becky Lyles
http://www.amazon.com/Winds-
[Winds of Freedom will hopefully release soon.]
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