O’Shea Lowery said trials “are no respecter of persons.” That’s why her new devotional book is for everyone.
“Lord, Please Help Me: God’s Truth & Light for Dark Times” started out as a series of blogs that stretched out over years during difficult circumstances.
Lowery, executive director of Entrusted Hope Ministries, said she wanted the book’s 30 devotionals to do just what the blogs did — contain the “blood, sweat and tears of what I went through, what I faced and how God brought me through it and what He taught me in it.”
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Part of that story is about her journey with her mom, who was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia and recently died. “Lord, Please Help Me” is dedicated to her.
Throughout the book, Lowery shares personal experiences of walking through suffering, believing that “we don’t go through anything in vain.”
“God always uses it — if we will let Him — to help others,” she said.
Lowery, who has a master’s degree in counseling and a doctorate in family ministries, said her stories portray the times when her cries for help were met with God’s healing, grace and peace, a reality she hopes others can find in their own lives.
“When we cry out to God, His truth meets us in our brokenness, transforming our hearts, souls and minds,” she said.
Crying out to God for help
She shares biblical stories to illustrate that too, such as the story of Hagar from Genesis 21. When Hagar was rejected by Abraham and Sarah and sent away into the desert, she cried out to God for help, and He opened her eyes to see a well of water.
Lowery said one day in the midst of a post-rainstorm mess at her mom’s house, He opened her own eyes to see some tall yellow flowers growing amid the water. To her, those flowers were a blessing, a symbol of what He was also working out in her own life — beauty that is present even when times are difficult.
“In the midst of these troubling times, God’s light pierces through the darkness of our despair, bringing hope and lasting change,” she said.
Book launch parties for “Lord, Please Help Me” will be held in July in Alabama and Mississippi. For more information, visit entrustedhopeministries.org.
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