Raised, Restored, Released: How God turned my sorrow into Joy

By Rachel Sampy

This is the story of how my life was radically changed forever by the loss of my mother. Grief and pain began to overtake me until God healed me and put the pieces of my broken heart back together again, as if I was never hurt in the first place. To whomever reads this, whether you've been stricken with grief of some kind or experienced great lo

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Nov 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798887380148

Rachel Sampy

I want to formally introduce myself. My name is Rachel, and I am a first-time Author/Writer. I grew up with both my parents, who were married for thirty years. My father is a pastor and minister of the gospel, and my mother was a praise and worship leader, for whom I was one of her backup singers. A nurse from Louisiana, I moved to Dallas, TX, shortly after the loss of my mother. Out of my pain, I was pushed into purpose and birthed my first book: RAISED, RESTORED, RELEASED. Grief is just another word for a broken heart, and it's a lie from the enemy to have you believe you'll always feel this way. It's natural and totally human for us to feel pain and to hurt, but we don't have to stay there. There is another life for you on the other side of it. It IS possible to be healed, because God can redeem you and wants to crown you with His love and compassion, as He did me. I suffered and dealt with depression, suicidal thoughts, and a loneliness that's hard to put into words. I just assumed that grief was common and that I would always feel that way; that I was supposed to feel like that. Until God came and changed my life by taking the grief from me. I now have a newfound meaning for my life and choose to walk fully into my purpose. I just want to help others the way He helped me. So stay connected and be encouraged!

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RAISED,

RESTORED,

RELEASED

Rachel Sampy

Raised, Restored, Released

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Copyright © 2022 by Rachel Sampy

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DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to my beautiful Mother, whose passing pushed me into my purpose and birthed this book.

LOVE YOU FOREVER, MY LADY.

LIFE INTERRUPTED

I grew up in Louisiana with both of my parents, who were a pastor and praise and worship leader, respectively. I was brought up in the church and from the time I was born, my family and I were a part of Faith Cathedral World Outreach Center with Bishop Drew and Pastor Wanda Rousse. I am blessed to have been brought up with a church family and to have a home-grown church for over twenty years of my life. I am the fourth of five children and the youngest daughter. We went to church very often—several times a week, actually. I feel very blessed and fortunate that I was taught and raised in the things of God from birth.

My parents made it clear that we needed to read and know the word of God from an early age, and they instilled that in us, especially my mama. She loved reading it and often quoted it. To be honest, I only knew a lot of the scriptures because she would quote them often and not because I read them myself, but life had a way of changing that.

I am blessed to have known both my parents and to have a good relationship with both of them. They were very involved in our lives and invested in us one of the most important things, which was time. I remember my daddy taking us to ride bikes throughout the city while Mama stayed back and prepared a home-cooked meal for us. We actually sat at the dinner table every night as a family and talked about our day. Fridays were really fun because we’d go to Blockbuster and rent movies and get a pizza. That has always been considered movie night, and still to this day every Friday I feel like I