She Let God Write Her Story

By Yelena Borichevska

The story of a young girl who moved from Ukraine to the United States shortly after 9/11. The story of how a girl's desire to please God and choose his will for her life put her through trials and challenges of life.

Yelena was born and raised in Rivne, Ukraine, and moved to America's Vancouver when she was almost seventeen. Yelena has always considered herself blessed beyond limits because of being raised by her God-loving and God-fearing parents. She considers her parents, siblings, friends, and every individual that touched her life as the greatest gifts from the most generous God. She has always been passionate about doing everything for God's glory and choosing his will for her life. Lena strongly believes that believing in God's perfect salvation plan through Jesus and having a personal close relationship with God can get anyone through any challenges and trials in life. Plus the believing offers the greatest hope for an amazing eternity. She also believes that trials are an integral part of anyone's life allowed by God for us to grow and exercise trust and dependence on him as he desires to be our greatest resource, helper, and advocate, which he achieves through the Holy Spirit. If we let him.

Yelena has been married to her husband, Vitaliy, since 2008. She loves being a mom to her daughter Ashley. She has two brothers, five sisters, thirteen nephews, and six nieces.

For over a decade, Yelena worked in the local health care, where she poured her love and skills into patients and coworkers. She runs a successful real estate business, which rewards her with happy clients and finances she can generously share with those in need (as she always dreamed) and is working on reaching other dreams and goals that God has carved in her heart.

Yelena loves spending time with her family, travelling, being in nature, rollerblading, reading, and impacting others in a positive way. Even if it is just giving them her smile.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685175245

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She Let God Write Her Story

Yelena Borichevska

Copyright © 2022 by Yelena Borichevska

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Acknowledgments

To God, my heavenly Father, to my number one, to the one who loves me like no one ever will. The One who sets high bar for me, who trains me to be the best version of myself. The one who never gives up on me. The one I have complete trust in. The one who teaches me to love others. The one I can model without any hesitation or worry of being disappointed. The one who called me His daughter and friend. The one who gave His one and only son so I could be saved. My life planner, my coach, my advisor, my comforter, my all in one! The one who blessed me with effortless as well as the most challenging relationships. The one who trusts in me and my abilities but also loves to show up His mightiness when I am at my weakest. The one who watches over me, stands up for me, and completes me! The one who is committed to keep working on me. The One my soul never wants to stop praising!

For I exist for Your glory! All Glory to You Forever!

P.S, I will never stop admiring You!

Love,

One of Your Daughters

*****

To Vitaliy, my husband,

When God brought you into my life, He thought I was a lot stronger than I thought so of myself. Or it might have been the journey that had me stick to God like I have never done before, like my life depended on it. And it did and always will. And for that, I will forever be thankful!

Through you, God has challenged me in the ways I could have never dared to let cross my mind, not in my wildest dreams. I am so blessed to say that I always knew I was going through the challenges for a reason, and that would be the surrendering my life to God. Will I ever regret that? Never in a million years. Although I am not ready to share the challenges God has put us through, at least not yet, I know He will use it for His glory one day. Just like He did and will continue to with the part of our lives before we met. I will never stop believing that whatever happens to those who are called God’s, everything and anything happens for good. To be more specific, for the best.

Because of God’s greatest gift of understanding that in His eyes we are both treasured, it was always easy for me to believe in you, to know that God had great plans for you. Having experienced God’s patience and kindness myself, His faithfulness, patience, and amazing grace, it was easy for me to believe that He had the same for you. I have to say it was a lot easier than watching you not trusting God in the way I know He can be trusted. Let’s keep believing and trusting God with all we do. And I will sure continue to trust that God has you in the palm of His hand!

I will always admire the work God has been doing through our lives and am excited to follow His lead for our family. Please stick to Him.

Love you, but not more than I love God, and thanks for being okay with that!

Love,

Your Lena

*****

To my favorite girl in the whole world, to Ashley, my daughter,

You are my biggest testimony that trusting God pays off in the ways we can never achieve on our own. When God gave me you, He checked off a lot more boxes of a desire list I could have ever come up with, if I did. I will always keep telling you how much I love being your mommy and how much He has blessed me because of you. I have no doubt you will continue to hear from me about how blessed you are to have me for your mommy. We will always be friends forever!

I will never regret all our time together. I will never get tired of watching you grow. I admire your love for Jesus. Your passion for people to know and experience God. You are one of the smartest girls I have ever met. I will continue to admire the fruits of the spirit God is producing in your precious life.

I love trusting God with you. It always surprises me in beautiful and unexpected ways! And I love it. You are my inspiration, my friend, my daily challenge, my unique gift from above. I will always thank God for you!

The next book I want to write would be because of you. Mom, why did you and Dad pick me a school where they never talk about God?

Thanks for asking that! Even though you ask the hardest questions, I will do my best to explain. I will try to put it in my next book that we could share with others. Sorry for thinking you should be as tough as I had to be. Even though I always dreamed to go to a school where they would talk about God, my mom and dad did not have that opportunity. I am super excited about the privilege for you to start second grade in The Corner Stone School. I cannot wait to see how you will bloom in the godly atmosphere.

Your best mommy ever,

Yelena

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To my dad,

Dad, you are not physically with us now when I write this dedication, but you will always be with me in a special way. Every holiday, every family celebration, every morning I walk by the church in my neighborhood where we had your memorial service; every December second. I always loved having your birthday two days before mine. My birthday will never be the same. A day after my husband’s birthday, the day God chose to be your last earthly day, every day is now somewhat different.

You are always with me. When I show houses for my clients or help them sell, I admire DIY built-ins and other projects; when we talk about making or assembling furniture; when there is any dad conversation, I am always there to brag about my dad! If I would have to say what are the biggest blessings in my life, you will certainly be on top of my list. You are and always will be my biggest treasure, even if you are not with us on this earth. I have to say that since you left us, heaven has become even closer. I feel like I have a special connection to God. Just a thought that you and God are together empowers me in a powerful way.

Because of you, it is so easy for me to understand God. Because you two are so alike.

I tell my Ashley girl that when we get to heaven, you will be the richest man there. You were so good about collecting your treasures in heaven. Always so wise!

I am so glad God gave me time to still share my achievements with you, my dreams. I am so glad I could still tell you about my book being published. I am beyond sad that you will not be able to read it with me when it is officially published, but I am super-grateful that you are one of the main reasons I became an author. I know you would have been my number one fan.

You always had a way to see through me, understand me, even without words. You noticed things I thought no one else did. You are the one who always noticed my talents, my dreams, my potentials, my happiness, or my pain and desires to please God.

I will always admire your ability not to take God’s place in my life, your wholeness in God. I will always admire you as the best dad for the rest of my life.

Your youngest daughter,

Olenka

*****

To my mom,

If I had to put a list of things I have learned from my mom, I would never stop writing. First, I would say you are one of the reasons I write.

From you, I have learned the power of storytelling. Sharing how you and/or dad learned your life lessons was priceless! It helped me so much! When it comes to telling others about Jesus, I cannot recall anyone bolder than you. The Love is sacrifice lesson, of course, I learned from you. Staying faithful to my marriage, I give you more credit than anyone will ever understand. Being strong and courageous, lessons that took me forever to learn, and I am not even done with it yet. You are my brightest role model in that area as well. Not letting down the high standards, I am wishing myself luck, ever catching up with you on that.

When Ashley says I am the best mommy in the world, I say it is because I learned from the best mommy in the world. From mommy who was always open for my opinion, who was so real about the reality of our weaknesses and failures but was never okay with us staying that way. The woman of faith and a fun, the forever young lady to spend time with.

I love you and adore you more than you will ever know! I am lucky to be your youngest daughter, and I will forever be proud of that!

Your Lenochka

*****

To my brothers,

If one ever thinks having five living sisters is more than enough, God knew I needed brothers as well.

My blood brothers, you two are so different but at the same time are the most kindhearted guys I have ever met. Because of your imperfections, I always felt like I could understand any other guy on the planet. With a house full of girls, I always admired how Mom and Dad took pride in you two. And when I saw a guy who was not treated so well by his parents, I felt sorry for him.

Ivan, no matter what others think or say, I will always be proud of how you made the choice to return to Ukraine to be with your wife and sons when they needed you the most without waiting for the green card. I admit that over the years, I wished you would have not done that so that you could still come visit us here or eventually move permanently. As you have heard numerous times and probably wondered yourself whether you made the right choice, I want you to know that I will always admire you for doing that. If every husband loved his family as much as you love yours, this world would have been a hugely different place.

It was heartbreaking not to be able to have you over to spend last days with Dad before he went to be with Jesus, even after so many efforts we put in. I have to say I still hope that our hardworking American experts in that area will hear out your case and will let you come visit us here one day.

Your little sister, Lena

*****

Pavel,

You are quite a bit younger than me, but most days, I feel like I am your little sister. I admire your intelligence, your knowledge, especially when it comes to history, your ability to comfort with your steadfast calmness. Your sincerity and openness about your weaknesses will always impress me. I love how you do not agree with something that is wrong, even when everyone around thinks it is okay. When you give advice, it always sticks to me. And you somehow give it at the right time.

I will always appreciate your reminder to not take advice on a particular matter from someone who has not had that experience themselves. I thought I always knew that, but your words took lots of burdens from my heavy heart right when I needed it, and I will always thank God for that. I am so thankful for that book you shared with me about royalty. I cannot wait to see how your life will be transformed when you start feeling royal again. I know God has a way!

Your big sister,

Lena

*****

To my brothers-in-law,

As you know, I had been given the privilege to become a sister-in-law at an incredibly young age. There is a lot I could say, but first thing I remember when it came time for my sweet sisters to get married, was that I was 100 percent confident that there will be no other family that would love each of you more than ours. I was about five years old, but I already knew that. Since then, I had been your cheerleader, at least most of the time. I really hope you feel the love!

*****

To my favorite ladies, to my blood sisters, and sister-in-law,

No doubt, I would have never become the person I am today without your contributions. God knew I would need special sisters in my life to make me into a masterpiece He has intended to make.

Growing up among each of you, I feel like there will never be an excuse for me not to strive to do my best in this life.

By the time I got into our family, I had the privilege to be raised by the most experienced mom because of each of you.

From your loyalty to your families and your desire to serve God with all you do, to all the excitement of shopping trips and the good old days chats on our family getaways or random visits to parents’ house, and everything in between, I consider myself blessed beyond limits to be a part of our sisterhood. When Ashley says she wants five sisters, I do not blame her. I wish every single girl in the world would have the sisterhood I have been blessed with.

Lyuba, thank you for being an integral part of our extended family. You had been our first sister-in-law and still are, so thank you for being patient with us as we had to learn how it is like to have one. Even if we do not say it enough, we love you and will always admire you in many ways. Keep up the strong walk and shine bright with multitude of your talents for God’s glory!

Since I remember myself, I wanted to be as smart as my sister, Alla, was in school. Alla, I will always admire your talents and fashion passion. If not the godless Soviet Union system, I have no doubt you would have made to be an ambitious doctor who could have helped so many or a fashion designer. I pray that you live an extremely healthy and long life so I would always have someone to call for a medical advice and for your opinion, as would be recommended by Mom. And I will always be a fan of the dress designs in your notebook.

I have to admit I tried drawing like you, but it never worked out so well. I will never get tired of admiring how talented you are. Your sacrificial love for your family affected me in the way you might never understand completely. I will always be proud of you, of your work ethics. I always knew I wanted to be as loyal as our dad and you were to your employers.

Natasha, your passion for God and His kingdom, your hard work, and always positive attitude are so contagious. Your passion for perfection in everything you do, not many could compete with you. I still remember you trying to teach me the importance of doing things with joy and pass on that priceless lesson you learned yourself after reading that book about a girl who did everything with joy. Your faithfulness in following God’s leads no matter what direction He invites you. Your generosity with encouragement, material things, and your hospitality is bringing more fruitfulness than you can even imagine.

Mary, sometimes, your trust in following God makes me think you are nuts, but I have no doubt God has you in control and will reward you beyond the limits we can comprehend. You are one of His pearls. I will always admire and be proud to have you for a sister. Your sincerity, kindness, and joyous spirit are always missed when you are not around. You are one of those ladies whose inner beauty is overshadowing the outer, although I always thought you were the cutest of all of us. Wish me luck with catching up!

Nina, even though we had been living far apart for the last twenty years, the effect you had on my character never left too far from me. Your brave spirit, your passion to please God before pleasing people, your talents in everything you do will always follow me. I still remember you trying to pass on your passion for seeking the wisdom of God to me. That moment was never forgotten by me. When I searched and continue to search the wisdom of God, your passion is always my standard, and I do not know if I will ever be more passionate about it than you were. I still hope that there will be a period