Sifted Like Wheat in Silo Country: A Journey Like None Other

By Dawn Baxley

I was carried all this way like a river running through my failures, though at times, I felt abandoned. Leaving my soul, minute by minute, against a starless night and supernatural fight required someone much, much greater to be in control.

Do you ever wonder if you're prepared for the days ahead? This true story

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Nov 24, 2023
• ISBN: 9798890413376

Dawn Baxley

Dawn continues her pursuit as an author and end-time messenger, which is intensified through her connection with the School of Messengers and The Center of Biblical End-Time Studies. She maintains her calling as a global intercessory missionary making a significant difference for those marked for God's purposes. She currently lives in Waco, Texas- Silo Country-where she acts as an assistant for her mom and her three support puppies following the passing of her dad. Dawn lives solo, but never alone, sharing life with the company of her six felines.For contact / [e-mail].

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Table of Contents

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Coming Back Slowly

Rough and Ronnie

Danger of Dying

Rehab Revival

The Glory and Depth of John 17

Heading Home to Recover

The Drug Dog Officer

Supernatural Sides

You Will Be Vindicated

The Human Spirit

The Long Journey Begins

Botched Court Date

Joy in the Morning

The Mystery of Suffering

The Unreal Deal

The Sentence

The Depth of God’s Care

The Sixth Floor

God is Your Deliverer, Your Salvation

Not Home Yet

A Godless Place

The Shelter of the Most High

The Angel of Light

Whole-Hearted Devotion

Through it All

Hobby Hell! … They Called It

Hobby’s Comrades

The Hard Road Home

The Texas Coast

The Beauty Narrative of David /Psalms 27

Galveston

The Final Push to Freedom

Is This the Brand of Triumphant Joy, Lord?

The God of Beauty

The Triumph of Beauty

A Call to Overcome Until the End

Gatesville

Afterward

Biography

Dedication

To my beautiful parents Barbara and Douthit (Bax), I wouldn’t have emerged from the other side of this tale, this grueling test, without you! How can I ever repay all your sacrifice for, and faithfulness to, your Dawny beginning at the young age of eighteen. There are no words, or no way, I can ever give you the honor you deserve. Your strong love and care have astounded and stunned me over and over again. Offering a depth of love that has carried me (us) through extravagant hardship in this life. Your strong, boundless, and undaunted support for me during the ten years of this shaking has been nothing less than extraordinary. I love you greatly and look ahead to the divine joy and well-being we will one day share, forever together, on a New Earth coming.

Preface

Since I returned home in May of 2015 from this remarkably hard, and supernaturally guided adventure I’ve had a deep desire to put it all together for readers everywhere. Some of the most effective work in life often takes great and effective time and great and effective seasons of preparation with a lot of waiting. Many people I encountered and talked with after I returned home didn’t understand, why the wait? But I knew I needed to be worked on from the inside-out to be able to relive this story. And I was so right.

I dug down deep inside my heart for everything that could be a stumbling block to the real, genuine, and lasting purpose of this project to be unveiled, then discarded. This took some time. Anyone who has been run through the mill in an unjust manner will likely have to grapple with how the soul was affected and harmed by it all in the moment. We are made to see justice and experience restitution in this life. But as we wait and listen, we find a better way to get there. A redemptive way. Allowing any legitimate legal or civil right fight for justice to be marked for another time. That ‘other time’ will be significant when all things wrong will be made right when Jesus returns to this earth as King and Judge!

I knew in my head that the only way ‘vindication’ would ever come my way while still here on earth would be through ‘Letting it Go’… ‘Letting it Be’… And letting ‘God Take Over.’ Getting my heart to line up with my head was a challenge. Stepping back for the time I needed was freeing. Now could I throw out all of the distractions and hindrances, like, I really should sue the place for ruining my health! mindset and focus on fulfilling the purposes of the things I’ve learned and experiences I’ve had that were intended for me and others through this shaking! I’m now as ready as I’ll ever be to go forward and finish this long-awaited project, and tell this story about this unexpected, deeply challenging, divine journey…

Acknowledgements

I couldn’t have made this project become a reality without so many amazing people that need and deserve mentioning in this book:

Mom and Dad, so thankful for you… thank you, thank you…(words fail me again)… for your relentless and fearless support when there was darkness all around me. Thank you! For the hardest trip you two have ever made involving me; venturing out to East Texas, after all your hard work, and endless phone calls that finally found me there when I was missing. Your beautiful cards of all kinds…your phone calls, generous giving that kept me going, your sweet comfort, kindness and continued belief in me, your first-born child. For all your amazing trips to some very difficult places to see and hug your girl, though at times I tried so hard to keep you away and protect you. — Dad, I wish so much you were here to experience this book reaching its finale in print and could read this long awaited story —!

Jenny Sweezy, thank you so, for the bold, remarkable, and difficult letter that included the critical message you sent me confirming I was indeed being Sifted Like Wheat!

Cole, thank you, my friend … for all of our long talks that stirred the embers and future of this long-awaited manuscript, and for all your creative writing tips, and sweet effective prayers, resulting in this book.

Elaine, the one and only Ms-Elaine-neous! My precious little friend. The gift of a lifetime. I miss you so …You, my forever friend, are all over this book.

Julie, my endearing forever friend, I love you so much! So thankful for you, then (the 80’s on) and now, for your prayers, insights, love, and support over this project and going forward.

Wayne, thank you, for being so kind, allowing me to lay low under your leadership during that very hard and enduring season, and your faithful support and significant letter to the board.

Dr. Rodney Wynn Brown my friend, my divinely appointed cardiologist …. Thank you, thank you, for saving my life with your amazing giftings and arranging immediate emergency triple bi-pass heart surgery for me. I’m forever grateful from the bottom of my heart.

Thank you, Dr. Young, for performing that emergency surgery. So thankful for you. What a supernatural gift you two were for me! This project was finished because our God gave me you.

My crew, my family, thank you for your love, forgiveness, and grace: Melissa, Brent, Holly, Arron, Amy, Arron Jr (AJ), Anthony and Arianna.

To all my Divine Appointments throughout those unsettling years, thank you: To two of the most amazing doctors at the East Texas Hospital who were willing to make strategic decisions on my behalf that literally saved my life.

Great thanks, great love and blessings: Eliza (Eli), Veronica Luna, Kim, Tonya, Alisha, Tania, Kelly, and Dena….!! And sweet friend and bunkie, Julie Howard! For all your support and care through some really tough times.

Thank you, Beverly. My sweet and giving friend. For your time, and expertise over the visuals on this project — including the help from Tommy, and Charlie — at AMA Graphics in Waco, Texas — work on my photographs for the book covers, and myself, for this project.

And, as always, a special thanks to Helen, who has been waiting quite a while for the completion of this book. Thankful, for your love, prayers for this book, and for me, encouraging enthusiasm, and all the laughter through so much of my life.

- Sifted Like Wheat in Silo Country -

Introduction

I’ve heard it said, If you want to see the rainbow. You must weather the storm. Sifted is ultimately God’s Story. A small part of His Big Story…for my life. A raw and honest one. One so raw it’s taken six and a half years to release it. During those far-reaching and tremendously stretching days of that season in my life God had to be big enough for me. Or I would not be here.

For the most part I have always been known as a strong overcomer. So, why was Sifting in the mix? Obviously, I was being further qualified, purified, further refined, and admonished for the readiness