Lacking Nothing (The Year I Lost My Ability to Eat and Found Satisfaction in Christ)

There are so many ways we can experience lack in this life: loneliness, loss, underemployment, empty-nesting, literal hunger, and the void left by a bad habit we've overcome but not replaced. Each creates a hole in our souls that we may try everything to fill, but only one thing is needed.

Natasha Kennedy knows the reality of lack firsthand in a way most of us can't imagine. Through a debilitating chronic illness, Natasha lost her ability to eat. In her own words, "As I walk through life in a body that cannot swallow food, I will always experience the temptation to turn my head to the right or to the left--toward other pleasures or comforts that promise to fill my lack. But this emptiness is my allotted suffering; it is my appointed opportunity to see Jesus fill my emptiness. For him to be enough. In a world of excess and abundance, losing my ability to eat forced me to embrace lack and find provision and sustenance in the person of Christ alone."

Through her remarkable story of choosing to trust Jesus' promise that he indeed is enough, Natasha will encourage you, in the midst of your own experience of lack, pain, and suffering, to cling to Jesus and not let go until you receive your blessing.