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Broken Crayons Still Color
by Shelley Hitz
This is the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast with your host, Shelley Hitz. Each episode contains an inspiring story of HOPE and HEALING in Christ.Many times what we see as our biggest regrets, failures and mistakes become what God uses the most in our lives.God is able to transform our brokenness into something more beautiful than we can even imagine. He takes our mess and creates a masterpiece.You see, broken crayons still color.God is the artist and our lives are His canvas. What will you allow Him to create from the broken pieces in your life?When you are in Christ, you are His masterpiece!
Episodes
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Episode 040: Live Well Choose Life with Anita Wilson
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Anita Wilson. Anita Wilson writes under the pen name Alias in Town which is an anagram of her name, Anita Wilson but purposely chosen because in every town there are alias people suffering…
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Episode 039: From Broken to Beauty with Lisa Dykes
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Lisa Dykes. Lisa has a powerful story of being freed from the shame of her past which included years of molestation as a young girl, severe drug addiction, and emotional heartache. She now…
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Episode 038: How Brokenness Leads to Bold Faith with Mo Isom
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Mo Isom. All-American soccer star Mo Isom shares her powerful testimony of meeting God in tragedy. Outwardly, her life seemed like a success, but she was battling an eating disorder, the…
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Episode 037: A Mother's Journey from Fear to Faith
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Mimika Cooney. Mimika has a heart for encouraging women to uncover their identity in Christ, pursue their purpose, and revolutionize their faith. She is an author, speaker, photographer, and...
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036: Sexual Abuse and Finding Answers in Gods Word with Dara Rose
Episode 036: Sexual Abuse and Finding Answers in God’s Word with Dara Rose Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Dara Rose. Dara is a wife and a mom that was raised as a preacher's kid. After enduring sexual abuse as a child she...
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035: Healing the Brokenhearted - There is Hope!
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz. In this episode, I share one of the teachings that I created for my Broken Crayons Still Color book. I share my own story and how I struggled with sexual sin, a pornography addiction for 2 years, as well as…
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Episode 034 - How a Massive Stroke Changed Horace Williams Life for the Better
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Horace Williams. On July 1st, 2010 Horace suffered a massive stroke in his office after eating his lunch. His entire left side was paralyzed and during the quiet moments of lying in the...
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033 - The Taboo Topic of Christian Women and Adultery with Christy Neal
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Christy Neal. When all was lost because of her own choices, when others looked down on her, Christy chose to look to God. Her story addresses the taboo topic of Christian women and adultery.…
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032 - Finding Contentment with Body Image with Sarah Bragg
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Sarah Bragg. Sarah has waged a battle that I know many of you can relate to, a battle with her body image. She battled an eating and exercise obsession for more than a decade before learning…
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031- How God Rescued Michele Davenport from Abuse Drugs and Hopelessness
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Michele Davenport. Michele was thrust into abuse from a very early age. She survived the first 22 years of her life by the grace of God. She was molested at eleven at an amusement park, raped…
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030- Patti Pendletons Abusive Relationships and Her Search for True Love
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Patti Pendleton. Patti knows what it’s like to end a long relationship. She was rejected, verbally abused, physically abused through intimation, and nothing she did was good enough. She…
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029- How God Sustained Wanda Carver Through Deep Grief
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Wanda Carver. Wanda lost her 41-yr-old brother from a massive heart attack. They were two years apart and extremely close. To make matters worse, their mother was dying of lung cancer and they...
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028 - What God Taught Retha Nichole When Her Husband Was in a Coma
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Retha Nichole. Retha was newly married and 5 months pregnant. Life seemed to be going well until her husband went into a coma. God really spoke to her and changed her life in the year and 9...
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027 - From DUI to Finding her True Identity in Christ with Ginny Priz
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Ginny Priz. Ginny was born with her right arm ending just below the elbow. She always trusted God with her physical body because her parents told her this is how God wanted to make her.…
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Episode 026- How Anita Patrick Found the Missing Piece in Her Life
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Anita Patrick. Anita’s story started out when she was sexually abused by a family member at the age of 4-5. She grew up with alcoholic parents and her mother died when she was 14. She found...
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Episode 025- Loving Your Children Through Dark Times with Brenda Love
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Brenda Love. Brenda has known rejection throughout her life. She has never had anyone stand beside her and fight for her no matter what the cause. In 2007, Brenda and her 4 adopted children...
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Episode 024 - From Crisis to Hope Dawn Perry Shares About Her Sanctuary Season
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Dawn Perry. Dawn sits today viewing life from a new vantage point - after having experienced 10 out of 11 top life crises in the past 7 years - she sees with different eyes. During what she...
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023- The Pain of Losing Two Babies with Sarah Rieke
Today’s guest is Sarah Rieke. Sarah knows loss and grief. She has lost two babies shortly after giving birth due to a rare genetic anomaly. Her story is one of loss but also of great hope in Christ. Without Him she would truly have no hope. With Him, she can see the beauty in her pain and look...
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022- From Survivor to Overcomer with Annie Bell
Today’s guest is Annie Bell. Annie a survivor of a disease called polio and child sexual abuse who has learned how to turn her misery into ministry; not only to the community of survivors of abuse but those who live with disabilities (seen and unseen). Her purpose is to inject hope and to be an...
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021 - Kim Smith Shares About Teenage Pregnancy and Finding Her Identity in Christ
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Kim Smith. Kim knows what it’s like to experience the twists and turns of life. After getting pregnant at 16 and married at 17, Kim had to deal with bitterness towards two of the key men in…
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020: Jean Wise and Her Journey from Adult Orphan to Beloved Child of God
Today’s guest is Jeanie Wise. Jeanie’s dad died when she was 16 and her mom was gone by the age of 26. She has been an adult orphan most of her life. She is a firm believer in the practice of going on retreat - spending time with God. It was on one of her retreats where she faced her issues with...
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019 - Kim Hawkins Shares About Pain and Betrayal from Within the Church
Today’s guest is Kim Hawkins. There are certain things in life we will never understand this side of heaven. In today’s episode, Kim shares the pain and betrayal of being molested as a tween by a teenage boy from the church where her family worshiped. This is so difficult on so many levels and…
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018 - Abandonment to Forgiveness with Michelle Moore
Today’s guest is Michelle Moore. There are moments, memories, and situations that have left us with a feeling of deep abandonment. Most of us have experienced someone leaving us, whether through emotional or physical abandonment. Michelle was abandoned my both of her parents and struggled to make...
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017 - Gayle Larson Shares About Living a Double Life Through Alcohol
Today’s guest is Gayle Larson. Gayle grew up in an addicted home where she learned to not talk about her feelings and instead learned to simply pull up her bootstraps and carry on. At 12, she acquired a step-father, who was alcoholic and mentally and physically abusive, so she learned to crawl...
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016 - A Mother's Worst Nightmare with Debra Butterfield
Today’s guest is Debra Butterfield. Every parent’s worst nightmare is to hear that their children have been harmed in some way. Debra knows what this is like firsthand as those close to her sexually abused her daughter. In this episode, Debra will share her story of pain turned into hope and how...
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015 - Lonely in the Church Pew with Cheri Dotterer
Today’s guest is Cheri Dotterer. Cheri knows what it’s like to be lonely even while sitting in a church pew. Dealing with many issues including health problems, she has learned to replace fear with gratitude and embrace every chapter of her life. She will share her story in today’s episode.…
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014 - How Cyndi Silvas' Life Came Full Circle
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s guest is Cyndi Silvas. Sometimes our lives come full circle. At 16 years old, Cyndi gave us her son for adoption. As you can imagine, this was devastating to her. However, God brought redemption many...
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013 - Donna Robinson Shares About Her Resurrection Miracle
Today’s guest is Donna Robinson. Donna was standing on the edge of what looked like would be her husband’s last days on this earth. However, God had other plans. His plans were resurrection plans. Donna is going to share her story of heartache, financial loss, and yet the miracle they…
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012 - Betsy Clark Shares How to Hear God When You're in a Crisis
Today’s guest is Betsy Clark and she will share how to position yourself to hear God when you feel the rug has been pulled out from under you. Betsy Clark, Mindset Coach will share one of her lowest moments in life and how God showed up in a God-sized way. ====== Thank you for listening to the...
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011 - The Offspring of Fear is Hopelessness with Kelli Claypool
Today’s guest is Kelli Claypool. On March 19, 2015, Kelli’s husband took his last breath in her arms on the floor in their bedroom. He fought hard to overcome liver cancer but finally succumbed to the disease. In that moment, fear and panic fell upon her. She is going to share today about the...
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010 - How God Turned a Terrible Math Class into One of Tena DeGraaf's Biggest Life Lessons
Today’s guest is Tena DeGraaf. Do you remember struggling with a specific subject in school? Tena remembers crying almost every night of her 6th grade year as her parents tried to help her with her math homework. Little did she know that God would reconnect her with her math teacher 28 years…
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009 - Abuse Colored Beth Jones' World but Christ Set Her Free
Today’s guest is Beth Jones. Beth experienced abuse in childhood until she left home at age 17. The abuse "colored" everything in her life, resulting in many broken pieces. She was looking for love, authentic love, and finally found it in Jesus Christ. Now His love and forgiveness "colors" all…
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008 - Sharon Hurkens' Involvement in the Occult and How God Rescued Her
Today’s guest is Sharon Hurkens. As a teenager, even though Sharon grew up in a pastor's home, she got involved in the occult. She lived a double life for 3 years, but God intervened and rescued her. The journey towards healing was slow and difficult. But God has been faithful and she is going to...
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007 - Trista Laborn's Wake Up Call
Today’s guest is Trista Laborn. Sometimes we can’t even see our broken pieces. We think everything is okay until one day we wake up and our life is falling apart. In today’s episode, Trista is going to share how God woke her up to bring deeper healing in her life. ====== Thank you for listening…
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006 - What Happened When Kim Levings Lost All Hope
Today’s guest is Kim Levings. Have you ever been in a place in life where you lost all hope? More people than we realize struggle with depression and suicidal thoughts every day. Not only did Kim attempt suicide twice, but she found hope again. She will be sharing her story in today’s episode....
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005 - The Forgiveness Cross (Part Two)
Most of the turning points in my life started with the power of forgiveness. In this episode, I share part two of the Forgiveness Cross illustration. Walk with me as I share how I forgave my grandma’s murderer and also forgave myself and finally accepted God’s forgiveness for my sexual sin.…
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004 - The Forgiveness Cross Part One
A life-changing moment occurred for me when I learned about the Forgiveness Cross illustration during Christian counseling. In this episode, I share part one of this powerful illustration. ====== Thank you for listening to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast. We have a gift for you! Download...
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003 - How A Broken Tree Surprises Angela Morgan
Today’s guest is Angela Morgan. Sometimes God teaches us the most powerful lessons in the midst of day to day life when we least expect it. Angela is going to share an illustration today that God gave her in the midst of buying trees. ====== Thank you for listening to the Broken Crayons Still…
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002 - Tiffani Riveron's Journey to Freedom from Anxiety and Panic Attacks
Today’s guest is Tiffani Riveron. Depression, anxiety and panic attacks are realities many of us face, even when in Christian ministry. However, not many people are willing to pull back the curtain and reveal the real struggles they face. In today’s episode, Tiffani will share what was her...
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001 - Jennifer Bunderle Shares Freedom from an Eating Disorder
Today’s guest is Jennifer Bundle. In Jennifer’s life, she found a way to gain control when everything was out of control. However, for her, it led to an eating disorder. In today’s episode, Jennifer is going to share how she finally found freedom. ====== Thank you for listening to the Broken...
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000 - Broken Crayons Still Color Introduction
Welcome back to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast! I’m your host, Shelley Hitz and today’s episode is an introduction to this podcast and why I personally believe that broken crayons do still color. ====== Thank you for listening to the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast. We have a gift for...
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This is the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast with your host, Shelley Hitz. Each episode contains an inspiring story of HOPE and HEALING in Christ.Many times what we see as our biggest regrets, failures and mistakes become what God uses the most in our lives.God is able to transform our brokenness into something more beautiful than we can even imagine. He takes our mess and creates a masterpiece.You see, broken crayons still color.God is the artist and our lives are His canvas. What will you allow Him to create from the broken pieces in your life?When you are in Christ, you are His masterpiece!
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This is the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast with your host, Shelley Hitz. Each episode contains an inspiring story of HOPE and HEALING in Christ.Many times what we see as our biggest regrets, failures and mistakes become what God uses the most in our lives.God is able to transform our brokenness...
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