Meet My Friend, Micca Campbell, Author of An Untroubled Heart

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Hi friends,

My dear friend and Proverbs 31 sister, Micca Campbell, has written an amazing book, entitled An Untroubled Heart, that I want to share with you. Micca shines, truly shines, the love of Jesus. I remember meeting her for the first time a few years ago at She Speaks. We sat down and chatted for a while, and I remember never wanting it to end. Micca can make me laugh and cry all in the same few minutes. She is wise beyond her years and inspires me every time I hear her speak.

I have so much I want to tell you about Micca and her book, but she can say it much better. I asked her to share her heart about the book, so please read on……

Wendy, I wrote An Untroubled Heart because I have faced and survived every woman’s greatest fear…the death of her spouse. Through this experience, I became frightened of everything…the unknown future, the fear of being alone, and, I quickly became a fear-driven parent. I learned that our present day fears are fueled by our past experiences. While this is true, God doesn’t want us to go through the rest of our lives justifying our fears. Nor does He want us to live behind some protective wall that shields us from what might happen. God wants to teach us that it’s safe to trust Him. He alone is our peace. Even if we don’t have all the answers our past will never make sense until we invite God into our present. Then we will see He has been there all along. Such was the case with me…

I was living the fairy-tale dream. At nineteen, I was married. By the time I was twenty-one, God blessed my husband and I with a beautiful baby boy. Life was going like I had always planned for it to go—until the night tragedy struck.

Earlier one morning, Porter, my husband, had gone to my brother-in-law’s house to help him waterproof his basement. The day before, my brother-in-law had dug a seven-foot ditch around the foundation of the house with a backhoe so that Porter could apply the waterproofing substance to the outside wall. Realizing the substance was highly flammable, Porter felt confident that working outdoors would allow the fumes to escape preventing any danger. Unfortunately, as they worked the fumes mounted in the ditch. With only five feet left to finish, the outside heating and air conditioning unit clicked on igniting the fumes and the ditch exploded. The blast of fire left Porter and our brother-in-law badly burned over the majority of their bodies.

To prevent blood poisoning, the doctor preformed a procedure called skin grafting. The wait was long—longer than we were told the procedure would take. Later, the doctor, still in his surgical clothes, walked slowly into the waiting room with his head hung low and his shoulders slouched. No one spoke a word. He slowly bent down in front of my chair and began confirming my worst fears. “In the middle of surgery Porter went into cardiac arrest,” he explained as gently as he could. “His burned body was unable to withstand the trauma of surgery and it shut down.”
When the funeral was over and the people were gone, I found myself alone, a new mother, and a widow at the age of twenty-one. How would I get through this crisis? My dream had become a living nightmare from which I couldn’t escape. I felt deserted by my God and afraid of what my future held. I continually questioned. “Why would God betray me? Why didn’t Porter fight to live?” It wasn’t fair! This was not what I had planned.

My first step toward fearless living and learning to trust God again came when I chose to believe that I am never ever alone. God is always near me. Looking back, I realize the strength I felt in the midst of my suffering was God’s presence carrying me through the valley of death safely to the other side. Time and again when I felt lost and alone, God met me in my pain and carried me to new levels of grace. With each encounter, my future grew brighter and I was able to pick up the pieces of my shattered dream, and with God’s help, rebuilt my life.

Longing for others to know freedom from fear, I began to write. In a world today that give us cause to fear because of moral decline, terrorism, nuclear bombs, and the rise of natural disasters, most of us have wondered—“what’s the worst that could happen?” I address these questions in my book. The truth is there’s nothing new under the sun. They may come at us in a new way, but these things that cause anxiety are not out of the capable and trustworthy hands of our God.

In my book, I also discuss the fear of loneliness, rejection, abandonment, the fear of the unknown, and the pressures today on marriages, finances, and family. Plus, I write about the dangers of becoming a fear-driven parent. Sometimes, our fears drive our children down the road we are trying to avoid. I give a simple formula in my book on how we can determine if our fears are legitimate or not.

The main thread that runs through An Untroubled Heart is that we were created to live by faith not fear. Fear was introduced to us in the garden in a form of a lie. That lie says we can be our own god. However, when you and I attempt to live life apart from God’s presence and provision, the result is fear. You and I are simply not enough. I didn’t have to tell you that, did I?
Every since we left the garden, God has been calling us back to live as He created us to live—as carefree children living in the care of our heavenly Father. It’s God’s desire, along with mine, that our lives be marked by faith, joy, peace, and freedom. I believe my book, that has a study guide at the end of each chapter, will lead you to a life of faith where fearless living is a reality.

God, indeed, is faithful. Today, I’m remarried. I have two more beautiful children, a ministry that allows me to touch thousands, and a heart that believes my God is good in all things.

Thank you, Micca, for sharing your heart with us today. Micca’s book, An Untroubled Heart, will leave you changed forever. To learn more about Micca and her book, please visit Micca’s blog at http://www.miccacampbell.com/. You can buy An Untroubled Heart at http://www.proverbs31.org/.

We are going to give a copy of Micca’s book away. So please leave a comment to be entered to win a copy of An Untroubled Heart.