Raven Austen never planned to write a book like this. She planned to write novels. But life had other plans.

She grew up the forgotten middle child in a family that observed Old Testament laws. Her classmates called her a religious freak. Then her father died when she was fifteen. Everything fell apart.

For years, Raven chased acceptance in all the wrong places. She believed the lies of the sexual revolution. She made choices that nearly destroyed her. At nineteen, she had an abortion. At twenty-nine, she met Jesus in a pastor’s office and everything changed.

Raven spent three decades as a classroom teacher and competitive debate coach. She has been a coach’s wife for over forty years. She is a mother to two daughters, both married to pastors. She is a grandmother to eight. She has led women’s ministry for more than twenty-five years and volunteers at a pregnancy resource center, walking alongside women considering abortion or healing from one.

She writes the way she speaks. Direct. Honest. Sometimes funny. Often tearful. She does not hide her scars because she believes they help others find their own healing.

Raven lives in a small town in Oklahoma with her husband, Russell. She still hates mice. She still cries when she remembers her daddy. And she still writes WLBH on her calendar, but now it stands for something even deeper.

Jesus is all her reasons.