Hello! My name is Daphnee Joan, and this is my story about how God turned everything around for His glory.

In 2017, I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. My life changed a bit since then, but not until 2022. In September of that year, I decided I wanted to give myself completely to God. During that time, I suffered a flare-up that took nearly three years of recovery and four surgeries. Since saying "yes" to God, my life changed drastically. I was diagnosed with OCD (intrusive thoughts and scrupulosity) later on while I was in the process of starting one of many procedures due to my health. On November 6, 2022, I began journaling with the topic of "God and Me." The time passed when God began to work in me and give prophetic words into my life, and one day I was suddenly bombarded with many intrusive thoughts. I didn't know at the time that it was a spiritual warfare that the devil was trying to destroy me, but God used that same thing for good and to build me on a solid foundation in Christ Jesus (Genesis 50:20). You may be wondering what that has to do with bookmarks and jewelry, well, it actually has to do with everything. At that moment when everything fell apart, I thought my life was over. I had many intrusive thoughts about God and the Holy Spirit, and I truly thought God had abandoned me. I was in a very dark place for months and years, but I remember many times that even though I had those thoughts and felt like I was dying inside and couldn't feel anything (I felt emotionally numb from the trauma that to this day I am still healing with the Lord), something inside me was telling me to never give up, to keep going. In the midst of the chaos I was in, God has been with me all this time since day one. I have learned a lot. Many of the things I've experienced in this process have lead me to unlearn many of the bad things I'd learned throughout my life. I can say that God had to break me to build something new and better. In that process, I began creating bookmarks, and one of my first clients was my psychologist, whom God placed in my life just in time to help me through the process. One day I was talking to God about this dream I have in my heart. I wanted to do it with Him and help others draw closer to Him through the things I create by hand as a reminder of the love of God. So, I wanted to create an Instagram page to share the gospel and faith with my creations, but I didn't know what to name it. While talking to God, I remember opening my journal, where it all began, and "God and me" was the first name I gave it, until later on I changed it to "Take Heart, Dear Child." Both names are very personal to me, but I also want to share them with the world. That may everything I do, in some way, bring you closer to Jesus and remind you of God's goodness, His love, and the wonderful fellowship and help of the Holy Spirit. And that's how it all began, in the midst of the storm and in the desert. I thank God for not giving up on me and to always help me by His Spirit to remain in Him. And even though I'm still in this process I remember this is a life journey an ongoing process of transformation with Jesus through His Spirit. It's a new way of living and sharing that same goodness of God to others.

I want to thanks first of all God, my family, friends, doctors and nurses that have been in my process that without any of them I wouldn't be here today.