Kathleen Johnson

A Word from Earnie

I didn’t come to this book from a hospital bed… but after reading parts of it, I wish I had.

When my heart dropped to a 20% ejection fracture, when circulation failed and I lost both of my lower legs, when diabetes took its pound of flesh, I walked through all of that without a guide. I went from managing large fleets and keeping trucks and teams moving, to figuring out how to move my own life again from a wheelchair. I survived it, but I survived it blind.

Only later, after rebuilding my work and shifting from fleet management into publishing, did I pick up Healed to Heal . And when I opened the book and read some of it, it hit me hard: this is the kind of book I needed back then. The kind of truth that could’ve steadied me when everything fell apart. The kind of stories that might’ve helped me breathe on nights I wasn’t sure I’d see morning.

Reading Healed to Heal now feels like finding a lantern long after you’ve already walked through the dark. You don’t resent not having it sooner but you understand exactly how much it matters. This book doesn’t pretend the pain isn’t real. It doesn’t offer cheap shortcuts. It shows you how God can take what broke you and turn it into something that lifts someone else up.

If you’re carrying something heavy, trying to rebuild after everything came apart, or wondering what your story is even good for now, I’m telling you as straight as I can: read this book. Let it remind you that your healing isn’t just for you, it’s for the next person who needs your strength.

I had to learn that the hard way. You don’t have to.

~ Earnie ~
Black Anvil Books
Forged in Steel, Strong at Heart