The miraculous rebirth of Jodie's Story - another type of God whisper

 

I’ve used my friend’s ‘street name’. ‘Jodie’ is not her real name.

 

I dialled the number slowly.

Could I really ask this of Jodie? Her story in the biographical novel, Jodie’s Story, now published twice in different editions, had already sold many thousands of copies. Jodie was now happily married with adult children. Would she want to revisit that dark part of her youth? – the part that had, ironically, helped and inspired so many young people. Could I ask it of her?

‘Hello, Jodie speaking.’

‘Jodie, it’s Jeanette.’ We chatted, then I took a deep breath. ‘You’ll never guess. Another publisher wants to publish your story again. That’ll be three editions. You can say ‘no’ if you want to. Or …’

Jodie was silent for a minute, then, ‘Let me think about it. I’ll get back to you.’


                              Photo Pixabay

 

A few days later, while I was thinking, Two editions is probably all. She won’t want to get that type of limelight again, the phone rang. Jodie.

‘Guess what!’ she said. ‘I was out walking, thinking about the book. I bumped into a lady and we got talking. She was a Christian too. Turned out she’d been in the same sort of scenes as I had. Drugs, prostitution etc. I was surprised and asked her how she’d managed to get out of it all, remembering my own rugged journey. And she said, “I read a book called Jodie’s Story!”

‘You can imagine how I felt. So, Jeanette, go ahead and get it published again. Who am I to stand in the way of God?’

So the edition pictured here is the third edition and that’s how it came to be published.

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Comments

  1. Debra Williams4 February 2025 at 16:26

    It's always amazing how the Lord uses the broken people to connect and minister to others, and how He amazingly puts us across the paths of those we had no idea that we had touched somewhere along the way. Blessings to you, Jeanette, and to Jodie, on being brave enough to publish her story. As the old saying goes, little things from big things grow.

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  2. Jeanette Grant-Thomson4 February 2025 at 16:49

    Thanks for commenting, Debra. You must have a few tech secrets a lot of us don't have. I've been longing for comments! and yes, God weaves His people together in wonderful ways. I found this exciting.

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  3. Helen Brown4 February 2025 at 20:19

    It's always great to see how God works over and over again

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  4. Jeanette Grant-Thomson4 February 2025 at 22:29

    Yes, it's exciting, isn't it. Thanks for commenting, Helen.

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  5. Anusha Atukorala5 February 2025 at 04:28

    Wow! I love the story! That was such a God event! Isn't it wonderful how He does that? Well done dear Nettie for writing her story and for your faithfulness in doing what God asked of you. It encourages me no end when I hear these kind of events. Thanking God with you dear Nettie!

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  6. Jeanette Grant-Thomson5 February 2025 at 15:31

    Thanks so much for commenting, Anu. Yes, it's very encouraging when God does things like that - or orchestrates them, I guess.

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