Follow Where God Leads
Loriana Sekarski
Loriana Sekarski is the founder and president of BONSAI, a consulting company that transforms leaders (and businesses) into the best version of themselves. Outside of BONSAI, Loriana serves as an adjunct professor at Washington University's graduate student program. Additionally, she's fine-tuning her passion project, TakeFlight, a program that addresses domestic abuse within the Christian community.
Feeling obedient and satisfied, we each went to bed that night content. Unbeknownst to either of us, this was just the beginning of God’s calling on my Dad for his tract writing! Dad woke up the next day and felt again the irresistible urge to write. In a short time, he crafted another gospel sharing tract. The next day there was another, and the next, another. This continued until he had written 42 different tracts!
They were a work of love and devotion and dedication, and when he was finished, Dad didn’t know what he was supposed to do with them. He just knew he needed to write them. We encouraged Dad that perhaps in this season of life when he felt weak and worthless, God was using him in the most powerful way yet. So, Dad sat with his printed tracts and waited.
When Dad passed in 2018, there was a homebuilt tract rack in his living room, filled with his thoughts and convictions. We produced more copies and set them out at his funeral.
One of Mom’s beloved caregivers attended. She had shared with Dad about her adult son who had made some poor choices and was serving time in prison. Dad had added both mother and son to his daily prayer list, and the two of them had prayed for her son’s heart to be changed. At Dad’s funeral, she picked up copies of some of Dad’s tracts and sent them to her son in prison. Shortly after that, she asked for a full set of his tracts.
With Dad’s tracts in her son’s hand, the Holy Spirit gripped his heart, and Jesus saved him from the power of sin and death, and ushered him into life. He was a changed young man, and he began to share his faith in the only way he knew how, by giving those lifesaving tracts to the other inmates.
In his weakest time, my Dad was faithful to minister to this woman, pray for her son, and write life-saving messages. Our God is faithful and He works in ways we can’t imagine or orchestrate on our own, to accomplish His purposes. I’m thankful that my Dad was obedient and that our faithful heavenly Father used this offering. To God ALONE be the glory.
One night, suddenly awoken, he felt compelled to grab a notepad and write down words that seemed to just pour from him. They expressed his deep desire that people would recognize Jesus as Lord and Savior, that they would turn from the distractions and emptiness that the world offers, and recognize the truths of scripture.
Feeling obedient and satisfied, we each went to bed that night content. Unbeknownst to either of us, this was just the beginning of God’s calling on my Dad for his tract writing! Dad woke up the next day and felt again the irresistible urge to write. In a short time, he crafted another gospel sharing tract. The next day there was another, and the next, another. This continued until he had written 42 different tracts!
They were a work of love and devotion and dedication, and when he was finished, Dad didn’t know what he was supposed to do with them. He just knew he needed to write them. We encouraged Dad that perhaps in this season of life when he felt weak and worthless, God was using him in the most powerful way yet. So, Dad sat with his printed tracts and waited.
When Dad passed in 2018, there was a homebuilt tract rack in his living room, filled with his thoughts and convictions. We produced more copies and set them out at his funeral.
One of Mom’s beloved caregivers attended. She had shared with Dad about her adult son who had made some poor choices and was serving time in prison. Dad had added both mother and son to his daily prayer list, and the two of them had prayed for her son’s heart to be changed. At Dad’s funeral, she picked up copies of some of Dad’s tracts and sent them to her son in prison. Shortly after that, she asked for a full set of his tracts.
With Dad’s tracts in her son’s hand, the Holy Spirit gripped his heart, and Jesus saved him from the power of sin and death, and ushered him into life. He was a changed young man, and he began to share his faith in the only way he knew how, by giving those lifesaving tracts to the other inmates.
In his weakest time, my Dad was faithful to minister to this woman, pray for her son, and write life-saving messages. Our God is faithful and He works in ways we can’t imagine or orchestrate on our own, to accomplish His purposes. I’m thankful that my Dad was obedient and that our faithful heavenly Father used this offering. To God ALONE be the glory.
