ABOUT KATRINA SHARLENE

Writing was never part of my plan. It slowly became the language through which I began to understand what God had been doing in my life all along.

My name is Ka’Trina Sharlene, and I write about faith, spiritual growth, and learning to live wisely with God. Writing was never something I originally set out to do. It slowly became a calling that grew out of my own journey with God and the ways He met me in seasons when I was not sure how to move forward.

I came to faith in 2008 while I was in college. At the time I was depressed and slowly failing out of school. It wasn’t because I didn’t understand the material. I simply didn’t feel like I was worth the effort it took to keep showing up anymore. During that season there was a woman on campus who began praying for me before I ever asked her to. She spoke to me about Jesus with a consistency I couldn’t explain and honestly didn’t feel like I deserved. I wasn’t ready for faith yet, but I noticed something about her and the Christians around her that I couldn’t ignore. They had real problems and real pressures just like everyone else, yet there was a steadiness underneath their lives that didn’t seem to move. I didn’t have a name for it at the time, but I knew that I wanted it.

The moment that changed everything came on New Year’s Eve. My cousin had been in a terrible accident, and doctors told our family she likely wouldn’t make it through the night. I remember standing in that hospital room watching people pray over her. It wasn’t formal or rehearsed. It was the kind of prayer that comes from people who truly believe someone is listening. That night I made a quiet prayer of my own. If God was real, I asked Him to let her live.

She lived.

Then the doctors said she would be a vegetable, but two days later she was talking. They said she would be paralyzed from the neck down, yet she began moving her feet. They told us it would take months of therapy before she would ever walk again, but she walked out of that hospital in less than thirty days.

When I returned to school after winter break, I carried something I still didn’t have words for. I reached out to the woman who had been praying for me, and she pointed me to a church just up the street from campus. At first I didn’t like it very much, but one Sunday communion came around and I let the elements pass because I hadn’t yet accepted Christ. In that moment something inside me broke open. I realized I had been waiting. Waiting to get my life together before coming to God. Waiting to be good enough. Waiting until I felt ready. As if grace required qualification, or as if the door only opened from my side.

That Sunday I finally understood what I had been leaving on the table. God had never been waiting for me to become worthy. He had already made a way.

My Story

The Writing

I didn’t know I was a writer until my community affirmed it. I was serving on the prayer team at my church and helping write devotionals for twenty one days of fasting and prayer. The response from my team and my pastor surprised me. They recognized something in the writing that I hadn’t yet named in myself. God used that season to build a confidence I hadn’t manufactured on my own, and out of that season came my first book, Pure Intimacy. I wrote it about a subject the church too often approaches with silence or shame because I believe women deserve something better than behavior management. They deserve to know the God who actually loves them.

Since then, writing has become one of the ways I process my faith and share what I’m learning about God’s character. My hope is always the same: that through honest words and thoughtful reflection, readers will come to trust Him more deeply and see His kindness more clearly in their own lives.

If You Found Your Way Here

If you found your way here, I suspect we already share something in common. You’re not looking for inspiration that fades. You’re looking for something that holds. You may have questions you’re not always sure you’re allowed to ask, and you may be trying to trust God through a season that sometimes makes that difficult. Even when faith feels uncertain, you still care deeply about walking with Him.

If that sounds like you, you’re in the right place. Not because I have everything figured out, but because I’m walking this road too. I’m married to an incredible man, thirteen years and counting, and I’m deeply committed to the local church. Every year I grow more convinced that understanding who God truly is changes everything about the way we live.

He loves you, lady. Not the polished version of you that has everything together, but you exactly where you are in this moment. You don’t have to carry anxiety, insecurity, or the weight of a future you were never meant to manage alone. God is steady, He is kind, and He hasn’t missed a single detail of your life.

That’s what I write about, and I hope these words meet you right where you are.

Letters from Ka’Trina

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