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On today’s episode of Fierce Calling, I’m talking with Hadassah Treu, an award-winning international author, poet, and blogger, who is passionate about encouraging the brokenhearted and helping others find hope in difficult seasons. Hadassah encourages us to discover the blessings and purposes in the painful seasons of our lives.
From Bulgaria to Austria and back, Hadassah shared how her most painful experiences have become the birthplace of blessings, and how surrendering our struggles to God can transform our journey.
If you’re ready to rediscover lasting joy and resilience through faith, this episode is packed with wisdom and practical encouragement to help you keep moving forward, no matter what you’re facing. I know what Hadassah shares will encourage, inspire, and challenge you, so listen in while I have a chat with Hadassah Treu.
Episode Highlights
00:00 Surrender to Rediscover Joy
06:32 From Illusions to Spiritual Growth
09:46 Faith Journey Through Writing
13:01 Spiritual Journeys in Christian Europe
17:37 “Finding Growth Through Pain”
21:47 Faith and God’s Definition of Good
24:53 Facing Failure: Losses and Gains
28:39 Pursuing Spiritual Maturity and Growth
30:58 Reflecting on God’s Work Through Journaling
34:02 Prophetic Poetry of Eternal Hope
37:16 “New Creations in Christ”
40:14 Inspiring Interview with Hadassah
We’re Talking About …
Connect with Hadassah!
You can connect with Hadassah at onthewaybg.com where you’ll find her blog posts, books, social media links, and helpful resources.
Hadassah Treu is an award-winning international author, blogger, poet, speaker, and spiritual growth mentor. She is the Encouraging Blogger Award Winner for 2020, the Literature Award Winner of the Municipality of Pazardzhik, Bulgaria for 2024, and a winner of the National Literary Translation Award “Stoyan Bakardzhiev”, Bulgaria for 2025. Hadassah loves to encourage and motivate people to stand firm in the faith, and grow spiritually by applying biblical truths in their lives. She loves diving deeper into the Word of God and finding hidden treasures. Her blog is on the Top 100 Faith Blogs (spot 19) on the web by Feedspot in 2025.
Hadassah is a regular contributor to several faith-based platforms like Devotable, Koinonia, COMPEL Pro Proverbs 31 Ministries Blog, COMPEL Pro Training Freelancing Group leader, and Blogger Voices Network contributor. She has been featured on The Upper Room, (In)Courage, Proverbs 31 Ministries, Her View From Home, Living by Design Ministries, Thoughts About God, Aletheia Today, Today’s Christian Living, The Way Back to Ourselves, and other popular sites.
Hadassah is also a contributing author to 14 devotional and poetry anthologies. She is also the author of 2 poetry books in Bulgarian: “A Guarantee for Another Life” and “Memories Keeper.”
Her first solo book “Draw Near: How Painful Experiences Become a Birthplace of Blessings” with Calla Press Publishing was released on March 15, 2024. Order HERE!
Hadassah is no stranger to suffering and losses. From the platform of her greatest pains equipped with lessons gathered on the way, she delivers a powerful message of comfort and hope, found in God’s Word.
What Threatens to Steal Your Joy?
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Transcript
Doris Swift [00:01:40]:
What is threatening to steal your joy? What is it that feels so heavy right now that you could barely stand? God has a plan and his plan is to surrender it. Surrender it to him. It might be a prodigal, it might be a relationship, a marriage, something with your job. So many things. We have so many amazing blessings, but there are so many things in our life that threaten to steal our joy. I’m Doris Swift, author of the award winning six week Bible study, Surrender the Joy. Rediscover the Jesus joy in you. And it helps women rediscover the overflowing, ever present Jesus joy within that fills, empowers and ripens the fruit that God produces in our lives.
Doris Swift [00:02:31]:
Using personal and biblical stories, I share how you can identify your joy stealers. Surrender them to God. Reawaken the joy within and share the joy with others. You can do it on your own or with a group. Check it out, friends. Surrender the joy stealers. Rediscover the Jesus joy in you. It’s available on all the online retailers.
Doris Swift [00:02:56]:
It’s time to take your joy back. Welcome back to the show. Today I’m excited to welcome my friend, Hadassah Troy. She is an award winning international authority poet. She’s a popular blogger and speaker and she loves motivating people to grow in faith and keep a hopeful outlook, which I love that so much because right now we just need hope. We need to share hope. We need to allow people to know the hope of Christ and bring that to the forefront and share the gospel. So I love that Hadassah is doing that and we are going to also be talking about her book, Draw near how painful experiences, experiences become the birthplace of blessings.
Doris Swift [00:03:44]:
And that alone should keep you listening throughout this whole episode. Thank you for being on the show. Welcome Hadassah.
Hadassah Treu [00:03:54]:
So much stories. I love your podcast. I love the topic Fierce Calling. This is really amazing. And I love the word fears.
Doris Swift [00:04:02]:
All right.
Hadassah Treu [00:04:04]:
Really? Because. Because we need this. We need this as followers of Christ and as you said, in this dark world when chaos and frustration and everything is growing, so to say, in negative sense, we need to stay fierce. We need to stay brave. We need to start to stay resilient and keep following the Lord wherever he leads and keep making disciples because this is our greatest mission.
Doris Swift [00:04:33]:
Amen. Amen. And you are coming to us from Bulgaria, which is amazing and I would love if you would share a little bit about your story, about your background, how you came to know Jesus and how you’re taking action, where your passion, compassion and conviction intersect.
Hadassah Treu [00:04:54]:
Yes, gladly. I’m coming from Bulgaria. I’m actually a Bulgarian and currently living in Bulgaria. It was not like this my whole life. And when I came to Christ, Bulgaria was still a communist country. So it was quite a wonder and miracle that I came to Christ as a teenager. Then for first time, I prayed to God, whom I didn’t know, and placed like an ultimatum to the universe because I wanted that my life to find some meaning. I wanted simply meaning and purpose in my life.
Hadassah Treu [00:05:33]:
And I felt this void, I felt this emptiness as a teenager. I guess a lot of teenagers are going through this phase, this is normal. But for me it was even heavier because I came from a family with difficult history and difficult relationships. And yeah, I needed God. So through arranging miraculous meetings and yeah, how only how God can do things, I came here, the gospel for the first time. And I immediately responded by faith. And this is how it all started. And then in my 30s, I met my future husband, the love of my life, so to say.
Hadassah Treu [00:06:32]:
And he however, was not a Bulgarian, he was an Austrian. And we married and I lived for 15 years in Austria. This is really a beautiful country, so I highly recommend to visit. And then actually in my 30s, it all started. And by all I mean the painful losing of my illusions and the painful gaining of reality. So it all started with facing a lot of struggles like infertility, anxiety disorders, panic attacks, marriage problems and a lot of other painful experiences. But this was actually the, the deep phases of spiritual formation and spiritual growth. And five years ago I got another blow, so to say the heaviest in my life up to now.
Hadassah Treu [00:07:43]:
I lost my husband unexpectedly. And yeah, this was followed by a lot of life altering changes. So I moved back to Bulgaria again, where I’m living here since four and a half years. And this is in short, my life story. But of course this life story has birthed this fierce calling. And I love the definition of how you define this fierce calling, this intersection of passion, compassion and conviction. I think this is one of the best definitions I’ve ever came to, to the word calling. Ms.
Hadassah Treu [00:08:26]:
So really wonderful. And my, my calling currently in this phase of my life is to encourage the broken hearted to trust God in the darkness of pain and adversity so they can keep their faith and so they can endure. And the passion is clear. The passion is really this to encourage, to motivate, to help. The compassion goes really to the hurting, to the wounded, to the brokenhearted and to the weary, to the spiritual weary, to the emotional weary, to the ones who simply are facing an intense emotional and spiritual pain and they are on the edge to give up or to bail or to give in to discouragement and despair. So this is where my, my compassion goes the most and my conviction. And I hope I will keep this conviction through, through my whole life till the end of my earthly life. My conviction is to keep moving forward, upward, Godward, to keep trusting God.
Hadassah Treu [00:09:46]:
Especially when things don’t make sense, especially when we can’t find any explanation, any meaning, any reasons, and when we can’t find the answers of our wise, so to say, to continue, trust in God, to continue following God, to continue following the Lord and respond, always respond to his call and invitation to move on the way of love and on the way of faith upward and upward and upward. And this calling has found its expression in my writing and speaking, which I started approximately eight years ago. The active phase, the preparation started earlier. Of course, the Lord has prepared me for this earlier. But eight years ago I started with my blog on the waybg.com which is now in the top 100 blogs actually on spot 19 feed spot for 225. And currently all this has led to three books. One of this is drawn here that you already mentioned, two poetry books. I’m also a co author of 14 other books, so anthologies and devotions and yeah, I’ve been writing on a lot of faith centered books platforms, freelancing and speaking on conferences and on my YouTube channel.
Hadassah Treu [00:11:27]:
And actually I’m using really the doors and the channels God is opening for me to spread this message and really to live my fierce calling.
Doris Swift [00:11:40]:
Beautiful. And thank you for taking each piece of the fierce calling definition and just sharing how God is using you and moving in your life in each of those three categories that intersect and have brought you forth in this fierce calling that you have. And it’s just a beautiful thing. And I love to your name I’ll have to mention because that is also biblically speaking, Queen Esther’s Hebrew name. Right. So. And that is just precious. And so when you were talking about how you came to Christ as a teenager and then after that, you know, you found your husband, you had a lot of heartbreaking struggles.
Doris Swift [00:12:28]:
And I, and I am very sorry about the loss of your husband and all that you were going through. You went back to your home country, Bulgaria, and you know, all the things you mentioned, there’s so much to unpack there. But I was wondering what is the temperature in Bulgaria and where you are as far as Christianity and in your family?
Hadassah Treu [00:12:53]:
How.
Doris Swift [00:12:54]:
How is that in your family? Do you do you have other family members become believers or.
Hadassah Treu [00:13:01]:
Bulgaria and also Austria. They are Christian countries. In Austria the main religion is the Catholic, so the Catholics are prevailing while Bulgaria is Orthodox, the Orthodox Christianity. However, I. I’m a member of Evangelical Pentecostal Church church and interestingly this was the church where I actually was brought for first time and where I believed more than 30 years ago. Yes. And now when I came back I went to the same church and yeah, it was really like come back. And regarding my family, the only one who is, let’s say a devout, a Christian follower in my family is my sister who also believed at the same age nearly when, when I came to Christ.
Hadassah Treu [00:13:59]:
And I also do believe that my father who died one and a half years ago near his death, also found the way to Christ. This is my, my firm conviction. And as for the rest of my family, I’m keeping them in my prayers and I firmly believe that, that God will answer these prayers because this is really the most important thing. Our salvation and getting to know him and the life he has for us.
Doris Swift [00:14:37]:
Amen and thank you for sharing all of that and how beautiful it is that you have this message of hope and you have been going forth and speaking boldly about Jesus and in your book draw near how painful experiences become the birthplace of blessings. If you could expand a little bit about how you share these things in your book and are there maybe a couple of takeaways you’d really want the listener to know and overall what you want your readers to take away from your book.
Hadassah Treu [00:15:17]:
Yes, the idea of the concept of this book was born really in the first one and a half years after I lost my husband. And I need to say that this time was really, really the most painful time in my life. I’ve really been through a lot and I always thought, oh, it can get worse. So I, I now have lived through so much the. But. But this was really the worst. I. I barely survived day, but I live day by day simply.
Hadassah Treu [00:15:50]:
And the worst was not simply the, the loss itself and all the other losses that it induces, but it was the struggle with God. It, it was the struggle of keeping my faith alive and keeping my trust in God alive, especially when there were no answers and there were only questions. And that’s why I needed urgently to have, for me, for myself to have a right theology of suffering, so to say, and to. To start to train my mind to think through, through how God sees things and through the biblical perspective about suffering. Because if it’s only pain, pain, pain, what is actually the good in it? Yes, we will give to many losses, but surely God will give us a lot of blessings too, and a lot of gains. So my question was, okay, these are the losses, but what are the gains? Of course, the gains are mainly spiritual. But surely this is not in vain what we are going through as believers. And the Lord has prepared a lot of good things in stuff for us.
Hadassah Treu [00:17:07]:
Of course I need to say here, good. The definition of good, the good. How God defines good is quite different from how we define good in many, many cases. This I need to say because they simply two main reasons for this and, and one reason is, are temporal. We are finite beings. We see things only from this temporal perspective. God is infinite, he is eternal. And he sees things that we even can’t forone and imagine.
Hadassah Treu [00:17:37]:
So as he beautifully says, my ways are not your ways and my thoughts are not your thoughts. And I think this is one of the the biggest lessons for me are to experience first the full weight of the pain of this realization that his ways are not my ways and his thoughts are not my thoughts. But then also to experience the comfort of this, of this statement. And this is of course the process of growth. So then this, this book was born. And I wanted through this book, through going through 13 painful experiences which I chose like betrayal, anxiety, rejection, grief, pain, depression, hopelessness, simply to share personal stories, biblical teaching, and simply what God has taught me in this. And then really then to practically help the reader to see the concrete losses in each of these experiences, to name it, to identify it, but also to see the list of the all the gains that the Lord has prepared for us in each of these experiences if only we press in and press up and don’t turn our backs to him, but really submit ourselves to this painful process. So this is the idea, it is still the idea of my book.
Hadassah Treu [00:19:09]:
And I hope that the people who read it are really getting this value out of it. As far as I’m reading reviews and feedbacks, what the most people say that this is a book which they can have constantly on their nightstand and refer in time and time again, especially if they are going through specific trauma or specific painful experience.
Doris Swift [00:19:41]:
And that is so encouraging and also just affirmation the Lord has given you that this is a message that you were called to write about and to share your personal experiences. And you know, sometimes we have to be very vulnerable and share experiences when the Lord leads and as he leads us to do so because it encourages others. And that is such a biblical truth that he has brought forth that, you know, we go through these things. So then we can in turn comfort others who are also going through it. And we’re actually comforting because we’re the hands and feet of Jesus. And I love how you said press in and press up because that, that really is a powerful phrase right there. Press in and press up. Because how you were saying, you know, there’s times in our lives where we don’t have answers, we just have questions.
Doris Swift [00:20:40]:
And yes, just seeing what God is doing in the big picture because there, this world is broken. We’re going to, like you say, go through suffering and heartbreak and heartache, which was never meant to be our life. It was never meant to be what God, you know, created us to go through. We were meant for, you know, Eden. So it’s like, you know, going through this but, but just so many things. I, I like how you were talking about gaining the right theology regarding suffering because when we go through suffering in our lives, there’s two directions we can go. We could either John near to God and we can take the perspective of the way that you have been presenting it and how you present it in your book or walk away. But I really feel like a lot of times when people do walk away, you know, God is still pursuing.
Doris Swift [00:21:47]:
So, you know, they, they would hopefully return at some time with even stronger faith. But you know, that’s not everybody’s story, but we would hope that it would be. And so does God, you know, he would not want anyone to perish. So as you encourage people with your book and share your story, I love the perspective that you’ve taken in the book where you show, well, what is the blessings and gain and the fact being that you were, which is an excellent point and I’m so glad you brought it up, is that our definition of good and even the world’s definition of good is not necessarily God’s definition of good. And so can you share maybe some of the blessings and gain? Because it’s not like the world would say gain like we want, like we’re just self focused and want to, you know, for our own personal gain. But it’s gain is something that God blesses us but also glorifies him. So what are some examples of that, Hadassah, of some gains and blessings.
Hadassah Treu [00:22:58]:
We’ll open my book and maybe read some concrete blessings. But I won’t say that the, the overall, of course the overall blessing which we find nearly in all painful experiences is exactly this possibility to lose our illusions. And by illusions I mean beliefs and Miscon. Mis. They’re not necessarily even misconceptions. Sometimes they’re simply immature, immature thinking, immature ideas, immature concepts about God or about ourselves. And this is painful. And then really gain, Gain more of him, more maturely, know him more maturely, know ourselves.
Hadassah Treu [00:23:38]:
And I think, and this is of course the growth and transformation. And this is the, the absolute greatest blessing, I think that that can, that we can experience on this earth because this is the preparation, really God’s training, God’s preparation for eternity, for sharing in his glory. And we know that this is what God wants for us. And we know that he’s preparing us for this. And we can’t stay children if we have to enter in his glory. And if we are and to share with him this. On the throne with him, to sit on the throne with him, then we can stay children. And, and this is I think, the greatest blessing that we need to see from this perspective.
Hadassah Treu [00:24:23]:
But let me open the book and simply read some of the gains in a concrete experience. For example, I here have the chapter the Gifts Hidden in Failure. Example. Let’s take this and I will open to the list at the end.
Doris Swift [00:24:47]:
Yeah. Because even the word failure has different meanings the way we look at it.
Hadassah Treu [00:24:53]:
Yes, yes, yes. And for example, here in my list is. But perhaps I will first read the couple of losses so we can make the contrast. What are the losses? What, what are the gains by failure? So the, the losses, the loss of self confidence and self validation, the loss of self respect, the lot of. The loss of satisfaction and contentment, the loss of motivation, enthusiasm and the willingness to go up, move forward. The law, the loss of other people’s respect, approval and admiration, the loss of a relationship. These are all possible potential losses, not only potential people actually experience, but maybe not all of them in, in all cases of failure. And then the gains when we draw near to God, because this is the important part, when we throw near to God, the gain of spiritual growth and maturity, the gain of experiencing and trusting God’s unconditional love and acceptance in Christ, the gain of humility and dying to self.
Hadassah Treu [00:26:01]:
The gain of learning to depend on God and both in him, the gain of repentance and accepting God’s forgiveness. I think this, this one is especially, especially important because when, when we struggle with failure, we often struggle with feeling that we can’t forgive ourselves or can’t accept the failure. And this can happen often. And this requires humility to, to accept forgiveness from God and then also forgive ourselves, so to say, and, and let go. The gain of finding God’s strength in my weakness or in our weaknesses. The gain of findings, self validation and realization in God alone. The gain of experiencing God’s willingness to forgive, heal and restore. The gain of tested and purified motivation.
Hadassah Treu [00:26:55]:
This one is one of the most important because failure can really help us a lot to purify our motivations and to expose the right motivations if we have some. The gain of growing in perseverance, self discipline and patience. Again, very, very important one. The gain of becoming stronger and more resilient. The gain of aligning our concepts for success with what the word of God says about success.
Doris Swift [00:27:26]:
Yes. Wow, that is amazing. I love all of the things that you talked about there and so encouraging. And I feel like everybody can relate to that. I mean, that’s going to encourage someone listening right now. Because when we look at it from a biblical worldview, from a godly worldview, when we see it through a lens of the Bible and what the Bible teaches and the actual true gospel, because there’s a lot of false gospels out there and there’s a big gospel of self going on right now where people, you know, are focusing on self, self help, self, everything. So I love that you brought that out and, and to how you mentioned humility and dying to self, you know, but also humility to forgive ourselves. Because I think you hit it right there.
Doris Swift [00:28:25]:
There’s so many, and even those who are listening right now who have found it very difficult to forgive themselves, you know, they may not even have any issues forgiving others for wrongs that have been done.
Hadassah Treu [00:28:39]:
Yes.
Doris Swift [00:28:39]:
But for themselves, you know, they can’t. And, but we, but we need to get to that place and how, you know, because sometimes when we think about it, it’s like, well, what does it mean to grow in faith? What does spiritual maturity mean? Like, what does that look like? You know, it’s not like you. I mean, you can get a degree in different biblical things, but what does it actually look like? You know, it has to have some fruit. You know, it’s gotta be. And not just a little fruit. I mean, in John 15, you know, Jesus talks about abundant fruit. And that doesn’t mean like personally prospering from the world’s standards of what prospering looks like. But, but to prosper in what the Lord is doing, you know, in, in the kingdom work that we have been given here on earth.
Doris Swift [00:29:26]:
So that is really very practical, which I love about it is it’s practical and people can like take that and look at it and say, oh yeah, well, that is applicable to my life because you know how sometimes there’s things in the Bible that are descriptive, you know, which isn’t necessarily something applicable to us as far as a specific thing that God is just sharing about and wanting us to know. But then prescriptive. This applies to my life, you know, and how that can. So that is so precious and I love that.
Hadassah Treu [00:30:01]:
And I, I just want to add that there are also reflection questions, prayer. So scripture guided prayer personalized for each painful experience and also what I really love and I think readers also love at the end. So like three, four to five declarations or takeaways that each one can take for himself or herself and just, I don’t know, just write it somewhere or pray with them or whatever because I think I find this for me personally very helpful for my quiet time with the Lord, for my devotional time with Him. I like so writing personal prayers, personal decorate, I mean declarations that also biblical, but I make them my personal declarations. And I think this has power because this helps us to internalize the Word of God. And this is powerful.
Doris Swift [00:30:58]:
Yes, very powerful. And you know, just the fact being too that when we write things down, we can later look and see what God has done. Like I was just telling my husband today, like I was out in, in our room where we have some storage and stuff and we have, we, we’ve gone through a couple of house floods because you know, we live in Florida and there’s hurricanes here. So I have to get a new bookshelf because I’ve got lots of books, of course I love books. And so I, I but I found an old like journal and it had had prayers from years back, you know, I’m, I’m going back a ways, you know, and even prayer requests and things and it’s just, it’s precious to look back and see what God has done because he may not have necessarily answered that prayer in the way that I was praying for an answer, but in a different way because as you said earlier, his ways are higher, you know, his thoughts are higher. And so to just draw near to him and to find his word and what his promises as an encouragement and hope because we do have the hope of Christ, you know, and that is ultimately the greatest hope we could have. And so that is, wow, such a blessing. And I love your blog on the way and that you are also a poet.
Doris Swift [00:32:28]:
So did that start when you were young? Like have you always loved?
Hadassah Treu [00:32:32]:
Yes, loved that actually I started, I could read at 4, at 4 years old. I mean, long before school and at 6 or 7, I already wrote my first poems or stories in rhyme. And I love writing poetry. I think this is simply my language. I wrote a lot in school and unfortunately all my notebooks from this time are gone forever. Doesn’t matter. But then I think someone, when I was 17 or 18 and then moving in adult life and studying and working, I stopped, stopped completely. I buried these gifts of, say, especially the point here.
Hadassah Treu [00:33:18]:
And very, very late in, when I was in my 40s, the Lord spoke specifically about this to me that it’s time to resurrect again this gift. It’s time to use again this gift. And I need to say I was scared. Okay. As a child I didn’t have any fear, but, but as an adult I was scared. And yeah, but I, but I followed, I started so writing again. Poetry and poetry also helped me to process my painful emotions. I need to say, because my first poetry book in Bulgarian, I, I write mainly Bulgarian poetry because this is my mother tongue.
Hadassah Treu [00:34:02]:
I have also some in English, but Bulgarian is my mother tongue. And my first poetry book is this I need to mention because this is how the Lord is working again and his ways are different now. Ways came a couple of days out, was published after the death of my husband. And the thing was that these poems were written in a period of two or three years before his death, so to say. And when I’m reading them and other people in my family, friends and whatever reading these poems, they all say that this is a prophetical book, that this is so sad book and it’s pointing to the eternal hope that we have in Christ, the eternal life. And even the title of my first poetry book is really, I think, symbolic because it’s called A Guarantee for Another Life. Yeah. And I mean when I think about the loss of my husband, so, and I’m referring to the deposit of the Holy Spirit and that he is our guarantee for eternity or for the next life.
Hadassah Treu [00:35:13]:
And then my second poetry book, it came out last year and it was written in this three, four, couple of years after that my husband. And it was really focused mainly on processing my grief. And I hope that with these poems they will also speak to, to other grieving, to other grieving people and express these painful emotions. So. Yeah. And from time to time, but, but I, poetry is a strange thing. I’m not sitting like this and saying, now I will write poetry as I sit to write an article or block. No, it’s strange because sometimes I, I, I call this a heavenly download.
Hadassah Treu [00:36:00]:
Sometimes just. Yeah, just as I’m doing something or in the evening or in the middle of the night or whatever, I’m. And then. So it comes. It starts with the phrase or with the. With the things, and comes, Comes, comes the heavenly download. And it’s not forced. It’s not.
Hadassah Treu [00:36:20]:
I can’t call this even work or whatever. It’s really a strange thing. Yeah. But. But a wonderful gift. Wonderful.
Doris Swift [00:36:28]:
Beautiful. Yeah. And. And so expressive in it, you know, and even if you don’t write poetry, I mean, just reading it, it just, you know, you can just feel the emotion of the poet.
Hadassah Treu [00:36:44]:
Exactly.
Doris Swift [00:36:44]:
And so.
Hadassah Treu [00:36:45]:
Emotion.
Doris Swift [00:36:46]:
Yeah, it comes right out in it. And. And I. And I love that you started when you were younger, but I really think what you shared will encourage someone right now because sometimes people feel like, well, I used to do that and I really loved it, but, you know, I haven’t done that in years, so that’s the end of that. But it can ebb and flow and come back in another season in your life. And. And as you said that we. We have the hope of everlasting life.
Doris Swift [00:37:16]:
And then when we are in Christ, we are new creations and there’s always something fresh and new, like the Word says, you know, that God is doing a new thing and he makes all things new. And so I love that word new and how God really encourages us in that. This has been really a huge blessing to have you on the show. And I know that some of the listeners may have already either read your books or checked out your blog, which you mentioned earlier, maybe have some of the writings that you have shared on Proverbs 31 or on encourage or some of these other very popular sites. But if you could share Hadassah, how can the listser connect with you and find out all about, you know, your. Your blogs and your books and everything so they can connect with you.
Hadassah Treu [00:38:08]:
I would be very happy to connect with your listeners. And the best way to connect is of course, coming on my blog on the way BGCom, and then they can sign in for my newsletter because I think this is really the best way to stay in regular contact. I’m sending my newsletter Keep the Faith with updated contact with helpful resources from other bloggers, writers, speakers with announcements twice in the month. So I don’t want to overwhelm people. So twice in the month. And I’m really enjoying this contact when I’m getting feedback, when I’m getting prayer requests, when I’m getting questions and getting to know people better because, you know, social Media, social media. But I think one of the best ways stay in in email contact. So this is one way.
Hadassah Treu [00:39:01]:
And they can sign in on my website and otherwise, yeah, I’m present on social media with the handle on the way, bgcom on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and with the handle adasatroy on Instagram. I also have a YouTube channel, adasatroy author, where, yeah, I’m also offering this content which I write about in another form and also adding some other stuff too. And yeah, my books on Amazon and also on Goodreads. So I think these are the main places that we can connect with, with people.
Doris Swift [00:39:44]:
Wonderful. Yes. And your last name is pronounced tri, but it’s T, R, E, U, Correct?
Hadassah Treu [00:39:51]:
Troy. Troy, yeah.
Doris Swift [00:39:52]:
Troy.
Hadassah Treu [00:39:55]:
This. Troy is a German word. German. And it has a beautiful meaning. Don’t forget that my husband is an Austrian. Was an Austrian. So Troy means faithful. Faithful, loyal.
Doris Swift [00:40:14]:
Wow. Well, you can’t get a much better last name than that, so that’s amazing. So, wow. Thank you so much again for being on the show and taking time out and just sharing hope and encouragement with those who are listening today. And I know that it’s not by any accident that someone is listening to this today, you know, because there’s something that you shared that they needed to hear. So this has just been a blessing. So thank you for listening and well, Hadassah, thank you for being on the show and I hope to have you back on again soon sometime.
Hadassah Treu [00:40:48]:
Thank you. Thank you, Doris. This was such a joy and pleasure. I really love your podcast and I would be happy to chat again someone in the future. It’s really a pleasure.
Doris Swift [00:40:58]:
I’d be very honored to have you back on this show. And friends, thank you again for listening and I hope you join me next time when I talk with another woman who’s taking action where her passion, compassion, and conviction intersect. Until then, friends, friends, have a blessed week and I’ll talk to you soon.
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