How 850 Grace Started

I lived in the same rental home for twenty years. When my landlord’s family decided to move in, the ground shifted under my feet and I stepped into the hardest season of my life—housing uncertainty, health challenges that didn’t care about my timeline, and nights when I wondered if God still saw me. The search felt endless and heavy. I had to box up a life, say quiet goodbyes to rooms that knew my stories, and relearn how to breathe when the future wouldn’t sit still long enough to reassure me.

Somewhere inside that ache, a vow took shape: if God opened a door, I would walk through it differently. I promised to deepen my faith, to notice grace in the ordinary, and to live with a quieter kind of courage. When the new home finally came, small but enough, I knew I couldn’t keep that promise tucked away. 850 Grace is the record of that vow—an honest page-by-page account of trusting God in tight spaces, of starting again when you think you’re out of starts, and of finding that grace isn’t measured in square feet at all.