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At first glance, Simone Lee seems like any other girl trying to survive middle school, friendships, family expectations, and the awkward uncertainty of growing up. But everything changes after a terrifying accident involving her best friend Lena forces Simone face-to-face with a gift she cannot explain. What begins as a moment of desperate prayer soon becomes undeniable. Simone has the ability to heal through the power of God.
As miraculous moments continue unfolding around her, Simone’s world becomes increasingly complicated. Her family constantly relocates after each healing, leaving Simone emotionally exhausted and resentful. She struggles to understand why helping people always seems to cost her something personally. Every move forces her to start over, leave friendships behind, and rebuild her life again and again.
At school, Simone experiences friendship, competition, insecurity, and first love while carrying a secret that separates her from everyone else around her. Through relationships with Naomi, Andre, Lena, her parents, and her growing faith, Simone slowly begins to understand that purpose often arrives hand in hand with sacrifice.
Filled with emotional highs and heartbreaking moments, The Gift Is Me explores what it means to trust God even when life feels unfair. It is a story about identity, spiritual calling, forgiveness, and learning that some gifts are bigger than fear, pain, or uncertainty.
Some stories entertain you for a moment. Others stay with you long after you finish the final page. The Gift Is Me does both. It combines heartfelt storytelling, emotional vulnerability, spiritual depth, and relatable teenage experiences into a novel that feels intimate and genuine.
Readers who enjoy stories centered around faith, family, friendship, emotional growth, and discovering personal purpose will connect deeply with Simone’s journey. The book explores difficult emotions honestly while still carrying hope at its center. It reminds readers that faith is not always simple, healing is not always easy, and purpose sometimes arrives through painful change.
This is more than a story about miracles. It is a story about growing up, learning who you are, and finding strength in God when life refuses to stay comfortable.
If you live long enough, one thing is certain. You will face major obstacles. How you choose to handle them matters. I wrote this book, because in 2010, the unthinkable happened. My infant daughter was diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening medical condition, and on the heels of that revelation, my father died of cancer. There were moments I did not think I would survive all the stress and grief. I did.
You Can Handle It shares the lessons and strategies I learned in the context of my journey. My hope is that someday they will help you.