At just eighteen, Sammy’s world was turned upside down when she and her family were given the overwhelming news of being diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening disease. Instead of giving in to the fear-ridden life of having a disease, Sammy became an advocate for others living with a rare disease.

Living in today’s world is hard enough, but throw living with a chronic illness into the mix, and things get a lot more challenging. Walking in the Valley with God is a personal and encouraging devotional for young adult women. Sammy covers themes such as navigating life with a rare disease, the struggles of singlehood, embracing your God-given femininity, navigating toxic friendships, and so much more.

This devotional serves as a reminder to women that no matter what valleys they might be walking through, God is present and the journey through the valley can create a deeper relationship with God and others, enhance our faith, and teach us unexpected life lessons.

Some friendships feel like sunlight - easy, warm, and the kind that doesn’t ask anything of you except laughter that spills over and stays. Others, almost without warning, begin to feel like wandering - quietly leading you off the path and into places you never meant to go.

In Walking in the Wilderness with God, Sammy shares a deeply personal account of a friendship that slowly became suffocating, confusing, and heartbreakingly difficult to navigate. What was once built on faith, Taylor Swift lyrics, and late-night conversations, turned into an exhausting trek through thickets, silence that felt loud, and storms that seemed to last longer than they should have.

But the wilderness wasn’t empty.

In the most fragile and undone places, God met Sammy, not after the healing was finished but in the middle of it. The ache, the unraveling, the moments she wasn’t sure if she would make it out with her heart intact.

Sammy offers a story that is both deeply personal and quietly universal – one that reminds us that God will never leave us in the wilderness.