Lisa Harper

Spanx.

It's a great movie.

Well, what happened was I had been, and when I say successful, I'm using the term loosely, but I'd been able to kind of pull myself up by my bootstraps and just work hard at being a dutiful Christian.

For a long time, I'd been in vocational ministry.

I'd gone to seminary the first go around, so I knew just enough Greek and Hebrew to hide behind it.

I was just so afraid that somebody would look under the hood of my life and find me to be a fraud.

And everything just kind of the bottom fell out.

I was diagnosed with cancer, ended up being not a big deal, but it presented real serious at first.

I lost my dad, my stepfather, and that was a real tough relationship.

He came to Christ eight weeks before he died, but it was a pretty difficult relationship up to that.

And then I lost another primary relationship.

And I just had this...

Doggone it, I feel like the three main kind of legs under the stool in my life have been knocked out from under me.

And I just, I was kind of shocked to find myself not able to put one foot in front of the other anymore.

And I can remember it like it was yesterday.

I had this little cottage out in Leapers Fork, Tennessee, lived by myself.

And I was on the floor, and I've had too much shame to have healthy weakness up until that point.

So I pretended, oh, no, I'm fine, I'm fine.

God, you've got so much to do with Iraq.

I'm fine, I'm fine.