God Is Writing This Story, and We Trust His Hand

“There are certain lives that do not merely teach truth—they embody it. Lives that feel like open books, written not in ink, but in surrender.” 

Laura González-De-Chávez, Director of Aviva Nuestros Corazones (Revive Our Hearts in Spanish), shared those words about Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth and her dear husband, Robert, in a social media post published on January 9, 2026. The following morning, January 10, following a brief but intense battle with complications from pneumonia, Robert left his earthly body and entered into the presence of Christ. 

With Valentine’s Day tomorrow, we find ourselves thinking tenderly of Nancy, as February 14 also marks what would have been her next “month-a-versary” with Robert. 

A Testimony of Surrender

We share Laura’s words below not simply as a tribute to Nancy and Robert’s marriage, but as a testimony of what it looks like to live in surrender to Jesus Christ. This isn’t the story of two perfect people—Nancy and Robert would be the first to insist their story is not about them. Their story testifies to the goodness of an extraordinary God who has graciously worked in the lives of two ordinary people.

Even now, in the midst of grief, God is still writing Nancy’s story—and the same faithful hand that authored her years of singleness and beautiful marriage is sovereign over this chapter as well. His purposes have not faltered, and His grace has not diminished.

The same is true for you. Whether you are single, married, widowed, longing, rejoicing, or grieving—your story, too, is in His hands. May Laura’s tribute encourage you to entrust yourself wholly to God, so that your life, too, will declare: “God is writing this story, and we trust His hand.”

There are certain lives that do not merely teach truth—they embody it. 
Lives that feel like open books, written not in ink, but in surrender.

Nancy and Robert are such lives.

When I think of Nancy, I think of the quiet, steady grace of a woman who trusted God with her whole story. Not rushing Him. Not demanding answers. Not grasping for outcomes. 

God allowed her to walk many years single—not as a waiting room, but as a calling. A life full, fruitful, and fiercely devoted to Him. And then, without her seeking it, without striving or orchestrating, God wrote a new chapter. A surprising one. A tender one.

Into her life He brought a gentleman—kind, godly, humble. A man who loves her, loves the Lord, loves the ministry, and loves the people who love her. That alone speaks volumes about the heart of God.

And then they married. Not as a private retreat from the world, but as a public testimony to the faithfulness of God.

Even their honeymoon bore witness. That a newly married couple would choose to spend those sacred first days sharing life with others speaks of their selflessness. Their open hands. Their open hearts. 

They do not guard their lives; they give them. They do not perform faith; they live it—plainly, honestly, reverently—before a watching world. What they teach us is not merely what to believe, but how to live as children of God who truly trust Him. Lives lived without walls, without ceilings, without hidden rooms—lives exposed to the gaze of others, yet anchored in the sovereignty of God. Lives that say, without words: God is writing this story, and we trust His hand.

They honored God with their marriage. They offered it back to Him as a platform for service—for mentoring husbands in faithful love, for encouraging women to walk in godly womanhood, for reminding the Church that marriage itself can be an act of worship.

And now, in this final and painful trial—Robert on his journey home—the same grace is on display again. Nancy lives this suffering before the world with the same surrender with which she lived her joys. Still teaching. Still pointing upward. Still reminding us what it looks like to belong wholly to God.

There truly are no adequate words. Nancy has no substitute. She was made by God for a time like this, for moments like these. Her life is not explainable apart from the supernatural grace of God. And through her, God has given a profound gift to His Church.

So let us rejoice in that grace. Let us thank God for her life. Let us honor her, love her, and lift her in prayer. And let us follow her example—as she follows Christ. As the apostle Paul once said, “Follow me, as I follow Christ.” In watching Nancy, we are reminded again how beautiful that invitation can be. —Laura González-De-Chávez