Alita Langford is an inspirer. I don’t quite know how else to describe her. Sure, she is a self-made businesswoman, a very talented singer and songwriter, a widow, and now a wife again and mom to 8, but more than all of that, she is an inspirer.

In 2016 Alita lost her late husband suddenly to unforeseen heart issues. She was 33 with 4 kids under the age of 6 and within the following 18 months, she also lost your mom and dad. It would be easy to assume her story is a heavy one, marked primarily with pain and uncertainty, both of which she’s certainly had her fill of. But to know Alita is not to know a woman of grief; to know her is to know a woman who fights for joy and life and love. To do life with her is to witness someone who lives from the victory she knows is hers in Christ, regardless of what’s happening to her or around her.

FOR THOSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STRUGGLE

Even in the darkest days of her grief, Alita was intentional to speak truth to herself daily, discovering the powerful practice of declaring aloud what’s true about God and true about herself. Though never dismissing or mitigating her grief, she began claiming what she knew God could do and redeem in her life, speaking it and writing it on her bedroom walls even when she didn’t yet feel it to be true.

Life in general – and especially in difficult seasons – calls us to fight for joy in the present even as we are waiting and trusting the Lord with our future. In the struggle, we can do more than just survive, Alita witnesses, we can actually grow into a deeper, richer us if we accept the call to endure and overcome. 

FOR THE WOMEN IN WAITING (ON LOVE, ON DREAMS, ON THE NEXT GOOD THING)

It was after 3 and half years of fighting, claiming, and waiting that Alita met her new husband, Rodney. And though she struggled at times to imagine how God would answer her specific and resilient prayers for a new husband and family, she speaks with such gratitude now about how God refined and restored her into an even better version of herself in the waiting.

To all who are disappointed, waiting on love or dreams or anything, Alita says:

FOR THE MOMS

As a mom of 8 (4 biological, 3 adopted, and 1 “bridged,” i.e. the baby she’s now had with her new husband), I asked Alita some practical questions to encourage and bring a little life to all the moms out there. Here’s a few that we cover:

1. How do you shepherd and lead kids through hard seasons?
2. Is it important that your kids see you struggle?
3. How do you resist comparing yourself to other moms?
4. How do you prioritize time for yourself as individual & as wife?

As chosen, resilient women of God, we all have the ability to walk in victory, no matter what we’re facing. Look to the example of this inspiring woman and claim what Scripture says is true about you as you fight for the future you’re waiting on.

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