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Gillian (hard "G") earned her undergraduate degree in business, and has also completed several masters courses through seminary with a focus in apologetics. A photographer by trade and homeschooling teacher of two, she has been blogging truth since 2004. By God's grace, Gillian has had 17 surgeries, blindness, severe spinal injury, a major car accident, but has never stopped praising the Lord's faithfulness. "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives" (Genesis 50:20).
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