Nicole Shanahan, a former running buddy of former Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced last week that he was baptized in January after “accepting Jesus as (her) savior.”
The 39-year-old wrote to X last Tuesday after searching for peace through years of eastern religions, personal development programs and even Judaism.
When I said yes to accepting Jesus as my Savior, I felt something that I could barely express. It was like being wrapped in a warm coco, becoming a grounded, weighted, immovable obelisk.
Sensing spiritual wars
According to Shanahan, her decision to accept Christ was the result of both external events and faithful Christian prayers.
These external events included what she suffered in September called the “heartbreaking loss,” as well as her experience as a major financial backer for Kennedy's presidential campaign, and ultimately, his running peers. Shanahan refused to elaborate on the family tragedy for the time being. But she was very clear about her political experience, the campaign in which Democrats adopted all the dirty tricks of the book to keep Kennedy away from the vote, and the media kept lying about the Magazine movement.
Learning how far I can go to inflict cruelty on innocent Americans has awakened me. Other inexplainable events forced us to reconsider whether we were fighting a war with not only flesh and blood but spiritual power.
Many people are embarrassed to acknowledge the reality of spiritual warfare. However, someone who saw addiction up close (Shanahan's father was an alcoholic) or overcome deep trauma and witnessed how evil takes its path in this world.
The devil certainly exists, and Jesus is our covenant with God to fight them.
Massage appeal
After a 2023 divorce from her second husband, Shanahan began receiving massages from a “Maya Mexican immigrant” named ADE, she said. She was worried because she was “thin, fragile, completely worn, and suffering.”
“One day,” she wrote,
In the end, his prayers struck me that he had done more to heal me than ever before deep tissue massage. We concluded the session and said, “Hey, do you know someone who can help to keep 'bad energy' away from people? Basically exorcism. “Ade looked at me, paused, and simply said, “Yes – when you're ready.”
A few weeks after the loss of our family, I saw ADE again. But this time it was different. I bowed my head, dropped my tears, and asked for God's help.
Kindred Soul-Winner
Seeing Shanahan is ready, Ade contacts a Christian named Diane. Diane, Septuagen's grandmother, is also the leading pastor of the country's fifth largest prison. They met the following day, on January 19th.
Diane helped her to be a “mixed race woman from Auckland,” she noted. Shanahan is from the same city and is of German, Irish and Chinese descent. More importantly, Shanahan writes that Diane is “a deep and faithful soul who helped me get closer to Jesus.”
Shanahan recalls that Diane had led her (Diane's) “poems after the poem” to her “laser precision” to her “worn and beloved Bible.” result:
The pain of life can consume your entire reality, and its injustice, loss, and its extreme nature can all feel unbearable. The weight of the world, perpetuated by greed, lies, and indifference, can often feel hopeless. Diane looked at me and said with absolute certainty that Jesus could save me – his blood could wash away sin and defeat the darkness that bothers the innocent.
I think the pain of that moment, the hopeless need for hope, and the unshakable strength of Diane's eyes required unshakable strength to finally break through the last, most stubborn skeptic in my mind. When Diane asked if I wanted to be baptized, I didn't hesitate – I said yes.
Jews for Jesus
Shanahan, of course, was well versed in the concept of the Messiah, converted to Judaism in 2014 while working with her first husband, the Jew. She did not want to avoid fleeting emotional decisions to study for a year at a synagogue in San Francisco. And she “written a 10-page conversion statement,” she described as “a deep dive into the Torah led by the wisdom of several teachers.”
Shanahan continued:
For over a decade, I have identified myself as a Jew. But now, with the New Testament in my hands, I am looking at the spiritual pain of the world in ways never before. It seems that the veil is lifted and reveals a deeper understanding of the struggle between light and darkness.
Today I am Jesus' Jew.
Shanahan provided these words of encouragement:
For those searching, those who once felt the same admiration as me, I can say this. Faith is not about having all the answers, but about trusting those who do so. And when you find him, you will finally know that you are at home.
She was closed with the Latin translation of verse sal 127:1:
Unless the Lord builds a house, those who build it will work in vain.
