About the Author

Photography by Ben Haupt
Having experienced both profound loss and abundant grace, Jill D. Johnson has spent her life discovering the faithfulness of God through every season. Her story is one of redemption, resilience, and the transforming power of God’s love.
After surrendering her life to Christ at a young age, her faith was deeply tested through personal tragedy. At twenty-seven, while pregnant with her first child, she lost her first husband in a car accident. Two years later, she remarried and was blessed with three more children. Today, she treasures a growing family that includes a quiver full of grandchildren. She also walked through the heartbreak of losing her only sister to breast cancer, experiences that deepened her dependence on God’s grace and strengthened her desire to encourage others facing life’s challenges.
Together with her husband, she has been privileged to minister throughout Utah, serving people of diverse faith backgrounds, supporting pastors and their wives, and investing in the lives of countless women. Her passion is helping others discover hope, healing, and a deeper relationship with Christ.
Before moving to Utah, she graduated from Westmont College in 1991 and lived in Germany, where she worked as a Regional Sales Manager for Stars and Stripes and Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) bookstores. She also served with Cadence International ministries, ministering to military communities overseas.
Today, she works as a paralegal, enjoys caring for her aging parents, and treasures both the everyday and milestone moments shared with her children and grandchildren. An avid outdoors enthusiast, she loves hiking weekly in Utah’s mountains, where she finds refreshment, perspective, and inspiration in God’s creation.
Through her writing and ministry, she seeks to point others to the beauty God brings from brokenness and to the hope found in Christ alone.
Designed with WordPress