About Me
My Story
I’m Candace Lane — a former nurse, a wife, a mom, and a woman who knows what it feels like to fall apart and find grace anyway. After hitting my own rock bottom, God met me with love, not condemnation. Holy Grit was born from that story — a place where brokenness turns into beauty and grit gets covered in grace.
Why Holy Grit Was Born
Faith isn’t about perfection — it’s about surrender. After my own journey through addiction, loss, and rebuilding, God showed me that real strength is found in His hands. Holy Grit is my way of offering others the same hope that changed my life: Jesus doesn’t quit, even when we feel like we might.
What You'll Find Here
Here you’ll find free devotionals, faith-building resources, honest encouragement for real life, and a whole lot of reminders that you are not too broken for God's best. Dive in, grab your free devotional, and let's walk this journey together!
About Candace | Founder of Holy Grit
Meet Candace Lane
I didn’t wake up one day and decide to start a Christian blog.
I was called to it.
Dragged through fire, rescued from death, and planted in purpose.
I’m Candace Lane—a former registered nurse turned stay-at-home mom, content creator, and now… blogger.
But titles don’t tell the story.
I’m a woman who has:
- overdosed
- detoxed
- broken five vertebrae
- cried on hospital floors
- picked up recovery chips
- and still showed up for her kids
I’ve been labeled, medicated, and misunderstood.
But let me be clear. God healed me.
No medication. No diagnosis. No lie from hell could silence the truth that set me free.
10 days in a mental hospital.
I spent 6 months in rehab.
Years running from the very thing I’m now standing in my calling.
I’m not just a writer. I’m a seer and prophetic scribe.
God speaks to me through dreams, visions, colors, and quiet moments I can’t unsee.
And I write what He gives me, whether it wrecks the room or revives it.
I don’t sugarcoat. I don’t shrink back.
I just say what He said, and trust Him with the rest.
I’m a mom of four, but only two of my babies live with me.
I know what it feels like to parent through pain.
To smile while shattered.
To fight for sobriety with nothing but fumes and prayer.
In 2020, I broke my back just six months postpartum.
I weighed over 100 pounds more than I do now.
And I thought my life was over.
But God used my rock bottom as the foundation for something unshakable.
What is Holy Grit?
Holy Grit isn’t a brand.
It’s how I live.
It’s how I parent.
It’s how I pray.
It’s how I keep showing up when everything in me wants to quit.
This blog is for the woman who’s done with surface-level scripture and cute captions.
It’s for the one who’s walked through rehab, rage, religion, and real pain, and still wants more of Jesus.
I’m not here to coddle you.
I’m here to call you up.
You don’t need a platform.
You need an altar.
You don’t need followers.
You need freedom.
And you don’t need perfect.
You need Holy Grit.
Welcome to the table, sis.
Pull up a chair. You’re home.
I write weekly on Substack—where I go deeper into prophetic insight, recovery truths, and unfiltered faith stories.
It’s where I say the quiet stuff out loud.
Come read + subscribe here.
