The author : a lost sheep but found ; a found sheep and redeemed.

The author is a restored, a redeemed woman of YHVH Elohim, The Creator of the universe Who has made of Himself Elohei Abraham, Elohei Itzhak and Elohei Ya'akov/Ishrael, and Who has caused her heart to receive His Set-Apart and Powerful Hebrew Name YeHoVaH through His Sent One, His Mashiach Yehoshua Ben HaElohim.

In great humility, the author also portrays herself according to the following Letters that Sha'ul the Apostle once wrote to the Congregations of old during his ministry, especially to those who have been also restored from being of sons of disobedience (bearing in mind that he himself has been redeemed from the religion of the Jews, Judaism, described as vain worship by YHVH Elohim) :

1 Corinthians 6 : 20a : « For you were bought with a Price ». The Price ? The Precious Shed-Blood of Yehoshua HaMashiach. ⮎ Yes, I was also bought with The Same !
Ephesians 2 : 1 – 3 ; 13 : « And He made you alive when you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all also once lived in the desires of our flesh, and have done according to the will of the flesh and thoughts ; and according to our nature, we were also children of wrath as the others ... v.13 : But now you are in Yehoshua HaMashiach, you, who were once far off, have been brought near by the Blood of Yehoshua HaMashiach ». ⮎ Yes, deliberately I have nothing to debate as assuredly what they were according to these scriptures, I really was. But my Creator has restored me from my very blameful old path through the Redeeming Blood of The Lamb of Elohim, and has deeply touched my heart, my ears, and my eyes and caused them to get me close to and to know Who my Creator is. Yes, I was once very far off as I had even nothing to do with the scattered native ones, but He found me and brought me also from there I was to become a Servant of His, through The Son.

2 Corinthians 5 : 17 : « Therefore, if anyone is in HaMashiach he is a new creation. The old things have passed away ; behold, they have become new ! ». ⮎ Absolutely, not only I became a very new creation of YHVH Elohim in Yehoshua HaMashiach. but I also became their Witness according to the Words of HaMashiach, as per Yehochanan 15 : 16a, as it is written : « You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and appointed you to go and produce fruit ». ⮎ Yes, I declare that He has also chosen me among the thousands big misled, lost, disoriented women and has sent me to call to repentance. I did not even know what repentance is until the day He pierced my heart.

And His Calling toward me is also according to His Words, as per Ieshayah 42 : 16, as it is written : « I will guide the blind ones to the Way they do not know ; and unto unknown Way I will bring them. I will turn darkness into Light before them, and the rugged places I will level them out. These things I will do to them, and I will not leave them undone ». ⮎ I was spiritually deeply blind indeed, but He has transformed the intense darkness into Marvelous Light before me. I dare say, a divine deliverance !

And after my first pilgrimage in Eretz Ishrael in 2007, I gave myself the very inspired nickname Shamira, a Hebrew name that would mean « who defends ». Shamira is used among my extended family, and also among my acquantancies in Eretz Ishrael, but I am known by other people as Sara, a simple derived noun from the first two initials of my first name and my surname, in this order.

I strongly believe that YHVH Elohim has got well-defined plans for the big disoriented woman that I was to help the others to get out of darkness, too, like Shimon Kefã once wrote, according to 1 Kefã 2 : 9b : « A people chosen by YHVH Elohim for Himself that you may proclaim the Excellencies of The One Who called you out of darkness into His Marvelous Light ».
And according to Yirmeyah 23 : 28b : « And he who has My Word, let him speak My Word truthfully ! »

I praise Your Kadosh Name O YHVH Elohim, Elohei Ishrael and Elohai, as according to Your Will You became my Elohim, too !