CALLED. CRUSHED. COVERED. A Pastor’s Journey Through Betrayal, Burnout, and the Grace to Keep Leading: The Book

Crushing is not proof you were wrong. It’s often evidence you were trusted.

In Called. Crushed. Covered., Dr. Delisa Rodgers opens her life with unflinching honesty, sharing the unseen cost of twenty years of pastoring, mothering, mentoring, and leading while bleeding in silence. This is not a platform story. It is a process story.

This book is for:

• Leaders who poured out while running on empty
• Pastors who preached hope while privately carrying grief
• Mothers who raised sons and daughters who later walked away
• Prophets who prayed for others’ healing while suppressing their own pain

Dr. Rodgers does not sanitize the journey. She writes about betrayal without bitterness. Burnout without shame. Financial lack without exaggeration. Emotional pain without theatrics. What emerges is not a tale of survival—but of covering.

Because every crushing produced oil.

Every abandonment revealed protection.

Every season of silence clarified assignment.

Scripture reminds us, “Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm” (Psalm 105:15, KJV).

Harm may come—but so does preservation.

This book is not about proving strength.

It is about honoring endurance.

If you stayed when leaving would have made sense…

If you kept showing up when applause disappeared…

If you questioned whether the oil was still flowing…

This book is your confirmation.

God still sees you.

You are not forgotten.

You are not finished.

You are still anointed.

Still appointed.

And still covered.

This is not just a memoir.

It is language for wounds you never named.

Healing for weight you never put down.

And a reminder that because you endured—

the oil still flows.