By Michaela Gordoni
Hallmark star Nikki DeLoach is sharing one of her greatest accomplishments — pushing aside fear and choosing faith.
“I wanted to challenge myself this year to place my faith over my fear in whatever struggle, situation, or decision I was facing,” she began in a social media post May 5. “Easier said than done, right? Right. This is no easy mountain to climb.”
She hinted that she had a hard year and hadn’t cried this much since her dad passed away.
“Because choosing faith over fear requires you to sit with and in uncertainty, discomfort, fear of judgement, disappointment and even failure,” she said. “It requires humility, honesty and an unwavering commitment to self-love and self-worth.”
DeLoach chose “miracles” as her word for 2025 because she wanted a reminder to have hope and be faithful.
“Since January 1st, 2025, I’ve looked and found miracles every single day,” she said. “And every time I pause to delight in those miracles, I can feel my angels near, whispering, ‘You are on the right path. Keep going.’
DeLoach has taken the leap of faith, but she now believes God is going to catch her — she isn’t going to fall.
“Whatever it is that you are up against today, whatever challenge, decision, struggle you are facing, choose yourself, choose love, choose faith over fear. Because there is one thing I know for sure…you are absolutely worth it,” she said.
Though DeLoach has a lot of bright spots in her life as a mom to two boys and as a Hallmark star, she’s had her share of turmoil, too.
Her youngest son, Bennett, now 7, had three open-heart surgeries before he turned 2. Each time was a very risky operation, and the first surgery was when he was five days old.
“When Bennett was in the [operating] room and we were waiting, I felt like my heart was being cut into,” she said in a 2022 interview with The Retaility. The doctors told her later that his condition was worse than they expected.
“It was the worst-case scenario and he only had one coronary artery, not two coronary arteries, and the coronary artery was in the wrong place,” she recalled. “That’s the thing where they almost lost him on the table during the surgery — it was moving that coronary artery.”
After Bennett’s birth, her father had a sudden onset of dementia and later died. She knows Bennett will need more intense surgeries in the future. Through it all, DeLoach learned how to keep her head up.
“I had to re-examine my relationship with God and what it meant to walk with God and Jesus in your life every single day,” she said. “[I believe that] God doesn’t do these things to us…The truth of the matter is that life is hard and bad stuff happens to all of us.”
Disease, illness and bad things happen to everyone, but we choose how we handle them.
“It is our faith that helps us to give any situation meaning,” she continued. “Whether that situation is painful or whether it is full of joy, it is our faith that helps us look at it and say, ‘How can I give this purpose?”
DeLoach is certainly courageous in her faith. She’s right — taking a leap into the unknown isn’t easy, but God’s there to catch her in His arms, redeeming the hardest of circumstances.
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