My name is Xochitl (So-Cheel) E. Dixon. I love Jesus and people! I am a disabled Mexican wife (since 1994), mom, stepmom, mother-in-law, and Lolli (grandma) of eight wonderfully, marvelously made image-bearers. I serve the Lord with my beautifully diverse family and my service dog, Callie.
I enjoy sharing God’s truth and love every chance God gives me!
I have the pleasure and privilege of serving Jesus as an author and a speaker. I have been a regular contributor for Our Daily Bread Ministries and God Hears Her since 2015, and have contributed to multiple Our Daily Bread and God Hears Her compilations. My 31-day devotionals, Waiting for God: Trusting Him for the Answers to Every Prayer (2019, 2025) and Sacred Strides: Walking in the Power and Presence of the Holy Spirit (July 2025) are published through Our Daily Bread.
I have also published three children’s picture books. Different Like Me was published in 2019 by Our Daily Bread, translated to Spanish in 2022 (Diferente como yo), and has been translated into four other languages. What Color is God’s Love? and Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown were published by WaterBrook Kids in 2024.
I contributed the “Choose to Change” feature in Tyndale’s NLT Go Bible for Kids, released in 2024, and am currently working on another project for Tyndale.
I have also contributed devotions to a Women’s Bible (release date coming). To God be the glory, the honor, and the praise!
I enjoy equipping and encouraging other writers by serving as an advisor and workshop leader for the Publishing in Color Online Conference, under the leadership of Joyce Dinkins.
I also serve as the Vice President of Redbud Writers Guild, a group of diverse Christian communicators dedicated to cultivating writers, uplifting women of faith, and transforming culture.
I believe in the One True God, eternally existing in three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who are equal in divinity and perfection, as described in the doctrine of the Trinity.
I believe in the authority and relevance of the Bible, the unerring and unchanging God-breathed words of Scripture that the Holy Spirit inspired, protects, and preserves. I usually teach from the NIV, NLT, CSB, ESV, and NASB.
I believe God is the loving Creator and Sustainer of all, who made ethnically diverse human beings as male and female in His image, choosing to intentionally create a diverse community of people designed for loving relationships with Him and each other.
I believe we live in a fallen world, separated from God by our sin, and deserving of His wrath, but He chose to extend grace and forgiveness so He could reconcile us to Himself through the Messiah, His one and only Son, Jesus.
I believe Jesus is fully God and fully Man, God in the flesh who died on the cross in our place as an atonement for our sins.
I believe that Jesus will forgive us for our sins when we repent, which means we confess and turn away from our sins.
I believe Jesus rose from the grave three days after dying on the cross and being buried in a tomb, revealed Himself to people in His resurrected body, and promised that those who believed in Him would receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
I believe Jesus is our Living God, who ascended to heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father, to prepare an eternal place for all who believe in Him, and to intercede for us.
I believe in the Second Coming of Jesus, as revealed in Scripture.
I believe in heaven and hell as revealed in Scripture and that all humans will live in eternity after death, either in heaven with our Holy God or in hell forever separated from our Holy God.
I believe we are saved by God’s grace alone, not by our works or status, and that nothing can take our Salvation away when we have received Jesus as our Savior and Lord.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Third Person in the Godhead, who dwells in all believers in Christ. He makes us new creations immediately after we receive Christ and transforms us to be more like Jesus day by day as we surrender to Him and submit to the authority of the unerring and unchanging God-breathed words of Scripture.
I believe we will be tempted by sin and endure trials in this world, but Christ has overcome the world so we will live in victory through all circumstances through Him until He calls us home or comes again.
I believe if we love Jesus we will love Him by obeying His commands, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
I believe in the life-changing power of seeking God daily through the prayerful reading and studying of His Holy Word, through which the Holy Spirit transforms us so we can live holy lives.
Eight Scriptural Truths
1. Our sin separates each of us from the Father, but Jesus is the only way to be reconciled with Him.
“Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you , so that he will not hear.” Isaiah 59:1-2 (NIV)
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.” John 3:16-17 (ESV)
“If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:8-9 (ESV)
“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 (ESV)
2. Jesus understands, and cares about, what we are going through.
“That is why we have a great High Priest who has gone to heaven, Jesus the Son of God. Let us cling to Him and never stop trusting Him. This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for He faced all the same temptations we do, yet He did not sin. So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive His mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it.” Hebrews 4:14-16 (NLT)
3. No one is perfect. That’s why we have a perfect Savior.
“We are made right in God’s sight when we trust in Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in this same way, no matter who we are or what we have done. For all have sinned; all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet now God in His gracious kindness declares us not guilty. He has done this through Christ Jesus, who has freed us by taking away our sins.” Romans 3:22-24 (NLT)
4. We can leave the past behind us, turning away from our sins, and live an abundant life of forgiveness and freedom.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)
5. We can’t earn Salvation, or lose it. God has a plan and you have a purpose in His plan.
“God saved you by His special favor when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things He planned for us long ago.” Ephesians 2:8-10 (NLT)
6.The Holy Spirit empowers us to be holy and live righteous lives.
“Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: ‘Be holy, because I am holy.'” 1 Peter 1:13-16 (NIV)
7. Salvation is available to all who are ready to repent and receive God’s free gift of eternal life.
“That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.” Romans 10:9-10 (NIV)
If you are ready to accept Jesus as your Lord and experience His life-transforming, unconditional love and forgiveness, you can say this prayer with me, right now.
“Jesus, thank You for coming to the world, dying on the cross for my sins, rising three days later, blessing me with the gift of the Holy Spirit who dwells in all believers, and securing my place in eternity with You.
Thanks for assuring me I’m saved by Your grace not by my works. Please forgive me for my sins and help me love You and accept Your perfect love for me.
Please help me believe You, depend on You completely, surrender to You, live in obedience and faith, and grow in the knowledge of Your Word until You come again.
In Jesus’ Name, AMEN”
8. God designed the beautifully diverse and interdependent church to grow together, serve together, and spread His truth and love to the ends of the earth as we live for Him . . . together.
“From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.” Ephesians 4:16 (NIV)
“For you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.” 1 Peter 2:9 (NIV)
If you’ve accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior today, I encourage you to share your decision with a Pastor or Christian friend who can come alongside you with prayer and support.
Please let me know, too.