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Hello and thank you for reading my story. This was a very painful storm in my life and one way I dealt with things was to write. What you are about to read are my raw emotions mixed in with what God was doing in my life as well as what his Word says about different subjects. I love Jesus with all my heart and soul. I try to live everyday by the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Some days, as you will see, I failed and some days I succeed. The beautiful thing is Jesus loves me either way and that is what I hope you find in this book. This book was written as these events unfolded in my life. My prayer is that God blesses you, convicts you, opens your eyes, encourages you to continue as you have if you are chasing him, whatever it is that He needs to do to awaken you and light a fire that burns deep inside you for Him. I do not claim to be an expert, in fact this just started as a way for me to work through my feelings and as I continued God placed it on my heart to expand and share my story with others because what we feel is never isolated. I Corinthians 10:13 says "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.."

This means that God wants us to share our stories and this is how he is leading me to share mine. Before we get started anyone who knows me will know the characters in the book but I have decided to change their names in telling the story. I felt it important to do that mainly for the medical professionals who assisted my mom aka Mrs. Mom. I also felt that, while the people involved, especially my family, were important they are not the focal point of the story. That honor belongs to God. He is the star of this show, and every show that has ever played out. Changing the names was not meant to hurt or upset or disappoint anyone but was done to help tell the story and protect anyone who may not have wanted to be mentioned.