I was Lost, But Now I’m Found… So What’s Your Excuse? By K. Serena Wheeler-Weaver - Is your past ruining your relationship? - Are you struggling with distructive thoughts of suicide? - Have too many memories replaying in your mind? Your dreams? - Are you holding on to a secret that you think no one will understand? - Regretting things you’ve done just to fit in? I’ve discovered that going into your past, helps you find out why you turned out the way that you are today. How you move forward day by day will also determine your future. The great news is you don’t have to be the same way you are today! God gave us free will. That means FREE to CHANGE, FREE to FORGIVE, FREE to MOVE ON, FREE to LET GO, FREE to LOVE and FREE to BE TRULY LOVED BY GOD! “I Was Lost, But Now I’m Found… So What’s Your Excuse” is a compilation of real situations in my life from childhood to adulthood. I am going to tell you some of the good, bad and down right shameful things I’ve done, had done to me and wished I had never been exposed to. This insight into my life as God spoke to me, through me and continues to transform me, will move you from glory to glory as you remove the yoke and the burdens from your past to the great and magnificent future God has for you today!!

In my senior year of high school, my plan for the future was to be a chicken farmer in Arizona. Little did I know that God had a very different plan for my life. Over time, I have come to believe that God orders our steps, through tragedy and triumph, to serve Him as he sees fit." Life can throw many unexpected curve balls our way which affect our outlook on our ability to serve God. God doesn't want us to just survive our personal tragedies, He wants us to thrive under His personal care and direction. Ron Lester had the odds stacked against him. From a very young age he found himself working to help his family survive some very lean times. Because of dyslexia, he had a difficult time learning in school. Later, he found out the reason some things were so difficult for him was that he was gradually going blind. Despite all the obstacles in the way, Ron was able to surrender to God's plans for his life. He went from a farm boy who could barely read to a full-time pastor, eventually earning his doctorate. This is the story of how God directed Ron's steps through many difficult circumstances, showing that the impossible is possible with God's provision and power in our lives. Dr. Lester is a true inspiration to anyone that feel they cannot do what God has called them to do just because they have some kind of disability. God will make a way, as long as they are willing. Dr. Lester is an Associate Pastor in Tucson, AZ. He and his wife, Betty, have 2 boys and 8 grandchildren. Dr. Ron Lester has worn many hats throughout his lifetime as a minister and educator in Oklahoma, California, Arizona, and outside the United States. His life story is a labor of love by which he hopes to encourage readers to fulfill their purposes, no matter the obstacles they face.

Now in paperback, the ingenious illustrated memoir that is widely praised: “Hilarious, hell-raising, and frequently heart-wrenching.” —Booklist “[A] unique tragicomedy of a memoir . . . The author is so likable, even in her darkest hour, that as you applaud her recovery you also realize you’ll miss looking after her.” —Entertainment Weekly (“A” rating) “Compelling reading . . . Becker has turned one person’s experience into a universal story of family, healing, and the return to creativity.” —Library Journal (starred review) “A wonderful book, funny and touching, harrowing and sweet.” —Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird For years Suzy Becker, author of the New York Times bestseller All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat (1.7 million copies in print), literally lived by her wits. Then brain surgery left her temporarily unable to speak, read, or write. I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse? is a story that grapples with the question “What makes me me?” By turns philosophical and whimsical, rivetingly dramatic and unexpectedly light, it is illustrated with drawings, charts, pseudoserious graphs, real EEGs. The result is a book filled with insights into creativity, identity, love, relationships, family, and that intangible something that gives each of us our spark.

Call it a mid-life crisis, but you reach a point where nothing makes sense anymore. Not the goals you set yourself, the years focussed on trying to achieve them, what was let go, what was gained along the way. You look back and think, Is that it? Then you get sick. And everything changes.' This startlingly honest and often hilarious memoir from one of Ireland's best-loved comediennes is told through the lens of cancer treatment and its aftermath. From the moment when she heard but didn't necessarily absorb the shocking diagnosis, through the months that followed, Gildea describes the mixed emotion of the journey, at once swept along on its tide and struggling to grapple with its effects. Through depression, comedy, Catholicism, chemotherapy, the bog, emigration, sex, mastectomy, fear and love, I've Got Cancer, What's Your Excuse? takes a refreshingly irreverent look at life, the stuff it throws at you, and what you do with it, as it ultimately asks: 'Did cancer save me?

Being bridesmaid at her triplet sister’s wedding was the happiest day of Hope’s life—especially as, afterward, she was swept off her feet by gorgeous tycoon Alex Matheson! It seemed Hope would soon follow her sister up the aisle, until Alex became convinced she was playing games with him—that she was having a secret affair. There could be no marriage without trust, but could Hope make Alex believe her innocence?

Nylah Jenkins has loved Darius for as long as she can remember. She’s been by his side through thick and thin, and he’s been by hers, but now as they head toward the altar a second time, doubts about his loyalty start to seep in. Those doubts are compounded when what begins as a friendly reunion with old college friends to an intervention that none of them could’ve seen coming. Meanwhile, it is time for the reunion of five college women who are successful, confident, and most of the time on fire for God. They’re all coming together to celebrate their older friend, 15 years of marriage as she acclaims by renewing her wedding vows. ‘Mama Bear’, a former college R.A, better known as Nylah by her peers, has plans for her friends. She’s determined to find the perfect Godly men for them, but with her meddling, their own desperation to beat their biological clocks, and misguided attempts to get things right, block them from love at every turn. Will lingering doubts from the past, messy friends, and mistrust ruin Nylah’s chance for her renewing of her vows and having a real happily-ever-after with the man of her dreams? Or will love, faith, and prayer prevail for all? Find out what happens in He Who Finds A Wife! keywords: free christian fiction books by black authors, christian books free, christian fiction free, african American, african american romance free, black authors free full books, urban books, urban books free, urban, urban fiction, urban street fiction, urban african american, free book, freebie, free book, free ebook, free, urban books black authors free, african american books free, christian romance fiction books free , african american christian fiction, christian fiction

Long Time, No See is certainly an inspiring story, but Beth Finke does not aim to inspire. Eschewing reassuring platitudes and sensational pleas for sympathy, she charts her struggles with juvenile diabetes, blindness, and a host of other hardships, sharing her feelings of despair and frustration as well as her hard-won triumphs. Rejecting the label “courageous,” she prefers to describe herself using the phrase her mother invoked in times of difficulty: “She did what she had to do.” With unflinching candor and acerbic wit, Finke chronicles the progress of the juvenile diabetes that left her blind at the age of twenty-six as well as the seemingly endless spiral of adversity that followed. First she was forced out of her professional job. Then she bore a multiply handicapped son. But she kept moving forward, confronting marital and financial problems and persevering through a rocky training period with a seeing-eye dog. Finke’s life story and her commanding knowledge of her situation give readers a clear understanding of diabetes, blindness, and the issues faced by parents of children with significant disabilities. Because she has taken care to include accurate medical information as well as personal memoir, Long Time, No See serves as an excellent resource for others in similar situations and for professionals who deal with disabled adults or children.

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About the Book The Blind Side of Racism uncovers truths about racist societies that are unidentified and unacknowledged in many discussions about racial discrimination, so we may learn how not to characterize individuals because of their race. About the Author Gina B. is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. Her family is the most important thing to her.