An exciting, passionate thread of awareness of God's love and presence is woven throughout this author's life story. When did her unique spiritual journey begin? Was its source from imagining levitating from her bed at age three? Peering on tiptoe into her beloved grandmother's coffin at age five? Sitting on her blind grandfather's knee awed by his reading a Braille Bible? Or holding her cousin's dying baby as they were rushed from the crash scene to the hospital? At a very early age this delightful little girl with curly red hair and matching freckles became convinced that God knew her and loved her. However, there was scant evidence of her being special in a busy family with nine children moving from place to place following her dad's passion for the excitement of another oil boom. It is a candid story of a recklessly begun marriage of passion maturing into a solid and enduring love. This same passionate thread is strong, bright, and binding as she follows God's bidding to become a foster parent, yet later watches helplessly in horror as her lovely, virtuous daughter becomes a victim of violent spouse abuse. The reader will find an inspiring journey of growing faith meeting all the challenges life can throw at her, including three bouts with cancer, adopting a troubled teenager, and caring for her aged mother diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Yet that same passionate thread darkens and becomes frayed almost to the breaking point as she describes the "Great Divide." Readers will immediately identify and recall their own "black hole" as she describes an ordeal that left an ugly gaping tear in her heart. Your heart will run, skip, and jump as you relive this redhead's adventurous journey of faith.

An exciting, passionate thread of awareness of God's love and presence is woven throughout this author's life story. When did her unique spiritual journey begin? Was its source from imagining levitating from her bed at age three? Peering on tiptoe into her beloved grandmother's coffin at age five? Sitting on her blind grandfather's knee awed by his reading a Braille Bible? Or holding her cousin's dying baby as they were rushed from the crash scene to the hospital? At a very early age this delightful little girl with curly red hair and matching freckles became convinced that God knew her and loved her. However, there was scant evidence of her being special in a busy family with nine children moving from place to place following her dad's passion for the excitement of another oil boom. It is a candid story of a recklessly begun marriage of passion maturing into a solid and enduring love. This same passionate thread is strong, bright, and binding as she follows God's bidding to become a foster parent, yet later watches helplessly in horror as her lovely, virtuous daughter becomes a victim of violent spouse abuse. The reader will find an inspiring journey of growing faith meeting all the challenges life can throw at her, including three bouts with cancer, adopting a troubled teenager, and caring for her aged mother diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Yet that same passionate thread darkens and becomes frayed almost to the breaking point as she describes the "Great Divide." Readers will immediately identify and recall their own "black hole" as she describes an ordeal that left an ugly gaping tear in her heart. Your heart will run, skip, and jump as you relive this redhead's adventurous journey of faith.