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In 1970s Cincinnati, Kim's overwhelmed, financially stressed
parents dragged her and her four younger siblings into
swimming-starting with a nearby motel pool-as a way to keep them
occupied and out of their way. When Kim was eleven, they began
leaving the kids at home with a sitter while they traveled the
Midwest, where they sold imported wooden ornaments from their
motorhome. But when Kim's six-year-old brother crashed his new
Cheater Slick bike and the babysitter deserted the children, what
started as an accident became a pattern: Mom and Dad leaving for
weeks at a time and the kids wrestling with life's emergencies on
their own. As Kim coped in the role of fill-in mother while dealing
with the stresses of elite swimming, she struggled to shape her own
life. She eventually found strength, competence and achievement
through swimming-and became the second female swimmer to win a full
ride to the University of Southern California, where she earned two
national titles. Swimming for My Life is a peek into the dark side
of elite swimming as well as a tale of family bonds, reconciling
with the past, and how it is possible to emerge from life's toxic
and lifesaving waters.
Has someone in your life--someone who was supposed to love you and
protect you--did they hurt you instead? Do you ever wonder why
these bad things happened to you? Why would God, who supposedly
loves everyone, put you through such a painful ordeal? Whenever
someone with hurts like yours came to my medical clinic, I asked
myself that question. I thought, how can God's love even begin to
make sense to a person who has no real evidence--no proof that God
cares? And yet I know that God does love you. So I asked God to
show me why he let you suffer so much. This little book contains
the answer I got in response to my prayers. What I discovered may
seem hard to believe. But this is what I found out: your pain--your
personal, individual nightmare--is part of God's plan to save the
world.
This book is a message of hope for people who feel like giving up.
These pages contain real encouragement for anyone who feels like a
loser in the most important game of all, the game of life. Are you
free falling? Have you have jumped out of the plane and discovered
to your horror that you have a defective parachute? Have you looked
in the mirror and found yourself startled by the reflection of a
failure staring back at you? I have good news. Failure is a great
place to start over from Would you like to get to know the Person
who wrote the rules to the game of life? This guide is called, Free
Falling Into the Right Hands because when we land in the right
hands, the hands of our loving Creator, we find the true source of
the happiness we were seeking when we took that daring leap out of
the plane. Don't give up on yourself. It's never too late. You are
not too far gone. No matter who you are, no matter what you have
done, the door to your real home is standing wide open, and Someone
is waiting for you to come home. This book is available for
purchase on line at www.authorhouse.com, www.amazon.com, and
www.barnesandnoble.com.
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