LET'S HEAR YOUR STORY

TELL YOUR STORY....
By Adam GlassmanO, The Oprah Magazine | July 15, 2008

"Tell me a story. Tell me your story . Wait—let me get comfortable. Okay, talk to me, tell me who you really are. This is what we feel as we sit down to read a memoir. We have a craving for connection, an urge to share a confidence. We want an insider's glimpse of someone else's life: Not what happened, as memoirist Vivian Gornick puts it, but what the writer makes of what happened. We're not interested in going on "a liar's holiday," poet Mark Doty writes; we want to get to the bottom of things as they were and are. That's why we slurp up memoirs as if they were lattes, while publishing houses scurry to keep up with the demand."

Now is the time. The world is waiting to hear from you. Let us help you tell your story - from developing the idea, and where to start, to editing, formatting.... to publishing. Everyone has something to say, something to share, sharing what you have learned with others and the next generation.

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HIGHER CALLING

Are you seeking God's purposes for your life? Are you at a point where you realize that God is calling you higher in Him? I am a Christian Coach, and I have been a Social Worker, educator, and parental and family advocate for several years. Although I don't have all the answers, I know Someone who does. Join me in this Christian journey reaching higher in the purposes of God. In my practice and in my daily life:

...this one thing I do,

forgetting those things which are behind,

and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

I press toward the mark for the prize of the

high calling of God in Christ Jesus."

Philippians 3:13, 14

As the Apostle states here I am not there yet, but I keep on 'pressing'. As a result, I also want to assist and teach others, and as Jesus instructs in Matthew 28:19, 20 - 'The Great Commission' -

"...and teach all nations,

baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:

and, lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen"

Where I came from -

A little about me - I grew up in a very strict, God fearing, Baptist home, with both parents, and I was the oldest of five. When I went away to college, I literally went wild during the 70's - partying and doing whatever I could, seeking freedom, love, and who I was. I went from questioning my parent's love to questioning the love of God. It took marriage to a mentally and spiritually abusive man to bring me back to seeking God on a level beyond the strict disciplinarian, to a loving God. After the divorce, which was inevitable, God took me through the fire, and showed me who I was in Him, and that was as a strong woman in God, a Daughter of the King.

I am learning that I am complete in Christ Jesus. I do not have a need to reinvent myself any longer. All of the attributes of Christ are at my disposal to make me complete (Charles H. Spurgeon). This was a long and hard process, so I believe that I have been led to help others through this process, with the help of the Holy Spirit, of course.