Life, It's a Beautiful Thing

By Laura Schaufel

Life, its a Beautiful Thing is Laura Schaufels technique of spreading the love of God. It is her method of expectantly accomplishing a desired aim. Touching lives spiritually is her intent and purpose, promoting faith, hope, and inspiration.

Laura Schaufel is a witness to the power of prayer. She testifies to an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs that happened in 1990, in Folsom, California. This little book is an account of astonishing and noteworthy happenings of an ordinary woman who lives in the knowledge that God has a purpose, a destiny, and a plan for each of us. God has been showing her His plan all of her life through acts and actions that only now does she, to some extent, understand.

As she stood in that cold mechanical hospital room listening to her son fight for just one more breath of air, she prayed to God to let him live. Please return him to me for whatever time I may have, here on earth, she asked. But the plans laid out in heaven for that day called for her son to return home to our Father. Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. (James 4:14 NKJV)

In the midst of deaths storm is when your faith and the presence of the Lord are most needed to provide the strength to persevere. Look and listen to these true stories of God working in His way. Then see how you can reach the point in prayer where you are at ease with the world and can accept all of Gods plans for you as your destiny unfolds.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 7, 2011
• ISBN: 9781463440428

Laura Schaufel

Laura Schaufel, mother of two children, stepmother of four children, and grandmother to fifteen grandchildren is a coal miners daughter. She grew up in Jerome, Pennsylvania, a company town with immigrants from Croatia, Poland, Hungry, Russia and Italy. She remembers the close-knit ethnic character and the towns spirit. She moved with her family to Folsom, California in 1963. After a number of years in private industry, she went to work for the State of California and became the California Department of Transportations expert on the Title VI Program. She played a lead role in developing and implementing non-discrimination guidelines for the state. As a result the Federal Government recognizes California as the leader in Title VI implementation and has used it as a model for other states. She retired from the California Department of Transportation as the Departments Statewide Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program Manager. Currently, she is doing community service work as a trainer in the countys Fit After Fifty Program, providing strengthening, flexibility, balance and cardio exercise for seniors. She also volunteers her time as a docent at the Historical Preston Castle in Ione. She had been thinking for sometime about passing on a legacy to her family. She had already outlined her way to comfort, fullness and security in life, peace, contentment and happiness. The sudden and unexpected death of her son made her realize that she needed to pass on to her family the significance of faith. She is passing on true responses to prayer. She is a witness to God always giving you a response when you pray in faith, but not always giving you what you ask for. She resides in her home on Castle Oaks Golf Course in Ione, California, with her loving husband, Chester (Skip) and her precious dog, Gioia.

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LIFE, It’s a Beautiful Thing

Laura Schaufel

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Contents

I CARRY YOUR HEART WITH ME

AUTHOR’S NOTE

PREFACE

COAL MINERS DAUGHTER

DREAM BABY

MY LITTLE OLD SOUL

MY PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE

MY PREMONITION

OUR SILENT VISITOR

GUARDIAN ANGELS

IT’S A MIRACLE

REMEMBERING

LIFE STORY EPILOGUE

WALKING WITH GOD

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I CARRY YOUR HEART WITH ME

I carry your heart with me; I carry it in my heart. I am never without it; anywhere I go you go, my dear, and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling. I fear no fate for you are my fate, my sweet. I want no world for, beautiful, you are my world, my true, and you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you. Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root, and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life, which grows higher than a soul can hope or mind can hide, and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart; I carry it in my heart. (E. E. Cummings)

In loving memory ofCraig Lee Mull

1959-2010

Life,

It’s a Beautiful Thing

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AUTHOR’S NOTE

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UNTIL THE END OF TIME

Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. (James 4:14 NKJV)

Touching lives spiritually is my intent and purpose for writing this book. Hopefully encouraging prayer and coming to understand in a spiritual sense actual results of calling upon God in faith. This little book was written for you with warmth and friendliness and is dedicated to my son, my Dream Baby. It is my way of spreading the love of God.

My wish for you is that you have enough joy to keep you hopeful, enough trials to keep you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough failures to keep you humble, enough success to keep you enthused, enough friends to give you comfort, enough belief and courage in yourself, your future and your country to cast out hopelessness, enough income to meet your needs, enough strength of mind to make each day a better day than yesterday. (Anonymous)

May you have special thoughts to keep you company, wishes to cheer you, and love to warm you. May God embrace you with comfort in your sorrow and disappointments, and courage in your fears. May He walk through your house and take away all your worries and illnesses; encircling you with healing in the midst of any suffering.

Let not your heart be troubled and live each day as a gift from God; have joy in waking up and lying down, honor and praise God, maintain your health, think positive, be independent and live each day doing some of the things you love to do. Believe, have faith and know that you are loved.

Until the end of time, live every moment, laugh everyday, love beyond words, and take pleasure in your life, it’s a beautiful thing.

Life,

It’s a Beautiful Thing

PREFACE

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The stories you are about to read are true. As you read through these stories I hope that you will relate in a spiritual sense that we all are beloved children of God. God does have a purpose, a plan and a destiny for each of us! He determines who walks into our lives. It is up to us to decide who to let walk away, who to let stay, and who to refuse to let go of. (Anonymous)

The following short stories are in accordance with facts or reality about my life. They are in sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up my existence.

COAL MINERS DAUGHTER

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SiGNiFicANT EMOTIONALLY TRAUMATic impact events are stored in our memory forever, and we have the power or process to recall what has been retained. Like a computer, information is inserted and stored and from which it may be extracted when wanted.

The year is 1938; the place is Jerome, Pennsylvania. It was the end of the season of the sun and the beginning of the season of darkness and cold. The setting is an old company house in a coal mining town. Daddy is frantically chucking wood and coal into the old coal stove trying to keep the house warm. The wind with its musical natural movement of air is whispering through ice crystal covered motionless trees; displaying shadows on the sparkling crystalline snow caps surrounding the old company house.

The sound coming from upstairs is hushed by the strength of the whispering wind.