Along the Road II Letting Go

By Christian Amour

As a young child most love to hear a fairy tale; You know, the ones that begin with "Once upon a time". The tale greatly suggests doing the Unthinkable or entering the realm of the impossible. It is delightfully similar when someone shares a personal testimony of faith; that same testimony can bring hope to pessimist, joy to the broken hearted, and graciously invoke faith for the skeptic.

"Along the Road II letting go " we will find out what happens after thirteen years of marriage that began with "teenage love" and ended with the unveiling of Five faces of Divorce, a major life experience that undoubtedly navigated in another direction.

What happens, Along the Road ll letting Go ? Where we find yet another personal declaration intended to teach, encourage, and launch a supernatural power to trust in Gods unfailing love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496928320

Christian Amour

A Glimpse of the author Visionary, Entrepreneur, Founder of Reflections the Book Ministry, featuring: “The Five Faces of Divorce for the Christian Woman” her first innovative work.  Aside from writing inspirational literature, she has a new found desire for poetry.  Eleven years recovered from Multiple Sclerosis greatly impacted her faith in God. She is a new member of The Multiple Sclerosis Association of America, MSAA, expecting to become a part of the important mission of improving lives by shedding light to the challenges of the debilitating disease and share her miracle story that will spring optimism and contentment to all.

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Published by AuthorHouse 09/12/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4969-2833-7 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2014915268

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

About The Author

INTRODUCTION

"For it is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces"

(Psalms 119:71-72).

As I sit here listening to the radio, Never Would Have Made It by Marvin Sapp plays; I begin to sing along while immense tears of joy empty the wells of my eyes from the lyrics deeply resonated in my spirit. It’s a wonderful feeling to be able to testify that I did it, that I made it too. I lived through one of life’s most devastating experiences, divorce. Not just divorce in its most simplistic form, but one filled with the effects of poisonous alcoholic behaviors and soul-wrenching emotional abuse. Even though I endured incomparable circumstance, I give thanks. I am thankful to God every day for being with me through it all. I am thankful for the life lessons He allowed me to endure. My experiences have strengthened me and refined my faith for His glory. I was delivered from not just an emotionally abusive marriage, but I was relinquished from the shame of being divorced and freed from the bondage of my personal demons connected to anger, doubt, depression and envy. I profess now that I am walking in forgiveness, humility, and love on the road to truly re-discover my identity.

Now I know and can honestly say my God allowed me to experience all that I did in order to teach me lessons I wouldn’t have learned any other way. But this was just the beginning. I had to learn to embrace my adversities and admit some very hurtful truths. I’m a survivor of domestic violence. I was victim of emotional and physical abuse long before I said I do. And wow that was a difficult pill to swallow. For many years, I maintained that abuse was one of those things that couldn’t happen to me. It was something I would only hear or read about in other people’s lives, not mine. As the realization of my negative truth became clear, I gained comfort in hiding my personal reality in the deepest recesses of my existence. I finally discerned that I had to stop and allow the factuality to flow through my veins like penicillin through an IV.

During this season, I learned a tremendous amount of information about abuse and neglect that enabled me to form more beliefs that I trust most would agree with. Control the catalyst for all abuse, while there are many forms they come in all