Giraffidil

By Kate Miller-Beckwith

This book is basically a journey from nothingness, to becoming a happy and caring person who trusts the Lord’s plans. This will show you how to live and be Joyful and Free. It is a short story, but I hope that it inspires others see that truly there can be a new and wonderful life ahead of you. For any questions my email is: [e-mail]

I wrote this book to help people have a new real free life. It’s kind of about me(although i didn’t go into a coma), and then about a future. I always felt like a nothing I didn’t have many friends even through high school but I did love my dogs and bunnies and all animals. I wanted to write a book about a nothing person who actually becomes a giraffe a dil. You might think she is weird—I guess I thought of that because I love giraffes and daffodils... Basically about going from nothingness to a happy person, and has some information about Jesus, because He can get us out of worry and anxiety, pity parties and then be joyful and calm with all people. My desire was to write this book and to let you know YOU all can have a free, calm, and joyful life. Yes really!

So I hope reading this book will encourage you to have a positive life or help someone else who’s having problems. Thank you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Aug 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781728368481

Kate Miller-Beckwith

My name is Kate Miller Beckwith. I grew up in Orange County, California. I have been a Dental Assistant, and a stay at home mom as well as a salesperson. My wonderful Christian, husband passed away 4 years ago years ago, and my loving daughter brought me out to Las Vegas to live with her and my granddaughter. This is a blessing, so I didn’t have to be alone. It was sad losing my husband, but knowing he is in Heaven with Jesus kept me living each day. The Lord led me into a gospel-believing church, and now I have a lot of loving Christian friends. Then one day I became a volunteer at a large animal shelter in Las Vegas, and that is so great, And everyone liked that I was volunteering at the Animal shelter . I always was a nothing, until I met my husband and we clicked!! He led me to the Lord, then my life turned out differently — calm and fun — and became one with the Christian family. I always loved animals, and I really loved Giraffes and Daffodils. One day it came into my head and heart to kind of share my story of going from nothingness, living in pity parties, to becoming a liked happy person. You don’t have to look like a movie star to be liked.

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Published by AuthorHouse 08/07/2020

ISBN: 978-1-7283-6849-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-6850-4 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-6848-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020913644

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Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

This is the story of Elsie…

You might think it’s kind of weird, but I promise it’s worth sharing.

I always felt like a nothing, lonely, not many friends. I was negative and depressed, grieving, jealous, envious, felt uncared about. I lived many days in a pity party.

I knew my parents loved me, but they had their own lives. In my younger years, like before ten, they were there for me. But as I grew into my teen years, I felt more alone.

I had been to church, but I did not have a close relationship with the Lord. Sometimes, though, He would talk to me and tell me He wanted me out of my negative cage, but it was my choice.

This is a story to help anyone, male or female, young or old, who are in a negative cage, to get out of the pity party life. A story about Elsie and how she escaped her negative cage into a joyous, loving calmness and free life.

God had a plan for Elsie—it may be a tad weird, but it worked for Elsie

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Chapter 1

Growing up, I did not have many friends. I walked to school and back with a few kids, but once we got there, they would go off to be with their own friends. My best friends were my pets. My dog, Shep, my rabbit, Jack, my Banty chicken, Daffodil—I named her that because I love daffodils.

I did have a fun adventure in eighth grade, during a class outing. It came with a 2-3-hour bus ride to the San Diego Zoo. My Mother came with other helpers and thirty-plus kids. Seeing all the Zoo wildlife was amazing. The giraffes were love at first sight. They were so different from the other animals, everybody seemed to really like them. That was the best outing of my youth.

For the most part, I was a small, short, skinny girl who felt like nothing. I wouldn’t raise my hand in class. My arms were so skinny it embarrassed me. The extreme skinniness I did myself. I wasn’t interested in food. The only thing I had power over was what I ate, so I didn’t eat much, because that was my power—dumb, I know.

I got used to being alone. I liked to ride my bike, take hikes, go to the library. Things you could do alone. The library was especially great. I loved to read and learn, and, in the library, everyone has to be quiet. So, for someone like me who didn’t have friends and was used to being quiet, I looked normal there. And that’s all I really wanted, for everyone to see me as normal.

Reading books at the library was a great way to spend my Saturdays. Books put me in a whole new world. Inside their covers, I traveled to different places around the world, like walking around the beach in Hawaii, or traveling all around Italy. I visited Africa and saw all the beautiful land and wildlife. I was always in another world, being another person inside those books, getting a chance to experience a new life.

Sometimes I would be a Nurse, or Lawyer. But the real dream in my heart was to open an Animal Shelter and help lost pets get adopted and find real, loving homes.

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Chapter 2

I graduated from high school—finally. Right after that my parents divorced. They said they were moving away to have their own lives. Okay, great! Now I really was alone.

Before they moved, they did help me. My Dad knew a manager at a telemarketing company, and he got me hired.

My Mother and Dad got me a car, and even paid the first six months of insurance. They found me an apartment and paid the first month’s rent. I had never had them do so much for me. Once moved in, I gave them a hug. They told me goodbye—good luck on your new life. I told them the same thing, finding their last efforts to be really sweet and caring.

The apartment already had basic furniture, so I had all I really needed. I felt so excited. I had a whole new life, a job, a car and an apartment. Wow!

Two days later, I started my new career as a telemarketer. It was mostly just calling people to sell them stuff. Sometimes I did surveys, but I was learning something new! Feeling good, I looked around at all the people that were here, just on the phone from nine to five. After a week, I’d learned the whole job so no one was there to train me or talk to me.

It was just all day on the Phone. I did have a lunchtime, and I used the restroom when I needed to—that gave me a break from the calls. Yeah, I never saw it as a career, just a job. I got paid enough to pay my rent, car insurance, gasoline and food so that was good.

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Chapter 3

Four years later, I am twenty-two years old. Same schedule every day and still no friends, but of course I’m used to that kind of life so it’s comfortable. I would…

#1—have breakfast

#2—go to work

#3—have lunch at work

#4—come home

#5—eat my frozen TV dinner

#6—watch TV

#7—go to bed

#8—wake up in the morning and repeat…

However, every other Saturday I had fun. I went to this nice laundromat located in an outdoor mall. There were trees all around and people shopping. Others wandered around with friends and pets, but just by being there, it was easy to pretend I was part of the group.

Looking out the laundromat’s windows, my mind wandered to a book I read when I was a teenager. I don’t remember the name of the book or what the actual story was, but there was this part in the story…

A young lady rode around the streets of Italy on a bicycle, through small towns with lots of trees and flowers all over. It always struck me as such a