NOT MY WAY
Andrea L.Blair, D.M.H.G, is an author and speaker whose autobiography, NOT MY WAY, takes the reader on her challenging journey as she struggles to overcome the devastation and heartbreak which cancer has caused in her life. Forced to reevaluate her priorities, Andrea searched for and found answers. Her compelling story of courage and faith is an inspiration and invitation to look beyond the perceptible and to believe the impossible.
PREFACE
By The Most Reverend Thomas J. Costello
Auxiliary Bishop of Syracuse
Andrea has a story to tell. It is the story of her very real experience of God. Her heart's desire has been to share that story, but a sense of powerlessness and dependency, of fear and poor self-esteem have until now muted her.
An apparently sound marriage, the joy of motherhood three times over, a good life-all are suddenly shattered, first by devastating illness and then by inexplicable separation and ultimate divorce. It was excruciatingly painful. But in the suffering a new discovery, the actual presence of Jesus.
The instrumentalitity is a prayer group, womend gentle and compassionate, who teach God's goodness and mercy. "I know a lot about God, but I didn't know God" The prayer group did know Him and shared a wondrous awareness of God. "I was in the presence of God, I knew it. God was there with me, really there, a presence so intense and real, a joy so exquisite and profound."
"God seemed to be calling me to a different, deeper level of relationship and I was hungry to go"..."God was more and more real, more and more accessible,"..."God really spoke to me"...I know that I was loved"..."The Creator of the universe was courting me, wooing me. I was in close communion with Him." The common became uncommon. The natural became supernatural.
Andrea's journey to wholeness tells of an ever deepening intimacy with God, a closeness which not infrequently is manifested in tangible ways. So familiar do they become that Andrea is emboldened to ask God for signs even on the physical level, that she might clearly know when God is asking something of her - signs as prosaic as a single rose, a cluster of grapes, off white sheers found at a garage sale. And God responds!
"Writing this book is like heart surgery,"Andrea reveals. “I'm giving those who look a glimpse inside."And inside is conviction:"I am God's child, the Daughter of the Most High God."
"I believe the sharing of my story will encourage others." Andrea is right. Read of how, in their unique relationship, God not only listens to her but hears and really responds and answers!
PREFACE
By The Most Reverend Thomas J. Costello
Auxiliary Bishop of Syracuse
Andrea has a story to tell. It is the story of her very real experience of God. Her heart's desire has been to share that story, but a sense of powerlessness and dependency, of fear and poor self-esteem have until now muted her.
An apparently sound marriage, the joy of motherhood three times over, a good life-all are suddenly shattered, first by devastating illness and then by inexplicable separation and ultimate divorce. It was excruciatingly painful. But in the suffering a new discovery, the actual presence of Jesus.
The instrumentalitity is a prayer group, womend gentle and compassionate, who teach God's goodness and mercy. "I know a lot about God, but I didn't know God" The prayer group did know Him and shared a wondrous awareness of God. "I was in the presence of God, I knew it. God was there with me, really there, a presence so intense and real, a joy so exquisite and profound."
"God seemed to be calling me to a different, deeper level of relationship and I was hungry to go"..."God was more and more real, more and more accessible,"..."God really spoke to me"...I know that I was loved"..."The Creator of the universe was courting me, wooing me. I was in close communion with Him." The common became uncommon. The natural became supernatural.
Andrea's journey to wholeness tells of an ever deepening intimacy with God, a closeness which not infrequently is manifested in tangible ways. So familiar do they become that Andrea is emboldened to ask God for signs even on the physical level, that she might clearly know when God is asking something of her - signs as prosaic as a single rose, a cluster of grapes, off white sheers found at a garage sale. And God responds!
"Writing this book is like heart surgery,"Andrea reveals. “I'm giving those who look a glimpse inside."And inside is conviction:"I am God's child, the Daughter of the Most High God."
"I believe the sharing of my story will encourage others." Andrea is right. Read of how, in their unique relationship, God not only listens to her but hears and really responds and answers!