My Journey--My Cross
As the Journals End
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Introduction
You love your spouse dearly, but there are times you hate what they do and are truly infuriated over their words or actions. “God,” you scream: “what ever is wrong with him?” Then you wonder “whatever did God do to you, putting this person in your life?”
You don’t know how much longer you can take it. Most don’t and walk out. But you do love this person, and again cry out, “Why don’t you do something God? Do something about him!! Change him, change him like you did St. Paul!!” The reply He gave when I wanted God to change my husband?
“I will, I will change you.”
Did you ever stop talking to God, because the answer didn’t suit you? I even made a face, for that was not the answer that I wanted. “I will change you.”
If you have had these thoughts and feelings, perhaps you have been led to read this book. This book has been a long time in coming, written over the past years of life from all of life. Even before we are born, our story was started in the mind of our Creator. In other words, God went to a lot of trouble to ‘beget us,’ and bring us to where we are. Coming into this world, we will wonder, “Who am I and why am I?” “Where am I going, and to whom to I belong?”
As the years progress, we will also add on to that list of questions, “What is wrong with me and why do I do what I do?” Sooner than later will come the “Why don’t you like me, or why do you hurt me, and why am I not loved, appreciated or accepted?”
It is my hope, my prayer that you will find in these pages your story written too, and perhaps learn from my life the answers to those questions that burn inside your soul. As you read, you will find wisdom to help you as you travel in life. May you also walk into the wellness, peace and happiness that we have as we continued our journey.
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About the Book
With retirement about to begin and RV traveling planned, author Beth Ana is dealing with sadness that sometimes overwhelms her. She wonders why. “What is wrong with me? I should be so excited and eager for this life to start!” The inner voice of God that has led her for over forty-five years leads her now to return to the journals that were written over her married life. She is impressed with the knowledge that there is where she will find the answers and the help needed to bring her joy back. Not only is she to go back to the past, God also tells her to write the story about this journey. She rebels at that notion, for it means revisiting past hurts and struggles—and who wants to go back there. Plus, she wonders, “Just who would be interested in my life story?” God’s reply—“Read the journals.”
To her surprise, as she begins to start the journey back, she finds that indeed the roots causing her sadness are still buried within. To her added surprise, as she begins her RV travels, the entries of the past connect to the events occurring now, and God uses all to answer a prayer cried out two years into her marriage: “Do something about him; change him, change him like you did St. Paul.”
God works in wondrous mysterious ways, and just how He changes Beth’s life and marriage is—well, that is part of your “journey” as you read My Journey--My Cross.
About the Author
Like you, Beth Ana is an ordinary, extraordinary person. She has been given songs to sing and stories to share. Her journey includes marriage, motherhood, and nursing for forty years. As she was searching for answers to life’s struggles, the Holy Spirit led her to a great wisdom from all of life, the potter’s wheel.