Abundant Faith
Secrets to Plenty
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Take a walk with me as I travel up and down the highways of life and explore the avenues of faith. I will cross bridges of hope, bypass corners of conflict, make right turns on trust, stop at waiting red lights, and find that the streets of forgiveness and love run parallel. I found a great resting place on Hospitality Boulevard at Family Circle on the cul-de-sac of joy. I see the hills and wayward bumpy curves with welcome smiles of friendship. Finally, I am back home, but the journey continues. God’s fortune of opulent avenues never ended.
A peaceful stroll helps one to think clearly and eases the mind with grateful praise. I began taking you on a short walk through my life by sharing memories of ordinary times that prepared me for this journey. It is fitting to let you know of my humble beginnings and movements during school integration. The gratitude for how it unfolds will be everlasting in my soul.
Life in this world goes through cycles. Lives are changed by constant reminders of lingering hatred, inequity, and unfairness. Answers to decades of unhealed wounds remain a mystery. I travel through time and visit landmarks of history in an era of desegregation. I was the first African American student to graduate from a high school during the civil rights movement. My faith brought comfort to my pain as I tried to overcome discrimination. I began to understand the nature of forgiveness. Embrace reading, reflect on your feelings, and reminisce about the first steps you took in faith.
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Gloria Sloan’s ABUNDANT Faith is a genuine inspiration. She exquisitely tells about her own faith-filled journey with divine gratitude. She structures her book with personal events, biblical references and insights that encourage the reader to reflect on their own journey through faith. A great book to read individually, with your spouse or as a book-club study guide designed in such a way to keep you energized with daily reflections and motivated with questions to explore.”
—Carolyn Lepore, educator
“ABUNDANT Faith is a book that will make you trust God more deeply and bring rich enlightenment and understanding of the journeys-of fellow pilgrims.”
—Kenneth H. Hill, pastor, author, and educator in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Gloria knows all too well that suffering comes to everyone at the most unexpected times. In this beautifully written book you will clearly see how she wants us all to experience the miraculous healing balm that comes from having Abundant Faith. Whatever you’re going through right now, she will meet you there with her stories, deepen your faith through her experience so that you too can understand that Peace of God that surpasses all understanding.”
—Kelly Bouchard, success strategist, motivational speaker and coach
“Abundant Faith presents an inspiring conversation, especially for those of us who have cared for a sick child, relative, or friend. The byproduct of such a commitment is our own faith development and spiritual formation.”
—James M. Harrison, executive minister, American Baptist Churches of the South
About the Author
GLORIA SLOAN is founder and president of Personal Dynamics, Inc., a global hospitality consulting firm. A graduate of Ophelia Devore in New York City, she is styled in etiquette essentials and life-skills training, and she brings forty years of business management finesse in meeting and event planning to her writing. Gloria enjoys, reading, taking walks, Pilates, arts, and music; she and her husband, Jerry, live in Matthews, North Carolina.