The Air I Breathe
A Mother’s Struggles
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After one of my hospital visits with my oldest daughter Marilyn, while feeling helpless because of all that I saw, I felt as though I needed to let others know about my experiences, but through all of these experiences I never lost hope in God my Father.
This is a book that parents and grandparents will truly appreciate and it will show that raising children or grandchildren with unconditional love is not an easy road to travel. So take a deep breath and enjoy.
Some might ask was is it love or enabling. What I am writing may not be any different from your experiences or what you know to be true but I felt compelled to write about my experiences as a mother who raised her children and as a grandmother who stepped in and raised her grandchildren with the help of my husband and God our Father.
In order for me to tell this story I will have to reveal a lot of things about my family and situations leading up to Marilyn’s hospital stay as she lay there in a coma, with the machine breathing for her.
Thanks to my husband and son for their help in editing and for believing in this book. Thanks to our daughter Eletrea who was always there lending a hand and giving support to Lee and I and for taking trips with me to visit her sister in the hospital. Thanks to my sisters Brenda and Mary for always calling to check on Marilyn while she was in the hospital and thanks to my baby sister Michelle who would take trips with Lee and I to see about our daughter. To my church family, I thank you for your continued prayers and financial support. To God be the glory for all of the good things that He has done.
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God gives us unconditional love, and so as parents we must learn to give the same unconditional love to our children and grandchildren.
About the Author
I have been in ministry for more than thirty-six years; I was licensed in 1981 as a Christian minister. Raising children is a challenge for anyone, but when one or more of them marches to their own drumbeat it becomes extremely difficult. This is my testimony, but by the grace of God we met the challenge. My husband was in the military for twenty-three years, so we have travelled to and lived in many places; however, we have lived in Chandler, Arizona, since 1990. I have been married to one man for forty-five years. We are those grandparents you hear about who have raised their children and grandchildren. We say God bless you to those other grandparents who are like us.