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    Experiencing the Goodness of God
    Experiencing the Goodness of God
    Experiencing the Goodness of God
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    Experiencing the Goodness of God

    By Virginia A. Romer

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    Do you have personal goals in mind and see your present situation as a hindrance to achieving them? Are you struggling with finances, relationships and forgiveness? Faith and trust in God may be the answer to your concerns.


    At the completion of high school, it was my dream to attend college. Having no money, I realized that I had to do something to make my dream a reality. In this book, I share how I made a start toward achieving my first dream by getting a job and then watching numerous doors open. Learn from my personal experiences the goodness of God and how He saved me from death and opened doors, enabling a single mother to obtain a college education and provide for her son.


    It is my hope that the readers, particularly adolescents, will find this book useful in dealing with life's problems and issues, and realize the importance of perseverance while allowing God to work things out in their lives. As for adults, I hope they will be strengthened in their determination, focus, fortitude, understanding and forgiveness, and learn to lean on God to help them through the hard times.


    Virginia Romer, PhD

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateNov 12, 2010
    ISBN9781452087733
    Experiencing the Goodness of God
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    Virginia A. Romer

    Virginia Romer, PhD is an educator of twenty-five years with the Bahamian Public Educational System, where she presently serves as a high school principal on the island of San Salvador. She has had the opportunity to work with students of varying backgrounds and have shared her experience of coming from a poor family to encourage them not to give up on the goals they have set. Her words to her former school's graduating class of 2009 under the theme “Dream the Impossible, Achieve the Unattainable” resulted in many adults present thanking her for encouraging them (as adults) not to give up on their dream no matter how long it may take. In her speech she shared her long but successful journey of eighteen years from high school diploma to a Doctorate Degree, which she attributed to the goodness of God. A devoted Seventh-day Adventist, Virginia having had a near death experience, acknowledges that her speared life and successes are due to the relationship and trust she has in God. This first time author shares simple everyday occurrences in the life of a simple ordinary person - herself. Through this book she shares God's goodness displayed in her personal life in the hopes that the readers would embrace and allow Him to work His goodness in theirs.

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      Experiencing the Goodness of God - Virginia A. Romer

      Contents

      Introduction

      A Humble Beginning

      Opening of Doors

      Speared Life

      Forgiveness

      Ongoing Goals

      Making ends met

      Ongoing blessings

      Foreword

      Dr. Leonard Johnson, author of A – Z Inspirational Sayings and President of the Bahamas Conference of Seventh-day Adventist saw the book as one that would grab the reader’s attention.

      In his words, "It is my pleasure to commend this short but touching account of one I have known most of my Adventist Church life as we belong to the same home church in Nassau, Bahamas –Johnson Park Seventh-day Adventist Church.

      In my opinion, this work is a real, intriguing and relevant story about Ginny’s life (Ginny is the way we her friends referred to her), written in a simple, candid and true-to-life style. Accordingly, it is bound to have an appeal to both adolescents and parents. Teenagers will find this book useful in dealing with some of life’s problems and issues -be they the question of college studies, social relationships, financial responsibility and ultimate trust in God.

      As for parents, they no doubt will see the need for understanding and forgiveness the way Christ does though hard at times.

      I warn however, that once you begin reading this book you will find it difficult to put it down as it has a sense of suspense following each chapter leading one to the final chapter desiring to know the outcome or summary. Don’t cheat by fast forwarding to the end instead enjoy each line, page and chapter of God speaking, intervening and blessing Ginny time and time again. Thereby, you will accord Him the privilege of blessing you through her experiences.

      Essentially, I regard this account of Ginny’s life as part one or incomplete believing that God is not finished with blessing her. I hope we will get a part two in what I believe could be a series of sort."

      Introduction

      The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.

      - Norbet Platt

      When we come into this world, we do so not knowing what lies ahead for us. As life unfolds, we may find ourselves opening the right doors as well as the wrong ones. When we find ourselves in problems, we often ask ‘Lord, why me?’ We often forget that the Lord allows us to experience good and bad as a means of growth and helping us to realize that he is in control; something of which we need to be reminded once in a while.

      No different from anyone else, my life has been one of good and bad experiences. Yet, as I reflect on my years, there is no doubt in my mind that God has been the play writer and director of my life. He has allowed things to happen that would help me grow both emotionally and spiritually.

      From time to time during conversation, I have mentioned an event or two which occurred in my life, usually as a means of encouraging others. Surprisingly, the more I shared, the more persons would say to me that I need to write a book and share my experiences. I have always and still view myself as an ordinary person whose experiences were not unique, and I believe that many persons would be able to identify with. Sharing my life through prose was never something I had thought about doing, but since in Bahamian term the comment became a scorched record, I decided to respond to the suggestion – hence this writing.

      In this book, I will share with you ‘The Goodness of God’ played out in my life. It is my hope that you will be inspired not only to go after your personal dreams, but to allow God to lead in all areas of your life. You would not regret it.

      Acknowledgments

      The idea of writing a book came from friends who upon hearing of how God had been good to me in so many ways, thought I should put pen to paper

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