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    Against All Odds
    Against All Odds
    Against All Odds
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    Against All Odds

    By Ethel M. Hill

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    I feel you'll be interested in this book because it is most of all my first after year of going through hard times with doors shut in my face to success but I pressed on through for completion.
    I never thought or considered what I wanted to do in life as a child but grow up and get a good job plus meet the love of my life and become married as I saw mom and dad not married but stuck together in raising me and my brother. I went in and out of schools not satisfied because I felt there was a special calling on me for my life.
    From my mother's womb was Christianity instilled within me down throughout the dispensations of my roots. Therefore, at my adult hood, nothing else was left for me to do my search for the truth about this god I was taught.
    I had a baby girl at seventeen with the dad disowning but I went to become a mother and father with mom and dads help!
    Disappointments, heartaches, heartbreaks were many but I stood up and went on anyhow.
    I got my GED and entered a hometown business college but that was not what I wanted to do in life.
    Down throughout the years, I began to write notes about events that happened to me from day to day, good or bad because in my mind I began to get things tangled up! I was steady and secured because in the arms of the lord but question marks yet remained!
    The stack piled higher and higher from year to year. One day it came to me what about rhymes because I was taking piano lessons. So I began to apply the words in poems lines.

    This is the first book of many as Ive said! So there maybe typo errors but many have to know you really can make through the storm with Jesus as your leader and guide.
    Hold on to your dreams and pursue them to the fullest!
    God bless and keep you in his love not mine because I will fail but Jesus never fails!
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJun 6, 2012
    ISBN9781477224588
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      Against All Odds - Ethel M. Hill

      AuthorHouse™

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

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      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      © 2012 by Ethel M. Hill. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 05/21/2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-0992-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-2458-8 (eBook)

      Library of Congress Control: 2012909400

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      Contents

      THE 23rd PSALM

      HERE I AM, STRAIGHT UP AS CAN BE

      WHAT’S BETWEEN YOUR LEGS YOU

      CAN KEEP THAT

      JESUS IS COMING AGAIN REAL SOON

      YOU’RE HURTING ME DEEPER

      AND DEEPER ALL INSIDE

      WHY IS IT SUCH A BLACK THING?

      LITTLE CHILDREN!

      DON’T MISS THE RAPTURE

      THIS WHOLE THING IS JUST A

      DAMN NIGHTMARE

      LET’S MAKE THIS A MUST

      THEN OUR LOVE WON’T BE SECRET ANYMORE

      PRETTY SOON, I’LL BE THERE

      PAYDAY IS KNOCKING AT YOUR DOOR

      24 PLUS ABOUT JESUS PLUS

      THE GIFT OF LOVE

      THIS YEAR! LET’S TAKE A CHANCE AT CHRISTMAS TIME ROMANCE

      LET CHRISTMAS BEGAN IN EACH DAY

      EVERYDAY IN EACH YEAR IS CHRISTMAS TIME

      I’LL BE ON MY WAY

      I’M LIVING MY LIVE FOR YOU

      CHRISTMAS IS IN YOUR HEART

      MAKE LOVE TO ME JESUS

      I’LL SEE YOU AFTER AWHILE

      HOPING YOU’LL BE HERE AT CHRISTMAS

      YOUR UNDERGROUND BABY LOVE

      I’LL WAIT LONG AS I CAN FOR YOU

      REALLY LOVED YOU DEARLY

      CHRIST ARMS ARE OPENED WIDE

      A PRINCESS FOR SURE AND IN STRIDE

      YOU’RE A REAL TKO

      EVEN IF I’M WRONG I’LL MAKE IT RIGHT

      SAVE ME LORD

      IS THIS A DREAM OR FANTASY

      IF YOU’LL BECOME JUST ALL MINE

      NEVER GIVE IN

      YOU ALWAYS SWEEP ME UP INTO YOUR SHEETS

      YOU’RE THAT SOMEONE SPECIAL

      STOP DELETING OUR FUTURE NOW

      WOO! WOO! BABY I’M ON THE RUN

      IT’S SUCH A WONDERFUL THING TO FALL IN LOVE

      WAIT ON THE LORD AND BE ENCOURAGED

      OVER IN THE NEXT CENTURY

      COMMIT THY WAY UNTO CHRIST

      IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD

      COME PARTY WITH ME THIS CHRISTMAS, FROM BIG DADDY SANTA

      LIFE’S STILL THE SAME—JUST A SILLY GAME

      GO BACK QUICKLY TO THE UPPER ROOM

      LET’S MAKE A CHANGE

      I’M AT YOUR COMMAND

      GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL

      THERE ARE KILLINGS AND MURDERS

      EACH DAY

      IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD

      LOVE’S GONE A T LAST

      I CHOSE TO LET HIM GO

      JUMP! JUMP INTO IT

      GET YOUR OWN PRAISE!

      WAITING ON DELIVERANCE FROM GOD, THE LORD JESUS

      YOUR SECRET LOVE TOO

      LET THE CHAMPAGNE POP!

      BETTER LET ME DO THE LEAD

      BABY, I’M NOT SAYING GOODBYE

      MY COMPUTER GIRL

      IT’S TODAY WHICH SHALL BECOME FINE

      GETTING RELIGION IS A HUMANLY THING TO DO

      DR. FEEL GOOD IS BACK IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

      AT THE TOP STANDIN

      THANK YOU LORD

      OPEN UP WIDE TO ME

      BABE NEVER SAY GOODBYE TO ME

      OBSESSION BUT MESSING WITH THE WRONG ONE

      LET’S HAVE CHURCH

      GUESS I’LL CRACK THE SAFE CODE NOW

      I’M A MULTIMILLIONAIRE MOTHERFUCKER

      PLEASE NEVER COME BACK TO ME

      MY ONE AND ONLY INSPIRATION

      I WANT TO BE TRUE

      I’M GONNA TAKE A STAND

      WHAT A HOLY NIGHT,

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