A Love Story
How God Pursued Me
by Sammie Chandler
Prologue
How God Pursued Me
by Sammie Chandler
Prologue
A Love Story |
I write my story from a place that God took my hand and
led me down a path. I do not regret the horrors I have experienced nor do I want
to do them again. I am profoundly changed by every turn in
the road that I did not choose to go down. I speak of massive acts of unfairness
and perfidy. My writings give great insight and hope to
anyone that has encountered wrongs in life that are out of control. This would
encompass anyone that has ever taken a breath. To all that have encountered
childhood abuse, I give you courage. I pray that all that read this will gain
optimism for their own future. If a skinny girl from Nowhere, Louisiana with
unnerving circumstances and totally stuck on ignorance can rise; then all can
rise.
My background is life. My
qualifications are that I have had more happen to me than Hollywood would ever
think of to write about. If I had not lived it, I would not believe it. I have
been quite poor and only gazed at wealth. I have experienced poverty to the
point of wondering where my next meal would come from. This
has happened in more than one cycle of my life. I also lived
within the walls of the privileged having dined with two United States
presidents, governors in their mansions, and invited to dine with President
Mitterrand at Versailles. I am a voracious reader and cling to self-help books.
I have yet to see one written from the “privileged” world spelling out what
greed is capable of doing. Having run in the circles of the very wealthy, I have
witnessed the destruction of marriages when the wealthy husband does not want to
share the revenues of many years of marriage.
I co-founded a not for profit children’s ministry that
is now international. I have appeared on television and many newspapers have
interviewed me. I have modeled. I have read the Bible eleven
times and with fifteen years of Bible study. Nothing
had prepared me for the life I lived.
Ignorance is fixable; stupidity is terminal.
I was ignorant for much of my life. My narrative has colossal betrayal,
distortion of truth, vulnerability and true love. I started with the challenges
of growing up to a pagan abusive Irish mom that dallied with a spirit table. I
chronicle events showing God’s hand in my life even when I was without a clue
who He was. It is a journey He takes me down many paths and then prepared me for
the fight of my life…marrying a man worth in excess of 100 million dollars and
then to culminate with the annihilation called divorce.
I write of seeing an angel three times, God’s hand
holding mine once, and peering deep into Satan’s eyes filled with fire that was
endless in capacity.
My book is filled with scriptures and God given
promises. God has taken me to the place that if He said it….it is done….the
boldness of David. I have become David bold. I pray with his boldness expecting
no less than what is written in scripture. I have often said if Samantha says
it, then it’s possible to be negotiable but when our Lord says He will….it is
not a suggestion but facts.
I tell of many places where God intervened in miraculous
ways and His relentless pursuit of me. My book comes with a guarantee that the
reader will laugh out loud as well as cry between a verb and a vowel, all coming
from the same sentence. You then will feel happy and grateful you were not
chosen to walk in my shoes.
Samantha
Ryan Chandler
Amazon Best Selling Author
2012 National Indie Excellence
Book Awards - Finalist
Contributing Author: Southern Living Magazine
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