"There is purpose to everything and to everything a purpose."

For most of my life it was not safe to express any emotion or feeling. I remember, before I could write, laying silently in my little bed thinking and feeling about the happenings in my day. My mind has always been pensive and inquisitive searching for meaning and purpose to why and how come.

How I loved journaling once I learned to write in school! That and reading became escapisms for me from a harsh life. Here I could recount and voice my feelings that had to always be submerged. My journals became records of insight into physical, emotional, and spiritual journeys here on this "testing" planet.

I realized that my tests held wisdom that, if imparted, could possibly help fellow journeyers on this tough planet. A book emerged!

Suppression, subservience, and servitude to an almost honor killing by abusive parents,my young self somehow survived. Where did my resilience and strength come from? Where would I find love when I had been born into a critical and loveless biological family?

Amazingly, the "Universe" continually placed, throughout my earthly life, lovely people in my path to bolster and nurture my hungering need for affection. Though I felt alone,I never was. Always there was guidance and love. I just had to be open to hear and see it.

Neverending trials and challenges should have knocked the wind out of my sails totally and destructively. Parental abuse and disownment, infidelity and divorce, physical and verbal spousal abuse, arsons and car accidents, robberies and injustices all took their emotional toll. Somehow I had been protected from the very worst in each negative occurrence. Truly, I felt I wasn't alone. Windows and doors opened and I just had to conquer fears and bravely walk through. I had to see the blessings, hear and heed my inner guiding voice, and feel the divine love. Perspective and enlightenment was everything!

And so I wrote this book in hopes that my journey would disclose some wisdom and insight to your earthly journey, or at least move you to reflect. Weigh everything that comes in the wind with your own heart and own soul. Know that you are a spark of the divine. So sparkle!