Author: Beth Durkee

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-11-02

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9781517351687

When I was a child, I would sit in the church captivated by the calming resonation of chanted prayers. It provided a great sense of comfort to me-like leafing through a well-read leather-bound book. This was the first inkling I had of the place where my heart belonged-the Catholic Church. As the years passed, no one would have known that my bright childhood would take a turn towards a seemingly dark and isolated future. There were many times when I skirted death-birthing complications and multiple emergency surgeries stemming from malformed blood vessels in my brain. What had saved me at these moments, were miraculous chance happenings that came at times when I prayed the hardest for them. I lost a great many things-my balance, my gift for math and sciences, my visual clarity and my short term memory. It was a heavy burden that I still carry today. Even so, I knew that it was not the end... God must have had other plans for me. I was still here and there was a child that counted on me. I attained a Bachelor's degree in a prestigious Wisconsin university and found myself anew. If there is one thing I believe with conviction, it is that everything happens for a reason and that He has a plan for each and every one of us. Allow me to recount the memory of these miracles with you.