I Want My Darn Skates

I Want My Darn Skates

by Samantha Lewis
I Want My Darn Skates

I Want My Darn Skates

by Samantha Lewis

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Overview

"I Want My Darn Skates," tells about the life of Samantha Lewis from about the age of nine years old throughout her life. God directs her to go back to that point in her life when she began her relationship with Jesus Christ and was introduced to the Word of God. It was also at that point in her life when she really wanted a pair of skates that she worked so hard for but she never got. The story goes from there on through her High School, which she does not graduate from because she marries and becomes pregnant. She enters the United States Air Force and later reenlists. She goes on to become a Commissioned Officer and is retired early from Active Duty because she became disabled. After she and her family returned to Birmingham, Alabama, she eventually gets back to work before having another child. Afterwards, her brother, Josh, moves in on her mother and begins to sell drugs. Samantha knows this brother is selling drugs because she is buying drugs from him. Another brother, Rufus, becomes part of an unsuccessful marriage and ends up on crack cocaine and living on the streets. Samantha is having seizures due to the tremendous amount of stress she is under, which causes her to lose her driver's license, lose her job, and she feels as if she is losing her mind. She doesn't know where to turn. Samantha cries out to God. God tells her that what she is going through sounds like a great story. Without any provocation, God tells her if she writes this story, that He will bless it. Watch God do what He said He would do. "God is not a man that He should lie nor the son of man that He should repent." Watch God do what He said He would do.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781504920902
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Publication date: 08/28/2015
Pages: 228
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

My name is Samantha Lewis and I'm from a poor black family from Birmingham, AL. My book covers my elementary and high school years, which lead to an early marriage and not graduating. I enlisted in the Air Force, my first marriage ended, but I completed college and became a commissioned officer. While stationed at Langley AFB, VA., I remarried and hand a child. I became ill and was diagnosed with sarcoidosis. I became very ill so much that the Air Force retired me. I returned to Alabama and the circumstances began which led to me writing my book. I had my third child but my marriage is falling apart, my mother dies, my family is fighting, two of my brothers die and I end up on cocaine. With nowhere to turn, I turn to God and He tells me that I have a story in me. He tells me if I write it that He will bless it.
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