Deb Copeland

Good Morning...good Night: 99 Days to Your Spiritual Recovery Deb Copeland

¿I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.¿ ~Mother Teresa of Calcutta Why I Wrote This Book and How It Can Help You The expression ¿Where He leads me¿ is not something to which I just pay lip service. It is, in fact, exactly how I live my life, on a daily basis. So far, I am happy to report, the Lord has never led me to the wrong place¿including when he led me to the interior of Russia where I found my adopted daughter Maggie, or when He led me to Guatemala, where I found my wonderful children, Molly and Tate. Even through the diagnosis of a brain tumor, when I literally fell down many times, He always lifted me up. From the beginning to the present, through terrible losses, He has been with me. When I was 14 and my father left my terminally-ill mother and me alone, nobody else was there for me except the Lord. And, over time¿because I was a bit slow to catch on¿His love, support and guidance made all the difference. No matter WHAT life threw at me, no matter how strong the wind force, I was a willow tree, bending but never breaking¿because of Him. Even today there are many obstacles and disappointments, but as I have come realize, I may not know what the future holds, but I do know who holds my future. As I also came to recognize, and accept, on a soul-deep level, life is always going to throw challenges at us. No one is immune. You may be a billionaire with all the toys¿a yacht, a personal airplane, servants galore and homes around the globe¿it doesn¿t matter, life is too big a force, and you are not immune. You may be at the other extreme economically, penniless, even homeless. Your life may be one long challenge, but you can still turn it around. You can still find happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment, and success. The difference is attitude. And that is where this book comes in. In 2006, I wrote my book, Attitude Therapy. In it I told my story, and that of several others, in great detail, including my philoso