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    My dear late mother, Norma M. Smith was a giant of a woman of God. The Lord took her into ministry where she became a pastoral counselor, even to the point of counseling pastors. In the course of her ministry, she began to see a pattern of particular people coming to her with the same story: "Norma, I have this friend who has just divulged a very hard story, and I need your help to show me how to help her/him!"

    The subject became predominant: childhood sexual abuse and incest.

    Eventually, Norma formed a group of women who had suffered molestation or incest as children. She developed by the influence of the Holy Spirit, a teaching based on the book of Nehemiah (did you know that "Nehemiah" means "comforter"?), and began to teach a number of lessons about rebuilding one's life, based on the rebuilding of the broken down rubble and burned out gates of the walls of Jerusalem.

    One day her ladies (she also counseled men with the same agonizing stories) came to her and said, "Norma, we want you to write a book about our stories. My father told her that the world needed to know this. So, she consented to write a book a fictional character, Jeanne, based on the very real stories of these women, who comes to her and Norma leads her through Nehemiah's account.

    The book is written initially for the person who is the friend who first hears the terrible story of sexual abuse, for it is most prevalent that a survivor opens up many years later and to a friend and confidant---first. So, we who read it are equipped to help lead our friend to wholeness.

    The book is entitled "Elizabeth's Legacy: Becoming Your Friend's Best Friend...A Guide for Counseling Adult Children: Survivors of Incest and Sexual Abuse. She used the woman, Elizabeth, the cousin of Mary as the model for who we need to be---that dear listening, compassionate friend who can be trusted and confided in with painful secrets, and who is well-equipped by God to lead into healing and wholeness.

    I assisted her by being a pair of eyes among others who helped in the editing of the book, and assisted her in the final polishing, and did the cover art and illustrations.

    Norma did have a website, but it was dismantled after she died in 2004, but I have all the books, about 1000 of them altogether and her dying wish was that I make sure they get into the hands of people who need them. Sometimes I just give them away, and other times I send them to people and they pay the postage. Others, I charge less than half what is the recommended price. The main thing is that this anointed work gets into the hands of those who need it.

    Every single one of those many women and men she has ministered to through the lessons in Nehemiah have been set free and are experiencing wholeness today!

    The only way I can see that one can contact me is through my Facebook account:

    https://www.facebook.com/nancy.smithwilliams.1





    Sorry about the humongous size!

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    Wow, Nancy, your mom sounds amazing!!!

    I live about 3 hours NE of Lacombe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    Wow, Nancy, your mom sounds amazing!!!

    I live about 3 hours NE of Lacombe.
    Oh, yes, she was! Thank you!

    My brother-in-law was the pastor of the Alliance Church in Lacombe. I took my first flight to Calgary to be with mom, who lived with my sister, to do the book polishing. I loved Lacombe! Visited Red Deer, also. Loved it there!

    Then they moved to Windsor, Ontario, which is where she passed on to be with her Lord, in 2004.

    Alberta is a heavenly place. She took me to Jasper Park and Banff, so I could get a feel of what mountains were like for the cover. I took the cover illustration from a lookout point viewing the Seven Sisters (I think!), overlooking the Bow Valley.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lively Stone View Post
    Oh, yes, she was! Thank you!

    My brother-in-law was the pastor of the Alliance Church in Lacombe. I took my first flight to Calgary to be with mom, who lived with my sister, to do the book polishing. I loved Lacombe! Visited Red Deer, also. Loved it there!

    Then they moved to Windsor, Ontario, which is where she passed on to be with her Lord, in 2004.

    Alberta is a heavenly place. She took me to Jasper Park and Banff, so I could get a feel of what mountains were like for the cover. I took the cover illustration from a lookout point viewing the Seven Sisters (I think!), overlooking the Bow Valley.
    My sister & her husband and family moved down to Red Deer over 25 years ago and my daughter has been living there for about 9 years now, so we are regular visitors to the area, and yes, it's really beautiful. Calgary and the foothills, I love as well, and then the Rockies, absolutely and totally "mountain grandeur!!!" Banff and Jasper .... been there many times.

    I think the mountain area, if it contained the word "sisters," is probably the Three Sisters area. I can't say I know of an area with "seven" in the name in the Jasper-Banff area. The Bow River runs through there.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_..._%28Alberta%29

    Although there is this Provincial Protected Area, much farther west and north in BC, I found out through good ol' google.

    http://http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcpa...pgs/seven_sis/

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    https://www.facebook.com/coachryanmiller

    I would love to have you visit, and "like" my FB page. :)

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    "More than Life Coaching...Spirit-filled Ministry!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    My sister & her husband and family moved down to Red Deer over 25 years ago and my daughter has been living there for about 9 years now, so we are regular visitors to the area, and yes, it's really beautiful. Calgary and the foothills, I love as well, and then the Rockies, absolutely and totally "mountain grandeur!!!" Banff and Jasper .... been there many times.

    I think the mountain area, if it contained the word "sisters," is probably the Three Sisters area. I can't say I know of an area with "seven" in the name in the Jasper-Banff area. The Bow River runs through there.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_..._%28Alberta%29

    Although there is this Provincial Protected Area, much farther west and north in BC, I found out through good ol' google.

    http://http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcpa...pgs/seven_sis/

    Yes, it was the Three Sisters! Thank you!

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    ...I can be quite pestering if I have to be. ;)
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    Nooooo!
    I'm an encourager, that's one of my gifts...God's little nudger. ;)


    Quote Originally Posted by Tehilah Ba'Aretz View Post
    I no longer have a website...
    Well bummer...I was really hoping you had one. I wanted to see some sample pics and stories from your tours.

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    https://www.facebook.com/coachryanmiller

    I would love to have you visit, and "like" my FB page. :)

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    Thanks SS, but you have one more. I really like your By His Stripes community page too. :)

    https://www.facebook.com/By-His-Stri...29073/?fref=ts

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    Hi everyone! I'm back after an extra-extra long hiatus, but I don't know how much I'll be around BECAUSE of what's in this post.

    Ken and I have several HUGE things going on right now -

    #1 - we are helping LOTS of people get healthy using essential oils. We've been doing this for almost 2 and a half years and have helped hundreds, plus we're growing an amazing team of people worldwide. It's growing into sustainable income for us (we're about halfway there), and that is going to fund ministry plus a few side projects (see #3). Our websites are http://livingtheessentiallife.com and http://oils-empower.me -- I'd be happy to help anyone experience oils for themselves and do a free wellness consult for you.

    #2 - we are moving to Wilmington NC and starting a church. Working out the details now. Please pray for Ken to get a job quickly - in fact as I type this, he's on a job interview! and for the housing situation to come together. We've found a house that we ADORE and are working to get an offer put in on it, but we need the one we live in to sell plus getting a job offer. It all seems to be coming together!

    #3 - Ken wants to do two things after our oils business becomes our full-time income ... he wants to run a hobby shop specializing in model cars, hot wheels, that sort of thing PLUS be Santa Claus during the Christmas season (one look at him and you can tell, he's the real Santa). He uses it as an evangelism tool. VERY cool.

    Anyways, this keeps us very busy. I'll try to pop in now and then and catch up with y'all!

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