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
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