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    Chiseled: Discover Your True Belonging
    Chiseled: Discover Your True Belonging
    Chiseled: Discover Your True Belonging
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    Chiseled: Discover Your True Belonging

    By Julie Ann Somers

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    Chisel yourself free from harmful strongholds and discover your true belonging!

    With a sense of directness this book will tell of my lifes mishaps, curses and good fortune. And how now with undaunted devotion blessings come more frequently as evil subsides. Hopefully as you read you will be moved in a positive direction that will help you conquer lifes constant battleswithout spending too much time in the self-help section at your local bookstore like I did! You can find strength through all trials and tribulations no matter where you are. Help is within, and by reaching near to Divinity you will undoubtedly come upon it.

    A past coach of mine said: Most of us are psychological basket cases in one form or another. I believe that in a sense. In fact, the sufferings I see among others make me realize how wonderful my life really iswhile another may look at me and say the same. We all have different stories some worse than the next. Whether its your health; lack of discipline, motivation, or job; loss of a loved one; struggle with addiction; a difficult relationshipor maybe you have yet to meet your true love and youre spending life alone; we all suffer in one way or another.

    Delight in knowing that no matter what your situation you can learn to pull through any conditionvast or minusculeby a Divine Power as I have. With strong conviction borne from past and present experiences, I know that God is leading my way. I was led and protected by the Holy Spirit to the point of recognition: once I became aware of His closeness I held on to that. And by will, not force, I have continued to carry and fulfill my soul with the most beautifully awaited kinship imaginable. My decision has left me with more confidence, comfort and joy than I ever dreamed possible.

    I am no religious scholar, and my quest is not to try and reel you into some supernatural cult. I am just another fleshly individual making my way, like you.

    In this book I disclose my ongoing endeavors in the hope of helping you have a better understanding of what it takes to fulfill your spiritual being with such life-changing, glorious power.

    Allow God to form you from the inside out. Grant Him the right to do the molding while He provides you gear to assist Him.

    This book also includes topics on relationships, addiction, and health and fitness!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateFeb 23, 2011
    ISBN9781450256759
    Chiseled: Discover Your True Belonging
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    Julie Ann Somers

    Julie Ann Somers is the author of Chiseled—Discover Your True Belonging. She has an interest in humanitarian aid and is launching a non-profit organization that will help alleviate poverty in the United States, Africa and other nations around the world. Her motto is Get Fit, Have Faith, Love! www.julieannsomers.com

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      Chiseled - Julie Ann Somers

      Copyright © 2010 Julie Ann Somers

      Scripture quotations are based on the New International Version of the Bible, unless otherwise noted.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4502-5673-5 (pbk)

      ISBN: 978-1-4502-5674-2 (cloth)

      ISBN: 978-1-4502-5675-9 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2010913328

      Printed in the United States of America

      iUniverse rev. date: 10/20/10

      Contents

      Introduction

      1 Blossoming Blues

      2 My Farewell

      3 Tried and True

      4 Costly Cuddle

      5 Bunches And Babylove

      6 Deliverance

      7 Hopeful Hearts

      8 Freedom

      9 Sacred Words

      10 Spoken

      11 Shine

      12 Judge Not!

      13 Unmask

      14 Clean And Fit

      15 Paint Me Pink!

      16 Glory To God!

      IN MEMORY OF JACK

      In A Nutshell

      A Place in My Heart

      Introduction

      Chisel yourself free from harmful strongholds and discover your true belonging!

      With a sense of directness, this book will tell of my life’s mishaps, curses and good fortune. And how now, with undaunted devotion, blessings come more frequently as evil subsides. Hopefully as you read, you will be moved in a positive direction that will help you conquer life’s constant battles—without spending too much time in the self-help section at your local bookstore like I did! You can find strength through all trials and tribulations no matter where you are. Help is within, and by reaching near to Divinity you will undoubtedly come upon it.

      A past coach of mine said: Most of us are psychological basket cases in one form or another. I believe that in a sense. In fact, the sufferings I see among others make me realize how wonderful my life really is—while another may look at me and say the same. We all have different stories some worse than the next. Whether it’s your health; lack of discipline, motivation, or job; loss of a loved one; struggle with addiction; a difficult relationship—or maybe you have yet to meet your true love and you’re spending life alone; we all suffer in one way or another.

      Delight in knowing that no matter what your situation, you can learn to pull through any condition—vast or minuscule—by a Divine Power as I have. With strong conviction borne from past and present experiences, I know that God is leading my way. I was led and protected by the Holy Spirit to the point of recognition.Once I became aware of His closeness, I held on to that. And by will, not force, I have continued to carry and fulfill my soul with the most beautifully awaited kinship imaginable. My decision has left me with more confidence, comfort, and joy than I ever dreamed possible.

      I am no religious scholar, and my quest is not to try and reel you into some supernatural cult. I am just another fleshly individual making my way, like you.

      In this book, I disclose my ongoing endeavors in the hope of helping you have a better understanding of what it takes to fulfill your spiritual being with such life-changing, glorious power.

      Allow God to form you from the inside out. Grant Him the right to do the molding while He provides you gear to assist Him.

      1

      Blossoming Blues

      Childhood Struggles

      My ears began to ring from the shock and disbelief as I listened in: He’s dead! I heard my mother’s silent cry as she took the call and soaked in the dreaded news.

      I was totally shaken. The phone slipped from my hand and shattered my bedroom mirror. My distress was enhanced from the unintended blast as sadness poured out and alleviation set in.

      My mind flashed back to the last time I saw my father with the seductive look on his face as he leered at me with that lustful expression. As I walked though the hallway toward my room, he sat in the living room in only his underwear, kicked back in a recliner, inviting me to join him with physical but silent overtones. My heart raced like an accelerated time bomb! I continued into my bedroom, bare feet tapping lightly across the hardwood floor, and without much thought, I grabbed a few belongings and crawled out the window. I never saw my daddy again.

      It was only a few months following this disturbing incident that my father was pulled from a house fire and taken to the hospital, where he passed away. I was barely a teen at the time of his death.

      He had owned a nightclub and was a real estate agent. He had also produced and sold a film about quick change artists and how to detect their motives. On April 17, 1973, he appeared on the Johnny Carson show demonstrating the production. Bob Hope and Karen Valentine were also guest stars on the same show. In 1962, he lost one of his arms on a conveyer belt while

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