If I'd Known Then What I Know Now - Softcover

Ferguson, Donna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1887449086 ISBN 13: 9781887449083

Publisher: Lesstrang Pub Group, 2000

Synopsis

This book explains the seasons of a woman's life as a school for eternity and her relationships as the classroom. Donna Ferguson shows us that without an ongoing partnership with the Holy Spirit no woman can expect to fulfill her destiny as co executor of the will of God for humanity or discover the treasure God has for her within these relationships. Balanced between reality and myth, fact and faith, commitment and conscience, the author shows how childhood experiences impact adult relationships and set the stage for the next generation. She writes, "Marriage joins more than a man and a woman. It is the combining of two life dramas, two sets of parents, siblings, and any number of bit players within those dramas. We now have a more complicated drama. As the saying goes, "the plot thickens," and the ones most apt to complicate the new drama are the little boy and girl we used to be, and in many instances, continue to be."

About this title

About the Author

Donna Ferguson, author of The Someday Kid (Harbor House West Publishers) and Your Guide To Child Protection, has testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of women and children and appeared on Larry King and the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Her Child Protection Guide is endorsed and distributed by law enforcement and child protection agencies throughout the U.S. and abroad. She has facilitated support groups for women and men from dysfunctional families, and is President of No Neutral Ground, a Christian Ministry dedicated to helping eliminate the spread of the emotional wounds of the parents onto the next generation, as well as to protect children whose physical and emotional well being are threatened from outside the home.

From the Back Cover

Speaking from her own experience, the author writes, "Becoming a woman is far more complicated that we expected." Then she asks, "Did I have to learn everything the hard way? Do you?"

Among the important topics discussed are:

· It takes more than time to heal a broken heart
· How easy it is to fall in need and mistake it for love
· We don't have to accept the price put on us by others
· Assumptions can be deadly
· Not all angels are interested in our welfare
· A half-truth is still a lie
· What we see is not always what we get
· Perfectionism is not a virtue, but a disease
· Habits are made and broken the same way-by repetition
· We can't judge God's love by our circumstances
· We don't have to go to seminary to understand the Bible

Edition details

• Publisher: Lesstrang Pub Group
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1887449086
• ISBN 13: 9781887449083
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144