Bras begins her memoir as she recalls the crushing pain of seven years of unanswered prayer for a child. God amazingly answers her prayers with a miracle, followed by years of struggle with unimagined difficulties, challenges and heartbreak. She ultimately realizes what God has been trying to teach her, and rediscovers her life as the intricacies of God’s plans reveal themselves, beginning with the survival of her grandparents one hundred years earlier. She then takes the reader back to the small village of Tomarza, Armenia in 1915 to follow the story of her grandfather Arshag and her grandmother Gulle, who survived the death march and life in an orphanage. Ultimately, they marry and immigrate to Wisconsin in 1921. Bras is the first grandchild to be born. The final section of the trilogy follows Bras as she marries and moves to Hawaii, only to return as a divorced mother to teach school in a small town in Wisconsin. As she seeks to understand her life’s purpose, once again God provides her with both protection and direction. Through a series of misadventures, she learns that God’s plan, once released through our surrender, always produces blessings beyond belief!To learn more about the story and its author please visit authorbbras.com
In February 2015, Barbara Bras left a long career in the corporate world to pursue her dream of serving God. Unsure of exactly how to do so, she knew that her first step required sharing the amazing way God blessed her throughout her life. Frustrated with inadequate past attempts to share her life-story, Barbara sought a writing method unencumbered by the obstacles previously encountered.
In March 2015, she attended one of Tom Bird's Writing Seminars and experienced a life-changing event. As she wrote continuously during the three-day seminar, the story of her son's miraculous adoption and the challenging years that followed spilled onto the pages, ultimately leading her to rediscover her very existence. Following her grandparents' remarkable survival and immigration to the US leads Bras to tell the rest of her story, concluding with her search for purpose and true love.
During the months that followed the completion of her memoir, Barbara realized her life's new purpose. Captured by St. Paul in 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Barbara now views her writing as a tribute first to the God who comforts and strengthens all of us in hardships and trials, and second as her mission to encourage others. Her first novel, scheduled for release in early 2016, seeks to inspire and encourage.
She calls Scottsdale, Arizona home, but spends as much time as possible visiting family in Wisconsin.
