I begin to write my story with the ending unknown. All I do know is that I am a child of God, and I win. I am certain that when I am heading to a finish, God will have restored me to victory. It is His promise. It is His job.
I grew up in a very small town in the middle of Nowhere, Louisiana, to a pagan mother and a former-altar-boy-in-the-Catholic-religion father. God did not live in our home, nor was He invited in. My mother was quite abusive, and my father lived in the land of denial. My father’s mom was in love with Jesus, but spoke almost no English, only French. My Irish grandparents adored me, but they were unaware of anything religious.
As a young girl, I heard ghastly stories of my mom and her antics. She had more than likely been the most beautiful woman in her Irish enclave of a village, but she had the soul of the wicked. The stories I heard were beyond frightening.
In her youth, she “worked a spirit table.” This meant that several people would put their hands on the table and ask it questions. Answers came through an alphabet formed by how many times the table would rock or move. Participants even bragged about contacting a deceased spirit and gaining information that, when checked against local city records, turned out to be true.
A Love Story…How God Pursued Me & Found Me..An Impossibly True Story Description:
Samantha’s story is as disturbing and unsettling as it is uplifting and gratifying. It tells about a girl from Nowhere, Louisiana who finds her way from humble beginnings to dining with presidents and living with the rich, only to find her trust betrayed by those she trusted most.
Blessed with an almost unquenchable optimism and a unique sense of humor, Ms. Chandler writes of a life that speaks to those who have encountered abuse, unfairness and anguish. One reviewer declared it, “is as powerful as ‘Letters to God,’ as heart wrenching as ‘Nobody’s Child,’ and as touching as ‘Pay It Forward,’ with Helen Hunt.”
