She Calls her Girls- "My Little Miss Entrepreneurs"-
Andrea was pursuing a seemingly perfect life as, wife and mother when her marriage ceased and she embarked the undesired waters of single motherhood. She fought with the passage from wife to single mom of four in her reason; she could no longer be "super mom" or a mentor in the community without a man by her side. Solely thanks to the love and help of her friends and family, Andrea actualized she was false.
Throughout the objections that accompany single motherhood, Andrea learned how to lure in on her inward security and become closer in her connection with God.
From disconcerted ex-wife to stubborn, qualified single mom. She supplies examples from raising children without tight spousal support and direction to single moms feeling powerless.
Andrea graduated in Creative Writing in Literature at Stockton State Pomona in NJ . She has also has an AA. in Social Science Studies and a BA. in Social Science and Sociological Disorders of Minority Children. She went on to serve as full time Youth Director of Atlantic City Youth-Directional Organization where she lives 15 minutes away and enjoys reading, staying active and traveling. Her children are her main priority, and she dedicates much of her time with them.
But what occurs in those humble days is the spirit of Andrea's writings. Whether she's writing about the lumbering days of her teenage years, lunch with a group of women from work or church, they all coincide.
The thing she thought would never happen did - her marriage ended in divorce. By her own admittance, it was a time of posturing in the obscurities' and asking the hard questions of God. Did he still love her? Could he use me and where? In time, the solution came. "Yes, I love you. Yes, I can use you." God recognized even before she did that this would not be the end of Andrea's' story but the beginning of newness and a awakening vision!
"One of the greater belongings I take into my outlook is my glumness," Andrea says. "You hear how to love people when you're broken." In fact, her sadness during that time has helped her do for women with an even greater fervency and acceptance.
"So many women out there are 'just subsistence.' They're minding the calendars, running their homes, keeping up with work loads, and going through the signals, but deep inside there's a picking hollowness. They think, 'If I had a diverse job, lived in a different place, or just get home in time to make dinner, then it would be okay-I wouldn't feel this behavior.' "
Many, many women, she says, think they will not in a million years be pretty enough or adequately desired or have a certain competence for the prince to spin them onto the dance floor at the event. These women merely put on their greater and wait satisfied to lookout from the blade of the dance floor. But our prince, the one who finds us breathtaking, cherisable has something different in mind. He longs for each of us to know that we are distinguished, recognized, and valued. Who is the ultimate of all prince’, God. But far away from the land of fairy tales, many women have trouble making the connection.
"A lot of women have principal knowledge. They know so much. Just in the course of their consistent life (everyday life), women automatically become informative.. They know about change and freedom, but they can't believe it's really true for them," Andrea explains. "Some women are fulfilled to get just enough to make it. But for several senses, can't put on the exercise that goes into that intent place that permits them to abide."
"I know that I know, this is not the life God has planned for us."
In the conclusion, that's what really matters to living a life in impassioned answer to God." "My constant prayer," she says, " is 'Lord, when I am 75, would you renew me to convey to me superb zealousness. Hold me knowing and alarm for the spurring of the Soulful Spirit.
"At the end of my life, I want women to say, I got It!! I got the power!!