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    Rosebud Blooming: Hurting to Healing in His Timing
    Rosebud Blooming: Hurting to Healing in His Timing
    Rosebud Blooming: Hurting to Healing in His Timing
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    Rosebud Blooming: Hurting to Healing in His Timing

    By Nancy Maggio

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    Life can be full of difficult seasons that test your faith. No matter how long or painful your journey might be, you can find encouragement and grace to continue on, growing from these difficult seasons.

    Instead of keeping the pain hidden, you will benefit by sharing the journey of this rosebud through that pain and growth, encouraging you with comfort and renewed faith.

    Come along with Nancy Maggio as she shares the sin and fear she lived with in search of God to rescue her. As she exposes her hurts, personal habits, and broken relationships, you will see first hand the healings. Through Gods abiding love, this rosebud is blooming.

    Nancy Maggio is an amazing woman with an amazing story! These poems and short narratives are so uplifting. Inspired by her own life journey, Nancy beautifully reveals a God who is always walking with us, in the darkest of times and in the best of times.

    Bayless & Janet Conley
    Senior Pastors
    Cottonwood Church, Los Alamitos, California

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateApr 19, 2011
    ISBN9781449715434
    Rosebud Blooming: Hurting to Healing in His Timing
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    Nancy Maggio

    Nancy Maggio is an accomplished speaker, teacher, writer, and musician. A native Californian, Nancy received her AA from Pasadena City College and her teaching credential from Long Beach City College. She spent thirty-eight years with Sweet Adelines International, teaching, coaching, singing, and competing with award-winning choruses and quartets. It was the death of her father in 1979 that brought Nancy to the saving grace as a believer and follower of Jesus Christ. Years of spiritual growth, forgiveness, healings, and recovery have enriched her life since that time. Nancy began writing in 2000. Her poetry began as praise songs in 2004, and soon grew to inspired words from sermons and life lessons.

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      I read Rosebud Blooming, in exchange for honest review from BookSneeze.The book was written by Nancy Maggio and published by WestBow Press.I used Reader for PC to read the book and I admit I did not like the panel format, but I loved the book. The book discusses moving forward, even when life has challenges. We need to find ways to move past the pain and depend more on God, during the good times and bad times.I am not a perfect Christian. I have made plenty of mistakes. Some of my issues, I had to truly rely on God because I could not trust people. As we rely on God, we mature and blossom into more beautiful human beings.The book presents stories and poems. The first poem was simply beautiful. It was entitled Unfolding this rosebud. The poem was saying the author was a rosebud, who could not grow because she was in so much pain. Her heart was hurting. She needed God to help unfold the rosebud and to help her grow, otherwise she would wither away and die. Seeking God and maintaining a relationship will also require maturity, wisdom, and and trust.The other stories and poems have a reoccurring theme of listening and depending on God. One of the first stories discusses hearing a voice in the woods, and thinking it was grandma. Nancy and her brother heard the voice and ran towards it because her brother was hurt. The voice was God because their grandma did not know the kids were missing. Another good story involved an unplanned pregnancy and the boyfriend wanted an abortion; child molestation; single parenting; child illness; depression, and addictionThe book, discusses finding freedom in letting the past go. We have to free those old skeletons in the closet and give God the burdens, worry, and baggage. Let God handle our problems. I really enjoyed reading this book. I did identify with some of the author's stories and poems, especially on single parenting,, depression, and addiction.

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    Rosebud Blooming - Nancy Maggio

    Contents

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    Introduction

    Unfolding this Rosebud

    Voice in the Valley

    Skeletons in the Closet

    Wounded, Rescued, and Saved

    Betrayal–the Poem

    Betrayal–the Story

    A Cracked Pot

    Second Chances

    A Powerful Ally

    Close Encounters of the Same Kind

    The Addict

    Out of Darkness

    Suffering

    Endurance and Faith

    Faith, the Simple Truth

    Agony toward Victory

    God of Our Trouble

    My Rescue Angel

    We All Need Help

    I Believe

    Finding Joy in the Day

    Hope Again

    Conclusion

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    I would be a lost and lonely soul without the unfailing love, dedication, and friendship of my dear friend Pat, and abounding gratitude to my buddy Jeff for the countless hours of encouragement, e-mails, and support. To these two special people and the many other friends who have lifted me in prayer and offered their support I will be forever grateful.

    It is through the grace of God and the many gifts He has bestowed on me that these stories and poems have been written and the healings have changed my life forever.

    Introduction

    IN THE BEGINNING

    When I was hurting, I started writing. In the process, I found healing.

    As stories from my past unfolded from my head and heart, revelation and truth came alive. When God directed me to write poetry, I couldn’t type fast enough. From that came the joy of writing about everything: the weather, the seasons, my family, my friends, the pastor’s sermons. Continually exposing my hurts, personal habits, and broken relationships has brought more healing. Through God’s abiding love, this rosebud is blooming.

    I have tried to present the stories in the order they occurred, but that was sometimes difficult, as they often intertwined. I know without a doubt there is a God, because I heard His voice in the valley. I pray that as you read my stories, you will hear His voice in your valleys as well.

    The blossoming journey never stops. There seems to always be something new lurking in the shadows of my heart, just waiting to explode on paper and open another petal.

    The following poem was my inspiration for the title of this book. It truly exemplifies how I feel about my life and how through God, I have been able to unfold the many petals of my rosebud.

    As a child of God I have the wonder of His touch, knowing I have been made in His image and likeness. How I use that influence is frequently a mystery and a challenge.

    Often He allows trials to happen so that we can rely on Him to grow, mature and blossom.

    Unfolding this Rosebud

    UNFOLDING THIS ROSEBUD

    I am merely a tiny rosebud,

    A flower that God has designed.

    But I find I can’t unfold the petals

    With this hurting heart of mine.

    The secret to unfolding flowers

    Is a mystery to one such as I.

    It is God who opens this rosebud,

    For in my own hands the petals die.

    If I cannot unfold this rosebud,

    The flower that God has designed,

    Then how can I have wisdom

    To unfold this life of mine?

    So I’ll trust in Him for the leading,

    For each moment of every day.

    I will look to Him for guidance

    Each step I take along the way.

    The road that lies before me

    Only my heavenly Father knows.

    I’ll trust Him to unfold each petal,

    As His works unfold this rose.

    Voice in the Valley

    VOICE IN THE VALLEY

    Keeping up with my older brother, Fred, was never easy. But I would not let him leave me behind, especially during the two weeks each summer we spent with our grandmother in the San Bernardino Mountains. Whatever Fred did—horseback riding, swimming, or chasing squirrels in the woods—I was close behind.

    Early one morning, he decided to go for a hike. Wait for me, I said, kicking off the blankets and jumping out of bed.

    Quietly, so as not to wake Grandmother, we slipped outside. The sun was just coming up over the mountains as we started down the trail, our sneakers

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