Drinking the Living Water: A View from the Edge
Lessons I Learned on My Way Home
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“If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.” John 7:37
This story chronicles my passage through indecision, doubt, and despair. It is my account of the lessons I learned on my way home about forgiveness, unconditional love, spiritual calling, and obedience. This is my personal testimony about my decision to drink the living waters which resulted in my being renewed spiritually and being made whole again.
Through all my trials and tribulations, I learned of God’s amazing mercy and grace. I renewed my relationship with Him through His son Jesus Christ. My eyes were fully opened to the possibilities of oneness with Christ. From that day of deliverance, the miracles in my life have not ceased.
As you travel with me along the waters edge and as you, too, drink from the living water’s, my wish is that you receive the blessings of hope, peace, and love.
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"On that day, I surrendered my life to Christ. As the tears flowed down my cheeks, all the pain, all the hurt, all of the pinned up anger, and all of the frustration was swept away. My heart that had been burdened was lifted, my head that was bowed so low was raised, and my soul that was enslaved was set free..." Drinking the Living Water: A View from the Edge, is a commanding spiritual autobiography in which Godwin-Starks is taught life''s lessons on forgiveness, health and healing, and eventual wholeness through trials and tribulations. She writes honestly about her childhood growing up in Alabama, her failed marriage, at age twenty, and the move that would take her six hundred miles away from her family. In her deepest moment of depression having lost her brother and two aunts, she seeks God out of desperation. What she found was that he was always with her. However, he was waiting to be invited into her heart. "As you get a glimpse a first taste into her spiritual autobiography you will be amazed, enlightened, and thrilled at her honesty and sometimes-raw emotion. You''ll know as she has known all her life, this is a story that has been waiting for years to be told. When you begin to read her words you will read them over and over again. You will sense God''s powerful hand upon her life always charting her course and direction upward and onward through trials and tribulation to peace and contentment," writes Reverend Lucius H. Pitts. Godwin-Starks is one of the most powerful new voices in the Christian genre. Travel through the life of Deborah Godwin-Starks, as you read Drinking the Living Water: A View from the Edge, a powerful testimony of what God can and will do! At times it is heart-wrenching, but it is a story that had to be told. You will be enlightened, engaged, and empowered. A fresh new voice on the literary scene Godwin-Starks will be a force to be reckoned with. -Delores Thornton, author and talk radio host Upon reading Drinking the Living Water: A View From the Edge It takes courage and strength to write intimately about one''s background. Deborah''s achievements and her faith as documented here result in a strong testimony to how God works in our lives when we open the door: "Knock, and it shall be opened untc you." Her joy in God reinforces her determination to fulfill her dreams. Her confidence in God''s plan for her brings her more abundant life. Deborah''s testimony of faith invites the reader to drink the living water with her. Drinking the Living Water: A View From the Edge assured me that I, too, am in God''s hands. Ruth Tyndali Baker, Playwright
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Drinking the Living Water: A View from the Edge, is the first book in the Christian genre for Deborah Godwin-Starks. However, it is a commanding spiritual autobiography in which she is taught life''s lessons on forgiveness, health and healing, and eventual wholeness through trials and tribulations. She writes honestly about her childhood growing up in Alabama, her failed marriage, at age twenty, and the move that would take her six hundred miles away from her family. In her deepest moment of depression having lost her brother and two aunts, she seeks God out of desperation. What she found was that he was always with her. However, he was waiting to be invited into her heart.
Deborah Godwin-Starks is a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Communication at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne. She is contributor to AM Magazine, a news magazine that airs on WBAA 920AM at Purdue University-West Lafayette, Indiana.
She is the executive director of Quasi, Inc., Stellar Women on the Move®, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to provide quality radio programming for women.
Godwin-Starks can also be heard as a contributor to the local segment of Day to Day, a national news magazine aired on WBOI 89.1 FM, WLYV 1450 AM as well as Channels 10 and 39.
She lives in East Noble County, Indiana with husband John, three dogs and a hundred chickens.