Product Description

The goal of this book is to offer support and inspiration to hurting people by sharing our family's intimate story of personal trauma and longterm, major illness. I promised God in prayer to chronicle our twenty-year tragedy and survival, in the hope that others might find strength in it to cope with crises in their own lives. My message is, "Don't give up. Seek support from the sterling people you'll find, but surrender the outcome to God's will. And pray for help to remember you did."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1604980 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02
• Released on: 2006-07-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 178 pages

Review
I don't know when anything I have read touched me so deeply. I am overwhelmed by your courage, perseverance, patience. -- Alice Walsh, Staff Writer, The News-Leader

I treasure your book. It is outstanding. You cannot imagine how many times I identified with your feelings and situations. -- Norma Braun

I treasure your book. It is outstanding. You cannot imagine how many times I identified with your feelings and situations. --Norma Braun

If ever a story could inspire rejoicing, this is it. -- Phyllis Harmon

If ever a story could inspire rejoicing, this is it. --Phyllis Harmon

This strong, self-reliant woman turned to the God she had never known, completely and humbly placing herself in His hands. -- Fernandina Beach News-Leader Sept.21 2005

Your book is a work of monumental quality. You walked the tightrope of joy and pain with grace and elegance. -- Ann Williams

Your book is a work of monumental quality. You walked the tightrope of joy and pain with grace and elegance. --Ann Williams

About the Author
Dinny Lawrance, pen name for Deon Lawrance Jaccard, is a published author, previously writing historical surveys. Lawrance is a graduate of Northwestern University. Following graduate studies at the University of Houston, Lawrance spent 33 years working in the education departments of art and history museums and in program development with an historic preservation organization. Before retiring, she spent 12 years applying her teaching creed---Education With Pleasure--to the development of Florida's first spoken history museum. Lawrance lives in Virginia with her husband.

Customer Reviews

A Mother's Love
I love this book. Well written, soulful, and passionate, this is a true story of a beautiful and talented woman and her equally remarkable eldest son as they heroically navigate their way through challenging and devastating family and life dynamics. A love story of the highest order, this is an important chronicle of a young man's shaken world and the love and faith that ultimately bring him back to a second life. This book makes me want to be kind to all those who are lost and scared in the hopes that they,too--just like Dan through the help of his mother--can find their way home, again.

A Family Odyssey
"I Promised God" was a moving and heartfelt journey for me. The author's visually descriptive and intelligent writing style kept me riveted and yearning to experience more of her story.

My partner and I were reading the book at the same time, and for several days it was our main topic of discussion. The book definitely initiated significant inner contemplation as I joined the author and her family in this turbulent, tragic, tender, and inevitably uplifting and soulful tale.