My Long-Awaited Arrival!!

Let’s Make a Difference on October 7th!!

My Dear Friend,

I am pleased to announce that my little ones have arrived! They are safe and sound. Although labor lasted over a year they are beautiful. All 120 of them!!

I am referring, of course to my newest book My Journey from Darkness to Light. As I look at my books with their shiny covers and inviting sunrises my heart cries out “Thank you God. Please help them be a blessing to myself, my family and all those around me.” And my thoughts return to a time many years ago:

Excerpt from My Journey From Darkness to Light:
…I imagined myself sitting in a chair as if I was viewing a video of a past memory. I saw my Father placing His hands upon my head and felt a great love for Him and an immense respect. I could visualize my Heavenly Father saying that I would have experiences on earth that I would need in order to return to Him again. Among the experiences He named was that of depression. When I opened my eyes after the prayer was finished, I could only recall the warmth and love I felt and somehow I knew that I had agreed to go through the depression I was now facing, and I thought I heard my Father’s promise “one day this will be a blessing to you, your family, and all those around you.”
After he finished praying, Dan and I embraced each other and wept. Although I couldn’t tell just how this hellish experience with depression could ever be a blessing, at least now I knew that it wasn’t just a lack of character, a fatal flaw or a terrible imperfection…. It was part of my life’s experience that God somehow meant to use to benefit myself and others.

Please would you help us get this book into the hands and hearts of all those around us.

Amazon lists their books in order of popularity so my book is down the list right now when you look up key words such as “depression and bipolar”. As more people buy My Journey from Darkness to Light, it will rise closer to the top and offer hope to those who need it. We are asking our friends and neighbors to order their books on October 7th so that we come out of the darkness (page 10) and into the light and help others to so as well! For the direct link to Amazon, click HERE.

P.S. My daughter, Heidi, also wrote about my book - check it out at http://www.jhhamiltonhappenings.blogspot.com/.

Can I Hear You Yet?

Dan called this morning when he went to check out my blog. He reminded me of the effort required to get into a blog for the first time.

First of all I want to thank you who have made the time to “hear my voice.” Now I want to hear your voice.

As many of you know, I can only have 100 people visiting my blog because it is an “invited only” site. Therefore, I want to make sure the persons I have invited are visiting me so I’ll have to review who I’m hearing from and who I’m not hearing from every month or so.

So, please make comments as often as possible. Even if you simply say “Hi” or “This helped,” I want to hear YOUR voice.

Thanks, Patricia

Sleepful in Salt Lake

I woke up at 3:00 A.M. and wandered about till 3:45. During this time I thought of a dear friend of mine who is suffering from sleep deprivation. This ailment has made a deep impact on her life and often left her feeling lonely and hopeless. My prayers went out to her in a deeper way this morning.

Finally I crawled back into bed and tried to turn my mind off as my body tossed and turned. Then hoping not to disturb Dan I made my way through the darkness to our bedroom door. I tried not to trip over our dog Divi and headed for the family room couch.

The letters “EFT” kept bouncing in my head. A few days earlier I had watched a video from Maria Andros about how to get ride of a headache using acupuncture points through tapping instead of needles. I tried it and it helped with two of my headaches. As I lay on the couch I wondered if it could help me “microwave” my sleep. Since the technique only took about 3 minutes I decided to pray and asked “Please Father, if it is thy will help this EFT work for my sleep.” Then I used the technique ( see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv8Ki9_Jk-w.)

After the deep sigh suggested by EFT I laid down with a sense of trust and warmed my feet on Divi dog.

The next thing I knew I sat up awake and refreshed at 5:55 and I didn’t feel the way I usually do after loosing sleep! “Thank you Father. Thank you so much” I said glancing upward.

Later in the morning I read a scripture that seemed to fit my experience as well as any trial:

“And when they shall have received this (difficulty), which is expedient that they should have first, to try their faith (so I could move from frustration to acceptance), and if it shall so be that they shall believe these things then shall the greater things be made manifest unto them.” – 3 Nephi 26:9

I’m thankful that my headaches and later my sleeplessness led me to greater knowledge and the ability to help more people. I’m not sure that EFT will work every time but it’s a good thing to have in my bag of tricks labeled “Sleepful in Salt Lake.”