Sweet Melissa

LIFE IS ONE CONTINUOUS LESSON HAVE  FAITH  IN  YOURSELF  AND  NEVER  GIVE  UP  It is funny how things and people EVOLVE.  What we LEARN, and how we learn them.  I can remember, at a very LOW POINT in my life, when my gut would tell me "DON'T DO IT!" but I did not listen.  Instead, I let my CURIOSITY and my ADDICTION get the best of me.  Each and every time without fail I lost "AKA" got tossed into JAIL!  Through many years of trying to break this TERRIBLE pattern of SELF-DESTRUCTION I decided to do the OPPOSITE of everything I had done before.  When I SAY everything, I pretty much mean EVERYTHING.  I had obviously been doing things the WRONG way for many years.  So, CHANGE is what I did!   I STARTED to have FAITH in GOD and in MYSELF.  If I expected anyone else to TRUST, BELIEVE, or have FAITH in me I needed to be sure that I did first.  I began to trust my INSTINCT and my GUT feelings.  I KNEW that what I HAD been doing had been WRONG all along.  I

                           GIVING IT UP TO GOD I USED TO ASK MYSELF, "WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN PEOPLE SAY, GIVE IT UP TO GOD?" So, I asked someone else.  Someone who just might know the answer because it was not me.  I did not know.  I had absolutely no idea what people meant by this.  The funny thing is, when I asked this particular person my question, his answer was my question.  He said, "Just give it up to God."  So, I asked him how and he continued to tell me, "Just give it up to God."  So, here I am left with an answer to my question which in reality was the question itself! I may never get an answer to my question but what I do know is that every single day I ask God for strength.  I ask Him for His forgiveness and love.  I thank Him for what I am today.  I am grateful for the lessons my life has taught me and I pray that my story will help and inspire at least one person.  My life was not easy but it was my choice.  I pray that other's will

                      "The Sweet Melissa Memoir Series"  Book six of "THE SWEET MELISSA MEMOIR SERIES" will be out sometime in September 2017!  GOD WILLING!  That is my personal goal anyway.  I have already designed the cover and I am about a fifth of the way through.  Surprisingly, book six is the most difficult one to write.  The events are current(2004-2011), or should I say more current than the other books, but there are a lot of intimate and painful details and memories.  I have been trying to keep those buried deep in the back of my mind but it is time to release them.     I hope you are enjoying the series so far, and book six will be the final book.  I have plenty of other projects after this!  My writing career is far from over.  It has just begun!   I love to hear feedback and appreciate your reviews.  I was brought to tears the other day when a "mother" of an "addicted daughter" thanked me for writing my story.  She told me t