GOD IS IN THE JOURNEY
“Life is a journey – we start at the beginning and stop at the end –
without God, the journey is empty, fraught with danger,
and when it’s over – it’s over.”
This quote is the beginning of “God is in the Journey,” a prequel to my memoir, “Lady Father.”
| Over 77 years, I learned the following truth: “Life is a journey – we start at the beginning and stop at the end. Without God, the journey is empty, fraught with danger, and when it’s over, it’s over.” After more than 40 years, I learned that I had been journeying with God all my life and just didn’t know it. After writing my memoir, Lady Father, I began to realize that all that happened to me in my life and ministry had roots back in the days when I just merrily lived my life without knowing much about God and certainly not knowing God. I finally decided it was time to explore where my faith came from and why it was so dormant for so long. That’s when “God is in the Journey” was born. It traces my life from 1947, through the 50’s and 60’s when I lived a good Christian life with my family, but it was a “Christian life” only in appearance because I had no idea what being a Christian meant. It’s a delightful and insightful journey into my early years as an anonymous Christian, unknowingly blossoming into God’s ordained servant, thankful that my life had not been without God. God had definitely been in my journey.Here’s an author bio: Susan Bowman was born and raised in Petersburg, Virginia, graduated from the College of William & Mary in 1969, got married and proceeded to work at everything but what she majored in – Philosophy. She worked for the City of Petersburg for almost eight years before answering a call to ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church and receiving a Masters of Divinity Degree in 1984 from the University of the South’s School of Theology in Sewanee, TN.Following her ordination, Susan served as a chaplain and then pastored three churches in Virginia and New York before semi-retiring in 2007 when she became Pastor-on-loan to a small Methodist congregation in upstate New York. She began her 3rd career – as a Freelance Writer – in 2008 and in May 2010, Susan became the Senior Editor of Our Heritage Magazine Online. For a year she wrote feature articles, recurring columns, lead stories, and edited all copy. She has written numerous eBooks, articles, and website copy for clients of her internet-based Freelance Writing business, SBUnlimited. She loves to write and was very excited at the publication of her first book in 2011, “Lady Father” – a memoir which tells the story of her difficult journey through the ordination process of the Episcopal Church in the 1980’s and her ministry as an ordained woman. It is full of pain, rejection, and discrimination but it also teems with inspiration, joy, and learnings, not to mention a lot of humor along the way. It speaks to anyone who aspires to ordained ministry, seminarians, newly ordained, and even the secular worker struggling with workplace discrimination. It is filled with hope that, with courage and perseverance, we can overcome anything that is put in our way. Her second book on Kindle is an eBook called “God is in the Journey,” a prequel to her memoir, “Lady Father.” It begins with her childhood and tells of her lifelong journey with God – how her challenges and obstacles taught her that, without God, there is no journey and no real life – only existence. After 12 years with Jermain United Methodist Church, she is now fully retired and living in upstate New York where she is a supply priest and tries hard to enjoy retirement. She is passionate about God, her family, especially her grandchildren, and writing, in that order. She also loves to read other people’s books but she really prefers audiobooks these days. She loves going to the movies and just being with people. I think that’s everything. Please let me know if you need other information and if we can group the 2 books together somehow. I am already enjoying working on your website and will continue with it today so you will get more by the end of today.
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