A-Z: My Jesus Welcomed Encounter: When Divine Timing Made Her Presence Known

By Wenefer Servon White

From “Alive” to “Zone,” author Wenefer S. White, the daughter of a preacher, shares critical elements of her life. In A-Z: My Jesus Welcomed Encounter, she narrates a collection of stories where something, someone, or the circumstances worked together for her good to create a spiritual rendezvous.

Each of the anecdotes, gathered from more than her sixty years of life, begins with a letter of the alphabet and is followed by a word or a phrase that highlights the story. At the end of the story, White encourages reflection. Have you experienced a similar event? How did it impact you? Some humorous and some sad, she delivers an alphabetical view of her being reflecting on her family, friends, and faith.

A-Z: My Jesus Welcomed Encounter challenges you to take the next step, to determine what’s in your mind and heart you desire to create or become. Make a decision. Then, create a flexible and workable plan that inspires you to keep your commitment to the plan

• Language: English
• Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
• Release date: Dec 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9781489726582

Wenefer Servon White

Wenefer White is an author whose resilience is born from a life shaped by adversities. Growing up as a preacher's daughter instilled in her the enduring principle: God, faith, hope, love and resilience from an early age. Wenefer's life has been marked by a series of traumas, including the heartrending dissolution of a fifteen-year marriage, which have marked her life's odyssey amidst unfathomable losses: her parents, a sister, and the agonizing departure of her cherished son to a rare cancer at the age of fifteen. Furthermore, she also experienced partial blindness as a result of retinal detachment. Her journey stands as a testament to the unyielding human spirit, revealing the divine strength within us that surpasses adversities. Wenefer's unwavering courage and resilience serve as a guiding light, reminding us that our inner fortitude shines most brilliantly in the depths of life's trials. In these challenging moments, we unearth our capacity for triumph, resilience, and love, evolving into our 'BETTER' selves. "We are all on a path, a journey of transformation Becoming who we came here to be." - Wenefer S. White

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LifeRich Publishing rev. date: 12/17/2019

To my precious granddaughters, Trinity and Claudia Servon,

"Write it on

your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

You both are amazingly beautiful, smart and wise!

PREFACE

I was very young, around four or five years old, walking down the steps of our front porch. I had my bottle, my trusted companion, in my hand. While preparing to indulge in another delicious and satisfying drink, my bottle was abruptly taken from me. Out of nowhere, the shadow of a person appeared. A familiar voice said, You’re too big for that bottle; you don’t need it! The next thing I knew, my trusted companion was tossed in the trash. I stood there, shocked. Suddenly, something vital to me was gone. I’m not sure what hurts the most, the loss of my trusted companion—my bottle—or that it was hijacked by someone I loved and felt safe with, my dad. I was thunderstruck. Imagine this being your earliest childhood memory.

You probably think What a jerk, he wasn’t! On the contrary, I loved and adored my dad; he was my example of living a Christian lifestyle.

Somewhere in my brain, that unexpected reprimand by my dad triggered panic. At that very moment, my feelings were controlling my reality. My insides were screaming, What are we going to do now? This unwelcomed encounter became embedded in my early childhood psyche. Now in my sixties, this recalled the feeling of lost trust, possibly even feeling unloved, is still vivid. This childhood memory, along with other childhood experiences, shaped my future reactions (unconscious behaviors) and my responses (conscious behaviors).

The following is my backstory. I was brought up with deep-rooted Christian values. My father was an African American Southern Baptist minister who pastored for forty-six years. He and my mother were married for fifty-seven years, and from that union, they had six children, five daughters, and one son. I was the third daughter and named after my father. We were taught to believe that Jesus was the absolute solution to all life’s challenges and