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    Speak Life to Me
    Speak Life to Me
    Speak Life to Me
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    Speak Life to Me

    By LouAnn Martucci

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    This is an incredible story of how God delivered author LouAnn Martucci from stage IV cancer and through the process revealed to her a career path of speaking out to protect the unborn.

    Her doctors told her that her prognosis was bleak, giving her only a few years to live if she chose to be treated with aggressive traditional medicine. Instead, she took the holistic approach and was given a freedom from cancer report five years later under the care of a naturopathic medical doctor. She chose no chemo or radiation. Now, she shares how God healed her through this process, not only physically but emotionally. She explores very sensitive topics of her past experiences of abuse and trauma, which were suppressed for years and never dealt with.

    She has worked for years with women dealing with these sensitive topics; God revealed her own darkness as she was counseling a client; this revelation, in turn, gave her a great and blessed victory.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateSep 12, 2011
    ISBN9781449719944
    Speak Life to Me
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    LouAnn Martucci

    LouAnn has been inspiring youth and parents with her faith and life experiences over a decade. She speaks with passion about the choices that have led her down a road that could have potentially cost her life. She speaks with transparency about tough issues. Her vision for training strong leaders for tomorrow involves giving them the tools to equip themselves with good morals and character building. LouAnn has been working with crisis pregnancy centers for years and is committed to protecting the unborn through her own testimony. She believes in Jesus Christ and the foundational truths of His Living Word, which made her a stage IV cancer survivor with no chemo or radiation treatments. She is a former race car driver and body builder. She is a mother, grandmother, and domestic violence advocate. She is a Life Affirming Specialist for the Crisis Pregnancy Movement.

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      Speak Life to Me - LouAnn Martucci

      Contents

      Dedication

      Forward

      The Diagnosis

      The Decision

      One Hundred Percent Committed

      The Clinic

      My Life

      Spiritual Battles

      Our Tiny Miracle

      The Country Roads

      Surgery Times Two

      My Passion

      Toxic Emotions

      His Name is Sam

      Reflection

      Speak Life to Me

      "As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it."

      (Isaiah 55:10, 11)

      By LouAnn Martucci

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to my family, especially my children, Amber, Chase, and Britni. Also to my grandchildren; Dylan, Danielle, and our angel baby, Dalton; and all the babies who have lost their lives, but on angels wings were taken to our God in Heaven.

      A special boy named Sam

      Also to Crisis Pregnancy Centers for their amazing and compelling work, and the women and men who have lived with guilt and shame from an abortion.

      To my best friends who encouraged me to write this book.

      But most importantly, this is dedicated to God for directing me in this journey. Thank you for giving me grace and life.

      Forward

      A Word from LouAnn

      This book is written for all who have experienced a time of darkness in their life when, they felt there was no hope. This book came from choices I made throughout my life and how God led me through the storms. I have shed many tears re-living each chapter. It has been an incredible journey of healing, not just physically, but also emotionally and spiritually. It took me five years of thoughts written on notes, journals, and tiny scraps of paper with random moments of writing. It was my prayer to have this book completed by my five year anniversary of the cancer diagnosis. I am truly a survivor in many ways.

      God showed me many miracles during this time. I pray the path of my life will give you a message of hope to believe God has a purpose for your life, and each experience you go through is part of completing your journey. If you stick with His plan and direction, you will find restoration. I pray it truly inspires you.

      This is my story of how I coped, how I endured, and how I resisted the enemy of defeat in order to survive. I had to listen to the still small voice of God to direct me after making choices that still affect me for a lifetime. I learned from His Word, the Bible, I am His, blessed, forgiven, and have the truth He has set me free from guilt and shame.

      This book offers how I chose alternative treatments for my cancer instead of traditional medicine. My faith was the sole deciding factor and my strong belief this decision is what God guided me through. I am not endorsing this method on anyone to replace their method of treatment. This was a very personal decision and was considered risky. I feel anyone who gets a disease has a right to be pro active. It is up to them and their own beliefs after careful consideration from their physician. Although I went against the grain of what most people do traditionally, this was my experience and my life. I had total peace with it. I definitely believe it took cancer to get me to this point of peeling back the layers of pain I never dealt with. Because of cancer, I became very humble and healed without a regimen of modern medicine. God revealed to me a spiritual breakthrough. I grew so incredibly close to Him.

      There are some very personal things in these chapters I struggled and walked alone with for so long. It was those gentle nudges from God and prayer that allowed me to expose what needs to be shared. It was from writing this book I had so many outstanding moments of reflection, I could purge, heal and become whole again. It was during this process, my life became purposeful and very clear why God made me who I am today. By His grace, He has given me a second chance at Life.

      My intentions are never to offend anyone. It comes from the core of my heart to help those who are hurting, feeling alone and afraid of what the future holds. I hope it speaks Life to you and gives you a reason not to give up. I pray it will encourage you to seek God’s wisdom and get ultimate victory in your circumstances, and to have peace in the process.

      The scriptures I share in each chapter inspired me over and over again. I got them so deep within me; I received strength, blessings and grace from our God who gave them.

      A Message for My Mommy

      Looking back on my mom’s cancer journey, I’ve realized it has made me a different person. I remember always asking before she got diagnosed, What would happen if you were to die? Where would I live? I never thought she would be the person to get cancer, I thought mine and my family’s lives would be perfect. Of course I was only about 10 years old, and didn’t understand a lot of things. Being in the same room as my mom as she was fighting the biggest battle of her life was so heartbreaking to witness. Concentrating on my school work became very hard. I would become so emotional even if we were reading a book in class in which someone had cancer. My mom was the closest person to me I had, and she was one person I was so afraid of losing. As my mom started healing I noticed that I had so much to be thankful for. I look at things differently now. I’ve changed emotionally and everything is more serious to me now. She is now my role model and someone I look up too. I’ve always believed in her and even now especially. I thank you mom for everything you have done and how strong you’ve been these past years just to be with us today. I love you! I thank God.

      Love Your Daughter, Britni

      A Note From My Oldest Daughter

      I had heard the saying, ‘everything is appropriate to its time’, several times through my young adulthood. Not fully embracing the meaning, not really knowing and looking deep into our family life and what was appropriate to our time, the moment we were living in. I can say hearing the words from my mom, our mom…. that she had cancer was not appropriate to my time. Or so I thought….

      In the beginning I had so many questions, I would doubt myself being optimistic then I would have my conscience step in and my guilt of not feeling optimistic would get in the way, I then would be strong. On days where I was weak and scared I would think of my siblings who were much younger than me and who had to be scared beyond belief, and my Mom herself not knowing if each coming day may be her last, that is where I stopped my weakness, I had to believe. She helped

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