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Slow Hope
by Anita Swanson
She knew it was over as soon as her second child was born. However, by that time she was barely able to complete a thought. Let alone organize a plan for getting out of her marriage. So she just let herself drift, until finally nothing seemed to matter very much at all.
She still went to church, of course. Sundays she sang at the Baptist church where her husband served as Minister of Music and Thursdays, even though her husband told her he didn’t approve, she attended a Presbyterian Bible Study for women.
And still she prayed. She prayed for guidance and understanding. She prayed for wisdom and forgiveness. She prayed for help and endurance. But mostly she simply prayed for deliverance. She wanted out. Out of the bonds of her fundamental marriage. Out of her feelings of oppression. And out of the black hole that now surrounded her with every breath she took.
~Excerpt from Slow Hope
by Anita Swanson
The easy questions come first. Have you ever lied about anything and suffered for it? Have you ever self medicated through pills or alcohol? Have you ever contemplated or gotten divorced? Have you ever contemplated or had an affair? Have you ever felt abandoned by the church? Have you ever contemplated leaving or left the church because you found it too judgmental or oppressive? Then author Anita Swanson says Slow Hope’s message of courage, restoration and forgiveness is for you.
The hard questions come later. How can you save a life gone haywire? Can anyone really heal from child abuse or do the effects lasts forever? What’s the church ever done for me anyway?
And the answers can be found in the often difficult journey she travels and the light that guides her path along the way.
Slow Hope is a multi-layered love story that focuses, among other themes, on child abuse, as well as the church and its initial resistance to Psychotherapy. Slow Hope does not attempt to convert anyone nor attempt to change the laws of leadership in the fundamental church. Slow Hope shows that as the author states “with ordinary courage and determination, oppression can be overcome and generational cycles of violence can be stopped.”
Slow Hope is for anyone who needs to be reassured that there really is power in prayer and simply hanging on. This impassioned narrative teaches that we can learn, we can change, we can be forgiven and finally, that our faith can be restored because if you can face your past, you can heal your past.
About Anita Swanson
As a writer Anita has studied at the UCLA Writers Program and attended numerous writing programs including the prestigious University of Iowa Writing Program. First Place Winner of fiction in the Taproot Literary Review she is a published author of essays as well as her first book, Slow Hope, an acclaimed narration of what it takes to heal from a childhood of abuse to live a life of triumph.
As an actor Anita has appeared in regional and national television commercials and through her membership in the prestigious West Coast Ensemble Theater Company she received outstanding reviews from the LA Times for her role in Susan Griffin’s, Voices.
As a parent Anita successfully raised two daughters as a single mother following her divorce from a high-profile Baptist Minister of music.
As a Christian she has assisted in the teaching of Bible Classes and sung in countless church choirs.
Now remarried and living on the lake in Lake County, CA, Anita continues to write, speak and enjoy her many grandchildren. She is happy to call First Baptist Church of Lakeport her home.
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