My thoughts process for writing "Hand in the Hand Of" is my dedication, motivation, inspiration and spiritual view points on life lessons learned. It's the part of me that during my transition and observation of others transition I noticed the different stages of emotions that we encounter during our journey. The emotions are real but often ignored because we are not taught how to deal or face the fears that we come in contact with on a daily basis. We often allow fear to take over our being and control our life to the point of no return and we are held captivate, confused within our thoughts and allow the devil to have our freedom. Fear keeps us in bondage, a bondage that sometimes becomes our norm, a norm that becomes reality, a reality that becomes fear and fear that leads us down the same path that we dread; we dread it because it is unknown to us and what we don't know we often time fear. We dread our daily living because of past situation, past regrets, past mistakes, past relationships and not accepting and owing up to the responsibility of the person who we are, always looking to blame others because we do not have the drive, believe and trust in God to carry out His promise to His people. We deny ourselves happiness because we don't understand what it means to be happy, to be free, and unlock the chains that have been placed in our life. The chain is not easy to break, it's a process to healing, discovering who you were meant to be, your life purpose and all the enjoyable little small perks that God has instilled within us. He trust us with the gift He has given each of us to use for the good of others and know that the gift that we have is not for own purpose. To know that our gift is to be used to uplift others that may have or have not travel a similar road such as us. Giving back is the greatest gift that one can achieve to encourage others. I am being used for my strengths; so that I may capitalize on my weakness
About the Author: Lear was born in Demopolis, AL. She is the tenth child of 12 born to the parents of Mr. and Mrs. Eliza Lynch. At the age of five she lost her mother (Sadie Bell Lynch) and later moved to Detroit, MI where she was raised by her Aunt and Uncle Mr. and Mrs. Herman Christian where she resided until she moved to New York. She currently lives in Harvest, AL. Lear is the proud mother of three children Brandi Chanell Lynch-Long, Christien Gerard Rowan, George DaShawn Rowan, and a son in law Maurice Long. Lear has always had a passion for writing. Her favorite subject in high school was English and her favorite teacher was named Mr. Yee. He was the first person to recognize her talent and gift as writer and always encouraged her to write and to reach for her dreams. While attending college Lear had the opportunity to write her first short skit which eventually will become a full blown play titled "The Counselor." Lear has written two plays titled "My Teenager My Child" and "My Teenager My Child Part Two." She has also written a book titled "Forty Years Later, which was inspired by the election of the first African-American), President of the United States, President Barack H. Obama. She has co-written a poetry book titled "Wonderful Woman Selected Poems," with her sister Shirley Bolden, her sister-in-law Deloyce Lynch and her niece Kiah LeeAnn Lynch. Lear is set to co-write a play with Ms. Christiana Ashford one of her closest and dearest friends titled the "Prodigal Son." She has also written music for the plays. Lear is also in the process of writing a book titled "Dreams of Reality; Reality of Dreams," "The Divorce" which will be a collaboration of four different stories of women and their experience of being divorced. Lear's biggest challenge will be writing the biography of her aunt Mrs. Liza Ann-James Howard. Mrs. Howard was the first African American to graduate from Livingston University located in Livingston, AL the university has been renamed to the University of West Alabama. Lear is the owner and CEO of Faith and Deliverance Production Company.