Alive with Passion and Purpose
Sandy is a Southern woman. Her early roots were in Mississippi and Louisiana. In her adult life she graced the town of Cleburne, Texas, while also traveling far and wide for business, ministry and pleasure.   She has seen the hard edge of generational poverty, the elegance of Southern hospitality, the disruption caused by hurricanes and the excesses of the gas and oil industry.   She has seen flagrantly dysfunctional lives, dysfunction covered by a thin veneer of culture, and the beauty of people living big.   Sandy loves life as it was meant to be lived. Whether parenting her own children or teaching high school English students, she tried to help people bring the disparate parts of their lives together to unleash the treasure that was in them.   After learning about the redemptive gifts of land, she tried her hand for quite awhile on the spiritual and cultural dysfunctions of her own community.   Through all of this, she was living big, seeking, searching for the sweet spot in the game of life. While she helped many others, it eluded her. Then she started writing this book and the Scrabble tiles seem to leap off the tray in the right order to spell a gloriously alive word.  She discovered how naturally research comes to her. She found great joy in distilling a mountain ofirrelevant data into a story line where the visible was actually driven by this invisible force called the redemptive gift.   Her word smithing abilities finally found a large enough playing field to soar and dance as she captured subtle shades and nuances followed swiftly by the sublime.   Sandy is a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a friend, a teacher, a writer, a Southern lady - but more to the point, she is more gloriously alive, with passion and purpose than she has ever been before.