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Thank God I Got Diabetes

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INTRODUCTION

by John Castagnini

IMPORTANT...Please Do Not Skip This Section!

Why this ebook? What makes it so different? Not onlyare these answers important, they are integral to yourunderstanding of the story presented here. Please donot skip over this brief introduction in your eagernessto get to the meat of the ebook itself.

When I first thought to include Thank God I WasRaped as one of the stories for Thank God I...™ Volume1, the concept sent chills through my spine. Couldanyone who’s endured this brutal, horrifying experiencereally embrace these words? Over the years, I’veconsulted with countless women during their raperecovery. I chose the title after witnessing whattranspires for them when they come to this conclusionof gratitude. What became quite apparent over acourse of thousands upon thousands of conversationsis that we only evolve past the mental traum a fromsuch a happening when we can hold “the love for it in

our hearts”




What is meant by “God”?

God — Certainly, the biggest three-letter word evercreated. Grand Organized Designer best describes theGod referred to in the Thank God I...™ books, websiteeducational material and seminars.

The thousands of people sharing their stories in thisseries all perceive God in their own light. Thank GodI...™ is about this network of people, willing to movebeyond having the right “name” for God.

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What this book series is not supposed to be.

This series does not condone or promote any of the

acts the writers have experienced, nor do we suggestin any way that anyone should either commit any ofthese acts or subject themselves to any of these acts.This series also does not promote or label any specifickind of behavior as “right” or “wrong”, nor were the storieswritten or the book published for the purpose of

suggesting that anyone rationalize their actions orbehavior.




In addition, the Thank God I...™ series does not promoteor deny any religion. Rather, it honors the existence ofreligion and all things as part of a perfect creation.

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Our intention with this series is to convey this one keyprinciple: Perfection permeates everything. Each time

we fail to recognize this principle, the next lesson tocome our way will once again offer us the opportunityto see the perfection and break through into freedom.In fact, finding perfection in the pain and pleasure ofour own personal tribulations is the only way we willever liberate ourselves from the bondage of patterns.

Whether it comes in a day, a year, or a lifetime away,situations will come into our lives that will force us tobecome thankful for “what was,” and to whole-heartedlyexperience “what is.”

What is meant by “Thanking God”?

During the creation phase of this series, we werefortunate to have as our ever-efficient assistant,Cassandra Gatzow, a beautiful twenty-three-year-oldwriter and poet. Just prior to coming to work with us,Cassandra was diagnosed with cervical cancer. A littleover a year and a half later, the cancer spread and she

left this world before the first book launched.




After Cassandra passed, my heart was struck by thewords she put to the page as she endured thisexperience. She wrote of her earth angels and herexplorations as she left her body to “dance with herangels.” She did not write about her passing, she wroteabout Thank God I...™ living as she moved through herlife’s greatest test, and her life’s ending. She viewedeach person, each moment as precious. How fortunate

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“Tears fill my eyes daily with gratitude for every moment and every breath. It has allowed me to go after my

dreams, to live from my heart, and to be truly free. I thank God for my cancer and for allowing me to reach a place in me that I don’t think would have been possible without this experience. I am now twenty- three and feel that I have stepped into my skin proudly.I have felt an inner peace that many don’t find until later in life. I am truly grateful for all my earth angels and

want to thank them for sharing with me this wonderful journey”

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Thanking God is about the above. Not just what isabove this sentence; it is about what is above, guidingus at every moment. Beyond the pain, chaos, andconfusion of our circumstance exists true perfection.Thanking God is about finding this perfection. Thisplace of thanking God might seem nearly impossible to

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spirit. Thank God I...™ gratitude is about equal love forall that is, as it is, was, or ever shall become. Gratitudeis loving what we don’t “like” as much as loving what wedo “like”.

The diversity of authors and experiences

The intention of this series is to reach all of humanity,




every single unique creation. We did not base theselection of contributions to this series upon any faithor religious orientation. Each selected author took aformer challenge into their heart. The diversity ofauthors spans religions, countries, professions, age,race, nationality, and definitely experiences. Theyrange from strippers to doctors, from politicians to stay-at-home moms, and whoever they are, gratitude rules.

From alcoholism to molestation or rape, the law ofgratitude prevails with each of our authors.Thankfulness for whatever is, or is not, ultimately rulesevery one of our kingdoms.

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“All things in nature proceed from certain necessity and

with the utmost perfection.” ...Baruch Spinoza




Thank God

I Got Diabetes

JOHN KREMER




I am a night person. I love working at night when theworld settles down, all is quiet, and there are nointerruptions. That strategy worked well for me formany years as a writer, but eventually it caught up withme.

To keep going late at night --when the earth is so stilland silent -- I'd snack on junk food, often eating an

entire box of cookies or bag of candy. As a result, Igained some 50 pounds over a 20-year period. It wasso gradual a change -- just a few pounds a year -- thatit didn't seem so bad. Of course, it was.

I bore the brunt of the weight: walking was harder,

muscles ached, getting out of bed got harder andharder. But I loved working at night so much and Icouldn't stop the snacking. Truth be told, I wasaddicted.

I tried diets and would lose a few pounds here andthere, but I always gave up on any program within a

week or two. Dieting simply wasn't for me. Too manyrules.

Then one May, a number of things began going wrongwith my body. The key was my eyesight. I beganhaving trouble reading the words on the computer

screen as I wrote. It started with me having to wear myglasses on the tip of my nose so I could read the words




clearly. That worked for a while, but within a week ortwo, I couldn't push my glasses any further down mynose in order to read.

I discovered another solution for a time. Silly as itseems, I found that I could read the screen if I wore myglasses upside down. That odd strategy worked foranother few weeks, but then even that stopped working.

I feared it was old age, that I was losing my ability tosee, that my eyes were deteriorating right in front ofme. I went to the optometrist and got a newprescription. Again, I could see, but three weeks later,the same problem crept into my routine. I knew I was

going to have to see the optometrist again. That wasscary. My eyesight was literally degrading minute byminute, hour by hour.

Before I could see the optometrist again, other parts ofmy body began breaking down. Over the same periodof time, I had been getting major calluses on my feet. I

thought it was from walking around barefoot so much,which I did when it was hot -- and it had been a veryhot May and June. One particular dried and crackedcallus didn't seem to want to heal at all, no matter howmuch lotion I slathered on it. This also worried me, butagain, I was too busy to do much more than put lotion

on my feet several times a day.




I placed the blame on getting older. I was then fifty-fiveand just figured that it was the cost of aging -- a littlesooner than I expected. Not having grown old before, Ireally didn't have a yardstick to go by, except to seeother friends also complaining about growing achesand pains.

Then, in late June, I started having another symptom. I

had to urinate all the time. Now, on one hand, this wasgood because it enabled me to drink more water --something my wife had been encouraging me to do.But after a week of urinating on the hour or sometimesmore often, I grew concerned that there might besomething more going on. So I made an appointment

with the doctor (it really takes me getting knocked overthe head to visit a doctor). Long story short, he told meI had diabetes.

All the symptoms were there: the rapidly changingeyesight, the cracked and dried skin on my feet, theexcessive urination, and other signs I'd ignored. I just

didn't know. No one had ever told me.

Diabetes, as it turns out, is not just an inconvenient setof symptoms. It is a life-threatening disease -- one thatcan kill you quickly if ignored.

My doctor described to me my options: drugs, dietchange, more exercise, and eventually insulin. None of




John Kremer is an acknowledged expert on bookpublishing and marketing. Besides being the owner ofhis own publishing company (Open Horizons in Taos,New Mexico), he is also the author of a number ofbooks on publishing and marketing, including 1001Ways to Market Your Books: For Authors andPublishers (6th Edition), The Complete DirectMarketing Sourcebook, High Impact Marketing on a

Low Impact Budget, and Celebrate Today. He is thewebmaster of BookMarket.com, QuotableBooks.com,and TouristTrains.us.

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