Sometimes, Truth Hurts!

Hey there, Water Walkers and Water Walker Wannabes:

Minutes ago, I visited Novelist Rhonda McKnight's FB page as she shared about her mom crying when she received copies of Rhonda's new book, An Inconvenient Friend. 

Tears of joy.  I love it!  Gives me hope; but surprisingly, also, brought up pain. 

You see, my books are nonfiction.  In my case, my mom still spews displeasure, hate, and venom anytime my last book, I Say A Prayer For Me, is mentioned, comes to mind.  Recently, she let me know that she doesn't want to see the new one or anything else I write.  It hurts.  But write on, I must.

She also doesn’t want to know anything about me speaking anywhere.  If I never got another opportunity to speak it; she would love it.  But God opens doors, and I speak on.  I must. 

Now, writing this—my feelings—my experience, I feel censured by some whispered unwritten rule created to rise up against my voice steeped in what have become my greatest allies, TRANSPARENCY and HONESTY. 

While I’m living within the my passion and I believe God's purpose for my life, it alienates me from the woman who birthed the woman I was destined and designed to be.  Out of respect and to keep the peace, with the one woman I love above all women—my mother; what I do, is unspoken.  Sometimes, it’s best to understand rather than be understood.

Sometimes, truth hurts!

But to acknowledge and embrace who God has called us to be; we must acknowledge and let go of who we were when, by Grace, He chose to extract us from the dark and into His marvelous light.  The moment this wonderful new reality hits us, this grace and mercy that we’ve so freely received, we give up the world’s way—of secrets and sequestered lies that we thought were keeping us afloat and who we really were hidden from the world.  Instead, we yield to what no eye has seen or ear has heard—the blessings of a saved life; the wondrous plans and purposes for our lives, as sifted gold through the Fingers of God.

But God’s truth always sets FREE! 

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See you there? National Christian Writers Conference At Howard University, Sat. Aug 14th

Hey there, Water-Walkers and Water-Walker Wannabes:

I wanted to share this event with you.  I am so there!  My friend & PR Coach, Pam Perry, is putting on this national conference.  She has been such a blessing to me since 2002 when my book, I Say A Prayer, was published.  And now she's making sure I have the tools to promote my new book, Walking On Water When The Ground Ain't Enuf, coming later this month.  Please come out.  

Pam Perry

Do you have an idea for a terrific story? Do you need help transferring your ideas into book format? Have you written a manuscript but don’t know where to go to publish it? Come to the National Christian Writers Conference for a day of high powered workshops, panel discussions, and networking. Learn how to write like a pro and get noticed in the Christian marketplace, use social media tools, and much more.  Learn More about Writing, Publishing, & Marketing & meet, Michelle McKinney Hammond, Stacy Hawkins Adams, Karen Hunter

Will you be at the National Christian Writers Conference? www.nationalchristianwritersconference.com

Spread the news! Open to the public from 11am to 12:30p. Howard Gospel Choir performance, NCWC Celebration and Hub Bookstore Book Festival. Register to attend the #1 Conference for Writers, Authors and Speakers. Powerful publishing and wealth building workshops.

August 14, 2010  8am to 6pm

Howard University,  B. E. Mays Hall, 1400 Shepherd St. N.E.

2400 Sixth Street NW, Washington, DC 20017

Accommodations: Kellogg Conference Hotel

Meet Michelle McKinney Hammond, President/Founder of HeartWing Ministries, which hosts annual DIVA Weekend Getaway Conferences. She is the author of over 30 books on living, loving & over-coming. http://www.michellehammond.com/ - She will be the featured luncheon speaker at the NATIONAL CHRISTIAN WRITERS CONFERENCE at Howard University. 

Meet Stacy Hawkins Adams http://www.stacyhawkinsadams.com/ > Christian Novelist & Speaker.  Join us for an empowering event that will expand your creativity & accelerate your goals!   

Come Learn with Us If you need answers to your questions about book publishing, this conference focuses on providing you access to experts who can give you the answers you desire. Bring yourself or invite someone you know who could gain something from attend an action packed event in August of 2010. Click Here to Register!   Call our conference at (877) 544-3001 to discover how you can attend the world of Christian book publishing.

God is blessing us right now!

Stanice Anderson

Author, Inspirational Speaker and Performance Artist

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Just-in from Patrice Gaines, Author/Former Washing Post Reporter & Speaker

“Stanice Anderson adheres to the credo of writing instructors: “Write what you know.”  What she knows is how to walk on water.  She had the faith to walk away from drug addiction, even when there didn’t seem to be ground under her feet.  She reached a hand to the sky and was lifted over sinking sands.  Her words will make you soar above whatever is holding you down.  Consider ‘Walking On Water When The Ground Ain’t Enuf,’ a boat built by years of faith.  Open the book covers and hop on board.”  Patrice Gaines, Author & former Washington Post Reporter

To pre-order signed copies of Stanice’s new book, WALKING ON WATER WHEN THE GROUND AIN'T ENUF, for $13.95 plus FREE SHIPPING, click this link https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=Z3RPTETXCTQLW Offer expires August 5, 2010

Also visit her blog/website http://TryWalkingOnWater.com for more information and to book Stanice as Inspirational Speaker and Performance Artist.  You can also contact, Mike Tucker, at 202.904.4955 or mike@TryWalkingOnWater.com or stanice@TryWalkingOnWater.com

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We Need musicians.

I need to put about 5 piece band together for a show/concert my son & I are looking to produce right after Thanksgiving holidays. Guitar, bass, keyboards, violin, and percussionist.  Here is taste of what I do.  Now, just want to do more singing than talking on my shows; thus a concert.   Marvin Gaye, Swing Out Sister, Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone, Gladys Knight, Raheem DeVaughn, Mercy Me flavors à Stanice Anderson Style.  Say what??!! Is it possible???!!! Can it be???  Live in it! 

I’m walking on water when the ground ain’t enuf.  I thought you knew.  If you are interested, email .mp3 sample to stanice@TryWalkingOnWater.com or mike@District51.net

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Things That Make You Say, "Wow!"

As people are visiting my FB page, where I’ve posted my story as first told on The 700 Club 25 years ago, a lot of responses include or a singular “wow.”  It seems that the video is just as anointed—as powerful, as the day they filmed it.  As the evening I lived my crossover from death to eternal life.  My leap out of darkness into the marvelous light.

Folks are posting comments which show me that God is STILL meeting its viewers within the frames—within the words.  I’m humbled and at His feet—gratefully and joyfully so! 

It seems that I was born again with WOW written into my new DNA. One WOW experience after another since being clean and free.  How He did it, opportunities He's brought my way, peoples He's chosen to walk along beside me at all the stages of my life.  All WOW.  And the titles and concepts that have emerged through the pain and woven into my healing.  All wow.  Walking on Water When The Ground Ain't Enuf (started off with just the title). 

Then a year or so later; my son suggested I put together a performance and showcase the talents God gave me.  We picked a date.  He found a venue.  Then he asked, “What do you want to call it?”  Without hesitation, I announced with the surety of a  DreamWorks™ green-lighted project, Walking on Water When The Ground Ain't Enuf:  A One-Woman Experience.  My son and I premièred the show January 2007 to a standing room only crowd of 250 at Cada Vez on historic U Street NW, Washington, DC. 

From there, it went on the road to Hartford, CT; Fayetteville, NC; Chicago, IL, back to DC, then Prince George’s County, and pieces of the show go wherever I’m asked to speak or perform.  Spokentry/Poetry here.  Monologues there.  A song or two thrown in.  Stand-up comedy sandwiched in understanding that laughter heals too.

In the process, The WOW Zone™ was born.   And a tagline, laid into my mind like a soft feather pillow: Where walking on water is a way of life. 

And now the new book, Walking on Water When The Ground Ain't Enuf, Book 1 in The WOW Zone™ series...for water-walkers and water-walker wannabes.  And last Sunday, July 25^th, my son & I, produced another event that allowed me to set my light on a bushel—showcase the gifts & talents God gave me.

Nobody but God could orchestrate such things.  Even the hard and painful things built in between are not wasted.  These are, I believe, what makes the light shine brighter and farther.   Yes, only God can design such beautiful and marvelous things.  Things that make you say, “Wow!”

“I know where my help comes from.  My Help comes from The Lord; the Maker of Heaven and Earth!” (from Psalm 121)

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Walkin' On Water When The Ground Ain't Enuf by Stanice Anderson  
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HBO Documentary: Every F___ing Day Of My Life

On my Facebook page, we’ve had some stimulating conversation as a result of my following posting. 

“I just watched HBO documentary, "Every F__ing Day of My Life, a harrowing look at the final days of freedom for a young mother who killed her abusive husband w/help from her son. National Domestic Violence Hotline 800-799-SAFE”

Come and join in.  Your Point Of View is valued.  You never know who you’ll be helped, inspired or encouraged by your words.  It may even be you J!  Here’s the convo so far:

o   Michelle Williams Turnipseed sorry i missed it

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Yesterday at 3:59am ·

o   Stanice Anderson It's available 24/7 OnDemand HBO documentaries

Yesterday at 9:32am ·

o    Michelle Williams Turnipseed thanks Stanice

Yesterday at 10:00am ·

o   John Austin If I may weigh in-You know thou shall not kill. She wanted to justify killing her husband because he was abusive. Truth be told they took an oath before God and vowed for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, for better or worse till death do us part. It was just as terrible when Cain slew Abel. When you slay anyone you are in affect slaying God because man was made in the image of God.

Yesterday at 11:37am · Fredricka Tammy Carter

Hey yall!ok, I will be sure to check the docu. @ John I hear ya, but it also says He who findeth a wife...obviously he didn't think much of any scripture. Let's not bring the word in this-we all know. If you're getting your butt whooped eve...ryday by your husb,someone that's suppose to protect you & love you in the best wayyou tell me what's a girl to do-she prob didn't see no way out. (C'mon Your mom, your sister, your auntie) so many folks turn their back and have a deaf ear to Domestic Violence. Thank God there is help to assist the ones that's tired of suffering under the control of a hand.1-800-799-SAFE--- MEN are also victims of DV also- you know...See More

Yesterday at 12:30pm

 · John Austin Yes but the root of the problem is had she done her homework and investigated him before getting involved she would had saved herself some whoopings. Which takes us back to square one the wages of sin is death. If you are going to insist on being hardheaded then you must pay. There is no getting around it.

o  

Yesterday at 12:51pm

· Stanice Anderson Well this has certainly been stimulating convo and for more go to @john austin's page. Being a woman who haas survived one abusive relationships too many - I will say this, women + men if u find yourself being emotionally, physically, verbally, spiritually or any other type of abuse - GET OUT. You don't deserve to be treated with anything other than TLC. Ask for help, Save yourself and definitely save your children BEFORE it gets to deadly stages. That's what I took away from the documentary.

Yesterday at 1:41pm

 · John Austin And I still say that the wise thing to do is to LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP.

21 hours ago

    Geneva Jean Moon John, I appreciate your concern that women look before they leap, but some women have dated men for years and never saw any abuse until after marriage. If you friends, family and church approve, and you do not know the signs or do not see the signs, how is the woman to blame?

16 hours ago ·

  Geneva Jean Moon and John, I am not advocating killing anyone either. I'm merely responding to the topic of blaming the woman for making the wrong choice. Since ministers are some of the worst abusers (statics prove this at battered women shelters), then for certain, it is not always seen before marriage.

16 hours ago ·

 Stanice Anderson   Yes, Geneva, I'm with you on every point. I went to my pastor with the perpetrator (my 2nd husband) and when I told him what was happening, all he did was tap his hearing aid and said "you two have to work it out."  To this day, I think hi...s batteries were dead. He couldn't have heard what I said. But then too, sometimes you see the signs--you look but you think you're not seeing right. Or you want to be loved so badly and this is some kind of faulty love but it's love none the less. Or you've been so bruised even before you get to adult hood by those that claim to love you; you think this IS what love looks like. At least all the love that you deserve. And so the convo continues on my page. Lord, have your way, YOU are the POTTER; I am but clay.

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Stanice performs Beauty Designed by God

Beauty Designed By God by Stanice Anderson  
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A little something easy like Saturday morning.  Today, see the beauty in what God has made—YOU.

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By Grace, We are Overcomers!

 Cedric Carter's comments on my 700 Club testimony video made these thoughts surface:  God, indeed does for us what we can not seem to do for ourselves--makes us overcomers steeped in victory!  We're living signposts to God.

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Update: Let's Go To PRINT PARTY was G-O-O-D!

District 51 and Shout Glory LLC presented Stanice Anderson’s Let’s Go To PRINT PARTY, Sunday, July 25^th at Liv (The BREAkFAST kLUB) on 11^th & U St., NW (atop the historic Bohemian Caverns), Washington, DC

We made our way to the venue in a thunderSTORM. Wow, it was intense!  Had to pull over a couple of times. I thought I saw super cells trying to form into funnels.  Too many "storm chaser" shows?  It was scary. Found out later, there WAS a tornado watch in affect.  I'm sure it had an impact on people's decisions to come to the event. But still quite a few, braved the elements; or like me didn’t know there was a tornado watch.  So, those that didn’t make it, you were there in spirit!  My prayer was for everyone to be safe.

We had a great time. I performed with all my heat like it was a crowd of thousands. Thank you, Thank you for coming!  God blessed us, indeed! I'll post photos later.

Hold up… what’s this?  Fresh in.

Okay the photos just landed.  Thanks to photographer Nikki.  

I was tearing up by the 3rd photo.  I love how God does a thing!  I've been struggling so hard since before the year came in.  So much pain (with double knee surgery and all) and yet through it all, I see the light of God present in me and in the day and in each of you that came out to support me.  Nothing stopped us from walking on water!  Now, I'm straight up crying.  Might as well get a "Praise God from whom all blessings flow up in here."  THANK YOU, JESUS!!!  I'm doing better than I know. 

I posted a photo album on FaceBook; but, so anyone can see it, the pubic URL is http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=235467&id=662940694&l=a41389ee2a

(Photo upper – Stanice & Son, Mike Tucker (event producer), (Cover painting, Demont “Peekaso” Pinder)
(Cover Design, Mike Tucker), (Dress courtesy of Marcia DuVall, owner of Trade Secrets) (My WOW Zone radio show, live remote hosted by Joyce Burnette http://BlogTalkRadio.com/TheWOWZone  OnDemand available 24/7 and live Sundays 5 pm to 5:45 pm EST)

SPECIAL till August 5^th, Pre-order my signed book, Walking On Water When The Ground Ain’t Enuf, for only $13.95 with FREE S&H.  Click link:  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=Z3RPTETXCTQLW

People are saying:

"Like its author, Walking on Water When The Ground Ain’t Enuf, is authentic, uplifting and inspired reading for anyone needing the wind at their back for transportation to a special place." (S Robert Morgan  (Actor/Director) For us HBO "The Wire" fans; he played Butchie.")

"If you want to learn how to mount up on wings like an eagle, or run and not get weary, start by watching Stanice walk on water!" Joy Jones, Author/Performance Poet/Playwright (Black Women Playwrights’ Group)

“After reading just the first chapter of Stanice’s new book, I feel rejuvenated by her words in prose and prayer. She’s truly an anointed word and prayer warrior. We can all learn wonderful and marvelous things from her powerful teachings within the pages of this manuscript.” Barbara Joe Williams, Independent Publisher & Author, A Writer's Guide to Publishing & Marketing

Love and Blessings Galore,

Stanice

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Searching for A Signal VENUE CHANGE

Boo-hoo, ha-ha, uh-oh. AHA! Negotiating life is a dark and haphazard trip that can just as easily take you from tears to triumph or from tears to tragedy. That's why we're all Searching for a Signal.

I'm experiencing all of those emotions as I mount my new play, Searching for a Signal, as part of the first ever DC Black Theatre Festival. I'm blogging about the experience - join me on the blog by clicking on Share With Joy at www.JoyJonesOnline.com.

And I hope you'll also join me for the one-time only performance. Mark your calendar for Sunday, August 1, 2010 at 4:30 p.m. at JOE'S MOVEMENT EMPORIUM 3309 Bunker Hill Rd, Mt. Rainier, MD.

Just over the DC/MD line, around the corner from GLUT.

Admission: $15.
Tickets at: www.DCBlackTheatre Festival.com

Brought to you as a public service by:

Stanice Anderson

Author, Inspirational Speaker & Performance Artist

Websites: Stanice.com, TryWalkingOnWater.com

Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn

Radio: The WOW Zone, BlogTalkRadio Show (Sundays 5pm-5:45pm EST)

Books:

Walkin' On Water When The Ground Ain't Enuf:  (August 2010)

Contributing Author, SistahFaith:Real Stories of Pain, Truth & Triumph (Howard Books/Simon &Shuster)

I Say A Prayer For Me: One Woman’s Life of Faith & Triumph (Walk Worthy Press/Warner Books)
12-Step Programs: A Resource Guide For Helping Professionals (Learning Publications)

To book Stanice: Contact Mike Tucker 202-904-4955 mike@TryWalkingOnWater.com  

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