And, He Made a Woman is a work that was many ...

... years in the making. If someone had told me I would one day write a book, I would have thought them crazy but that was before, I became a new woman in Christ Jesus. 

To say my life changed is an understatement. I really went through a transformation physically and spiritually. As God ordered my steps in His Word, I discovered a new life. A life in which I learned that I was special to Him. So much so until He “made” me special from all of his other creations. 

Discovering my true identity as a woman set me free to shed the burden of being a liberated woman to learning to walk in the liberty He had called me to. During this time, I embarked upon a long held desire of mine which was to complete my college education. True to His Word that if I would delight myself in Him, He would give me my heart’s desire, God made it possible for me to not only complete a Bachelor’s Degree but also a Master’s Degree in Education-Counseling. And, He did it all within six years while I was working a full-time job. That was a miracle in itself!

During my educational process, both academically and Biblically, God transformed a high school drop out, college stop out, teen wife and mother, single parent raising two sons into an educated, capable and confident woman that had learned she was somebody because God didn’t make junk! Through ups and downs and the stripping away of my tired thinking, God formulated a ministry—God’s Special Forces, a training program for developing young women of quality from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds between the ages of 8 – 17 years.

And, He Made a Woman is me sharing with you in writing what I take to women everywhere and everytime I’m given the opportunity…to let them know that God made (skillfully formed and shaped) them with a specific purpose in mind. 

I am sincerely grateful that I have been given the opportunity to write this book and thankful that God put people in my life that have encouraged and supported me through the writing, editing, publication and now marketing process.

I pray that the words in this book will be as much a blessing for you to read as they were for me to write. 

Darlene Laney, Author