Theresa
taught school for 12 years. Students
with disabilities won her heart and she became Director of Special Education in
an effort to better serve them. She
retired in 2010 and began writing children’s books.
Theresa
is the author of children’s books, Don’t
Forget Daddy and A Sunny Tomorrow. Her adult books include non-fiction Journey to Fulfillment and fiction Triumph Through Trial. She has written one curriculum guide for the
novel Night of the Cossack, a
historical fiction for young adults by Tom Blubaugh, titled Night of the Cossack, Lesson Plan.
Journey
to Fulfillment
Have you
experienced heartache? Has emotional trauma turned into physical pain? Are you
tired of life's setbacks and looking for reassurance from God? Journey to
Fulfillment is for you. Through this encouraging and often humorous devotional,
author Theresa Franklin will show you how to turn life's impossible stumbling
blocks into stepping stones toward a fulfilled life. In Journey to Fulfillment,
Theresa chronicles the painful events in her life and how they changed her
character and her principles forever. She challenges you to remember your
childhood and how events from your past have influenced your today. God uses
each milestone as stepping stones to strengthen and prepare you for His
service. Learn to achieve your goals by letting the painful events of life
strengthen you. And consider what could be or has been accomplished because of
these adversities. Consider each person who has gathered strength from you
because of the journey God allowed you to travel.
Join
author Theresa Franklin in her tender and delightful memoir, Journey to
Fulfillment, as she shares her life experiences that have molded her character
into the woman God intended her to be. Theresa, honestly and brazenly discusses
heartaches, tragedies and triumphs from childhood through adulthood. With an
open and compassionate heart, the Author lays bare the adversity she has faced
through life to include the loss of her first love to marrying and the
challenges one can face in being a wife and a mother, and notably her struggles
in teaching special needs children. Throughout all, there has been one constant
in her life, the unconditional love of her Savior, Jesus Christ.
Review
Theresa Franklin
turned childhood darkness, pain and hardship, to profound convictions
Theresa Franklin turned childhood darkness, pain and hardship, to
profound convictions, insight and style of teaching that shine like diamonds in
the rough terrain on which parents and teachers tread. Her writing sings with
vivid description of moving episodes, life's patterns and desires. All too
familiar to most. And her message resonates with power, so deep, all parents
and teachers need to embrace.
Journey to Fulfillment is truly a journey not
just for educators, but for anyone trying to learn what brings true
fulfillment. And those who need to see how joy fills our soul when we use our
life and passion and dreams to impact others. The pages in Journey to
Fulfillment bring such basic, yet profound insights as this: "... one
student was in trouble for a year, one student was in trouble for probably the
fourteenth time in two weeks. I stood over his desk and reprimanded him
severely. As I listened to my voice and watched his little head hung low, I
thought, Theresa, you have to change this. You cannot let this child leave the
room feeling bad. I deliberately softened my voice and said, "Now,
Daniel." Before I could finish the statement, without raising his head, he
said, "I know, I know. You love me because I am me, not because of what I
do or say. As long as I am me, you are going to love me. It is my behavior that
you do not like. You love me but not my behavior."
The lesson in Journey
to Fulfillment: true fulfillment and satisfaction comes when we resolve to use
our experiences, trials and triumph in our own life to turn another life
around.
August 23, 2011 by Janet Perez Eckles, author of Amazon #1 bestselling, Simply Salsa:
Dancing Without Fear at God's Fiesta, Judson Press, 2011
