Carolyn Verdin

A Penny for your thoughts Carolyn Verdin

I find pennies everyday and I think of my beloved sister Lisa daily. I started finding pennies when I was in a dark place because her death was so hard to believe. I couldn't believe that we were not going to grow old together. We were one year apart and she was the oldest. I wrote this book "A Penny for your thoughts" because it was about my journey while I was in that dark place and I wrote all of my thoughts down on paper so the book was unedited. Some days you couldn't understand what I was writing and other days you can totally understand what I was writing. This book wasn't meant to make sense it was to show how depressed I really was when I lost my sister. The book was filled every comma, period, run-on sentence, and every grammatical error there was in black and white. Those pages that I wrote on were filled with nothing but darkness and pain because I really thought I was going to lose my mind. Losing my sisters and my mother back to back was so hard to handle and to comprehend. The first year in 2013 I lost my younger sister Tracey, 2014 I lost my sister Cherrie, 2015 I lost my sister Lisa, and then 5 months later I lost my mother. It seemed like death was knocking on every one of my family members' doors every year. It was starting to become very overwhelming to process, but God had a ram in the bush. Just when I thought I couldn't overcome the loss of Lisa's death God stepped in and gave me a brand new beginning of unconditional love that I will never be able to explain. God restored my heart, my mind, my peace, and my soul by blessing me with my first grandchild that I call Jassu'. Jassu' keeps me happy, busy, and peaceful. Who would've thought that I would come across this beautiful gem while shopping in the store God directed my attention to the jewelry department and I found a penny necklace, I call that destiny. Thank you for always listening to me.