In His Hands, He Kept Me

About the Book

Mildred’s faith and trust in God would be tested many times in the course of a few years, but this courageous woman never wavered in her faith and belief that God would bring her out of all the pain and heartache that she was forced to endure as a result of her illness. She and her husband had only been married for a few months when the lung disease that she had been battling to overcome for years suddenly changed the direction in which her life would take forever. Mildred’s doctors indicated to her that she would have to undergo a lung transplant in order to maintain and stabilize her rapidly failing health. To her dismay, this would not only affect her but also her husband and her daughter, because even though they denied looking at her differently, she knew that they did because it was diffi cult not to look at herself differently. After several years of becoming as challenging as marriages are today without any outside infl uence, it is even more diffi cult when an illness as profound as the illness that Mildred and her husband had to face. Marriage takes commitment, trust, compromise, hard work, but most of all prayer. As you follow the pain and heart unraveled in this book, also take not of the love that is also expressed on many different levels, despite everything that happened to her, Mildred never failed to continue to love her husband. You should also be able to fi nd that as she struggled to fi nd some peace with all the diffi culties that came about in her life she managed to hold not only herself together, but also her daughter and husband as well. She fought to keep her marriage together in the midst of a terrible storm even as she battled a chronic lung disease. This dynamic, woman of God managed to keep her faith and trust in God and because of that faith and trust in him, he gave her the strength, to go on despite her situation.

About the Author

Mildred Rutledge is a 40 year old double lung transplant survivor who currently resides in Waldorf, Maryland with her fourteen year old daughter, Amber who is truly the joy of her life. She truly believes in the healing power of her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And believes that without the healing she received from him that she would not be alive today. Mildred gives credit to her former husband for inspiring her to write this book and also for pushing her to gain the courage and strength to step out on her own and do things she never imagined she could or would ever have to do. Mildred states that in the midst of all that goes on in her life that she relies on Proverbs 3:5-6 for the insight that she needs to succeed in all that she does which states: “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” Mildred is currently in the early stages of her second book and hopes that it will also help and soothe someone who is dealing with the difficult that will be expressed in her upcoming book. Ms. Rutledge is hopeful that by sharing her story that someone may be inspired to change the direction in which there own lives are headed.