I Need a Better Friend (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781535374798)

No sooner had the Lord given Mel Ann Sullivan Psalm 37:4 as a promise than she began to see the people she loved most taken from her. Her mother was diagnosed with brain cancer just weeks before Mel Ann graduated from high school, and lost the battle after 14 months. Four years later, her father had a fatal automobile accident. She and her husband had just celebrated their first anniversary. By anyone's standards, it would not be the best way to enter adult life. After nearly 30 years of marriage and three children, God has given Mel Ann the desires of her heart, and not the least of them - the delight of a relationship with Christ that far exceeds salvation alone. Saved at a young age, Mel Ann began a journey to now call Christ "Savior," and bow to Him as "Lord." In the absence of the strongest support they'd ever known, the losses brought a stark awakening to Mel Ann and her siblings as they depended on the Lord in a new way. Mel Ann and her husband live in Millry, Alabama. Their young adult children are each pursuing their degrees. They are serving members of Calvary Baptist Church in Waynesboro, Mississippi, and enjoy simple rural living. Mel Ann holds a B.A. from the School of Communication at the University of Alabama, and loves writing and speaking, both in Christian service and professionally. She has had a career in marketing/community development for three decades, most recently in the financial services industry.