Maria Martínez – författare

This memoir describes the emotional pain of growing up fatherless and reveals Gods amazing love at work to heal childhood hurts, even through circumstances of rejection.

When author Maria Martinez was just three years old, she heard the word illegitimate for the fi rst time. Though she was too young to understanding its meaning as it applied to her, she knew it made her feel different and ashamed.

In The Apple Tree Wish, Martinez discusses her lifes events being branded an illegitimate child. She also shows the healing and wholeness she received through Christs love and reconciliation with her father later in life.

A two-part presentation, the first half delivers a transcript of a talk Martinez gave for a womens group in 1992. In it, she narrates the events leading up to meeting her father in 1985, when she was forty-five years old. The second half contains a journal of the letters she wrote to and later shared with her father. In the journal she provides pertinent details of her life and shares her many emotions as she dealt with her unique situation.

The Apple Tree Wish shows the emotional scars created by being a fatherless child, but also communicates that Gods love has the power to heal the classic types of childhood hurts.

El libro de Apocalipsis o la revelacion del Senor Jesucristo, no es solamente un libro de malas noticias, de juicios, epidemias, de grandes cataclismos cosmicos y de un futuro gobierno mundialmente tenebroso. Tambien es el mensaje del mas grande amor que pueda existir, el amor de Dios para salvar a la humanidad del terrible final que tendran que enfrentar todos aquellos que no quisieron creer en el Senor Jesucristo y prefirieron alejarse de el. Es un libro que vale la pena estudiar por la ubicacion que tiene justo al final de los evangelios y de las epistolas. Ademas, porque representa el ultimo acto para poder completar el evangelio del Senor Jesucristo y porque es el unico libro de la Biblia que habla del principio y del final de todos los tiempos.

The book of Revelation or The Revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ is not just a book of bad news, judgments, epidemics, great cosmic cataclysms, and a future world government full of darkness. It is also the message of the greatest love that can exist, God''s love to save humanity from the terrible end that all those who did not want to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and chose to distance themselves from him will have to face. It is a book worth studying because of its placement at the end of the gospels and the Epistles. Furthermore, it represents the final act to complete the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and is the only book in the Bible that speaks of the beginning and the end of all times.

Fuimos creados a imagen y semejanza de Dios, por lo tanto, usted es un ser amado por El. A lo largo de la historia de la humanidad podemos ver que el hombre hace planes para guiar su vida, pero es Dios el que dirige sus pasos. Por lo tanto, El nos ha dado un manual para saber como podemos tener una vida plena y satisfactoria en todas las areas de nuestra vida. Por lo que tambien, nos ha equipado con dones y talentos para poder ser capaces de producir el fruto de su esencia. Esto lo hizo Dios a traves de su Espiritu Santo para que todos los que formamos el cuerpo de Cristo, seamos capacitados para servir y adorar a Dios con nuestro diario vivir, gozando de todos los privilegios y responsabilidades que tenemos como hijos de Dios.

We were created in the image and likeness of God, and therefore, you are a beloved being in His eyes. Throughout human history, we can see that people make plans to guide their lives, but it is God who directs their steps. He has given us a manual to understand how we can live a fulfilling and satisfying life in all areas. Additionally, He has equipped us with gifts and talents to produce the fruit of His essence. God did this through His Holy Spirit so that all of us who are part of the body of Christ may be empowered to serve and worship God through our daily lives, enjoying all the privileges and responsibilities we have as children of God.