Book Release: I Can't Stop These Living Waters by Patricia Ann Rice

Join us for the release of Patricia Ann Rice's I Can't Stop These Living Waters! 

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About I Can't Stop These Living Waters:

The pages in this book represent the lives and issues that many have encountered. The struggles, trauma, and what led to healing by addressing the issues and allowing ourselves to feel and heal.You will see addicted behavior, domestic violence and sexual assault, racial injustice, parenting struggles, combat veterans’ trauma, and others all dealt with using love and even some biting humor. Patricia Ann Rice reflects on fun times with your family, rejoicing over your grandmother, and taking time to relax, doing something as simple as taking a bubble bath. She also does not shy away from the struggles in male/female relationships but uses storytelling to seek understanding in these social dynamics. Patricia also explores the prison system and unpacking the experiences of incarcerated men and women. She explores how there can be spiritual cleansing through direction and inspiration by using the poetic style layered with Godly insight.Patricia Ann Rice shows how by looking at the issues we face, there can be restoration. 

About Patricia Ann Rice:

Patricia has been a minister of God’s Word since 1992. She started with Prison Fellowship as a gifted facilitator and Bible teacher at California state prisons for men, women, and the now-defunct Youth Authority. Until his death in 2014, Patricia assisted her husband, the Elder Herbert Rice, with his work as a registered drug and alcohol abuse counselor and CEO of Redirected Lives Inc., a home for male ex-felons.
A retired early childhood educator, Patricia continues to care for young children in her own licensed childcare and preschool facility. Patricia also assist parents in various homeless shelters for mothers and their children, teaching parenting skills and offering Biblical guidance.

Patricia has traveled doing various retreats and conferences performing ISSUES, a play written by her. She started writing poetry in 2001, after her first play was copyrighted. She uses her creative gifts in drama and poetry to spread awareness and healing.

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Praise for I Can't Stop These Living Waters:

"Patricia Rice’s poetry is a testimony from the lips of the creator. I have seen firsthand how her art has stirred audiences. Her work is deeply rooted in hope and will change this world." Tommy Domino, author of Switches, Hot wheel Tracks & Extension Cords

"Patricia Rice is a gifted storyteller whose detailed rhymes perfectly set a time and place with each of her poems.  Characters are revealed in unique imagery. The scenes are brilliantly painted and it leaves the reader always wanting more of the story to be told." Gia Civerolo is the author of She Confuses Lovers, Movies, Angels and Poems.

"[Black Velvet Man] is a powerful piece that resonates deeply, guiding the reader along a seamless flow, each line sparking a thirst to uncover his journey—a Black man of unshakable strength, grounded firmly in his beliefs. It’s a true honor to have read such an inspiring work, and I am grateful for the opportunity." Valdas L. Partee, Founder and Writer, Poetically Designed