Walk with Author Samantha Personett on her journey in nature where she found hope, strength, and most of all freedom once again to serve Jesus Christ without the bondage of mankind's ideals. As she started to really look to God for answers in her life, she noticed it was away from people and out in nature-God's creation. She was able to just open her mind and heart to God and thank him for everything in his creation. She remembers feeling so overwhelmed that he made all this beauty for her and all of mankind! She remembers back walking on the shores of Lake Michigan at Weko Beach. That day, the wind and the fresh air were so exhilarating, the vas water before her! God met her there, freeing her from a lifetime of weights and burdens from the church's traditions and rules that kept her from being the free Christian that God wanted her to be! She began to look beyond mankind's ways and started to Rise Above to God's Ways Her life would be changed forever! No more worrying about what others wanted for her in the church but what God wanted and no more carrying the guilt around of her divorce, as God no longer wanted her to stay in a relationship involving alcohol and drugs! She is living a new wonderful life as a Christian, and she hopes that after you read this book, you will find freedom in your walk with God, forever and for always! Your own personal journey with God awaits you! If you are a leader in a church, God wants you to use wisdom when teaching and look to the ways of Jesus when he walked this earth as our example! This book will encourage you to never give up in your walk with God! Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13 and 14)