{"product_id":"9780692749449","title":"The Destination","description":"The Kaminsky family lived under Communism and behind the iron curtain for generations. Vita and everyone she knew thought people who believed in God were ignorant and primitive. She hated being a Jew and despised the idea of going to Israel. In the late 1980's, when Perestroika allowed Jews to leave Russia, she had big dreams for success.\u003cp\u003eLooking for love and wealth, she left Russia for America, but nothing went as planned. Her life was a wild ride-and an amazing testimony to the incredible power and persistence of the loving God she refused to acknowledge. For years He let her live in the messes she made, each time rescuing her at the last minute, until she finally called out to Him.\u003cbr\u003eVita's journey of transformation with dreams, wonders and miracles, dramatic relationships, divorce, and death ends with a divine love story that brings her to Peculiar, USA. You will never forget her story!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is the trailer for the book:\u003cbr\u003ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W0Mu8gIPma0\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt Wasn't My Idea To Write This Book. \u003cbr\u003eMany times, after sharing my testimony in churches and congregations, people had asked me if I had the story of my life written in a book.\u003cbr\u003eAt first I didn't pay attention to those questions about the book, but as people continued requesting, I prayed and asked God if this was His idea.\u003cbr\u003eI am like Gideon, always trying to make sure that I hear the right voice. In my prayer I said, \"God if this is your will, please give me another direct confirmation. Please let someone say these exact words to me, 'Oxana, you need to write a book of your testimony.'\"\u003cbr\u003eA few weeks later, we did a revival service in Butler, Missouri. I had only forty-five minutes to share and sing, so I couldn't even share my whole story, just a little part of it.\u003cbr\u003eAt the very end, when almost everybody had left, a woman approached me and without any greeting, with no \"hello\" or \"shalom,\" she said to me: \"Oxana you need to write a book of your testimony.\"\u003cbr\u003eWow! I had goose bumps. This surely was the confirmation. I knew I had to take it seriously now.\u003cbr\u003eHow in the world could I write a book? I even have an accent in every language that I speak. It just seemed to be a huge giant that I would never be able to fight.\u003cbr\u003eFinally, I pulled myself together and wrote one page of the book. I felt very proud of myself and even showed my first page to some friends. To my big surprise, they said they liked it, but I couldn't go any further. It just was too hard for me. I felt like Jonah, who didn't want to go to Nineveh.\u003cbr\u003eOne day after ministering in a Russian church in Oregon, one young lady came to talk to us. She wanted us to go together for dinner. At the restaurant she asked Boaz and me to share a story about how we met, and we gladly told her our love story.The next day she wrote me on Facebook that our story really touched her heart and also gave her hope and encouragement.\u003cbr\u003eWell, I thought to myself, why should I write the whole story of my life, it's so long and complicated? Why not to start with a shorter story?\u003cbr\u003eI felt like I found a solution. I would just create a love story novel, which was also a great testimony and had a message by itself. I even had a catchy title for it, \"How I Met My Boaz and Ended Up in Peculiar.\"\u003cbr\u003eI started writing, but still struggled. So I decided to take a writing course online. I also read a book called Writing Life Stories by Bill Roorbach and signed up for critique writing groups.\u003cbr\u003eWhen I brought my writings to the critique group and read the first chapter of my love story, they said to me, \"You can't just start the story like that. You have to give us some background.\"\u003cbr\u003eI wrote three pages of my background and came to the writing group again.\u003cbr\u003eI read my new pages with the condensed and compressed story of my life, hoping that now I would be done with the background and will be able to concentrate and continue with my love story again........ But it didn't fly....\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxana Eliahu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027590463728,"sku":"9780692749449","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780692749449_p0.jpg?v=1763616766","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692749449","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}