Book excerpt: Thrown into the Troubled Sea By: Patricia Summers People say, “It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it.” Three countries, several lives, but one family. It is Patricia Summers’ past, future, and present. Just a small kid that was thrown into the sea of life; deemed at birth she would be in a children’s nursing home, but her God stepped in and had other plans for her. A team of doctors took twenty-three hours to do the surgery. One, at that time, was not done before and one was a complete success, but down through her life she was one of them, to show that the struggles in the sea do not cause you to drown, she was able to walk on the other shore, cold, wet, and shaken, but on a firm foundation, with God by her side.