A love story as delightful as it is true, GOD KEPT HIS PROMISES! A TALE OF REDEMPTION celebrates the unrecognized perseverance of Christian families-but particularly of Christian women. Meet Betsy Patterson, a long-stemmed Texas rose with a few thorns that occasionally came in handy-and remarkable gifts for mentoring and inspiring others. After a lifetime of unhappy relationships, Betsy meets her most unlikely suitor: wise-cracking Army Colonel Kenneth Allard, now a talking head for NBC News but hiding a secret life as a former Preacher's Kid. He's immediately bowled over by her strength and hilarity. She sees right through his glib charm-quickly reminding him to stop taking women-and God-for granted. This book also presents a half-century perspective of a vanishing America. How else to explain the bedrock of love that made two very different people perfect for each other? Their individual stories display recurring patterns of hope and reversal, of humor and heartbreak: but mostly about sheer grit. It turns out that Betsy and Ken are perfect counterpoints-or possibly that God has a great sense of humor!
Colonel Kenneth Allard (U.S. Army, Ret.) is a soldier, scholar, and prolific author whose career has taken him from the minefields of Bosnia to the studios of NBC News, where he served as a principal military analyst for nearly a decade. Shockingly over-educated, (MPA Harvard, PhD, Fletcher School, Tufts) Ken still insists he was merely getting even for being drafted "in one of the last mistakes of the Vietnam War." He has taught at West Point, Georgetown University, and was Dean of the National War College. His previous books include Command, Control, and the Common Defense; and Warheads: Cable News and the Fog of War.. He and Betsy today reside in San Antonio, despite occasional Democrat-inspired rumors of a recount.
