"God's Work" is about our everyday heroes and their reflection to do God's Work. The events in this book demostrates what it means to get involve. This book will truly get you the reader to better understand there are many heroes out there and what they mean to us all. They consist of everyday Citizens, Family members, Law Enforcement Officers, Firefighters, Emergency Rescue Teams, Medical and Military Personnel. This book talks about one of those heroes. He is a retired highly decorated Law Enforcement Officer, and citizen. This book talks about the writers personal experience with helping many people. It also talks about the lives that were saved and how the writer feels it was a reflection on "God's Work". The writer Abe Usera talks about some of the events that took place in his life that he felt was a reflection on "God's Work. The events had taken place throughout his childhood and adult life. This book contains events that are truly heart touching. The contents in this book has accurate perception of what it is to be a believer of God's Work. The events told by Abe are true to the best of his ability. You will notice some of the events told involved some of Abe's family. Some family members are victims and some were doing God's Work. Abe writes about how he feels through Faith, Love and Charity "God's Work" got him through it all.

God's Work

By Abe Usera

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Copyright © 2010 Abe Usera
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ISBN: 978-1-4520-1035-9

Contents

About the Author...............................................................................1Picture of Abe & Bishop........................................................................5Picture of JFK Award...........................................................................6Introduction by Abraham Usera..................................................................9Illustration of God's Work.....................................................................11Event #1.......................................................................................13Event #2.......................................................................................17Event #3.......................................................................................21Event #4.......................................................................................25Picture of Abe and Pat as Teenagers............................................................28Event #5.......................................................................................31Event #6.......................................................................................35Event #7.......................................................................................39Event #8.......................................................................................43Picture of Unborn Project......................................................................45Event #9.......................................................................................47Event #10......................................................................................51Event #11......................................................................................55Picture of Chief Abe Usera.....................................................................57Picture of 25th Renewal of Vows................................................................58Event #12......................................................................................61Picture of Abe as a Key West Police Officer....................................................64Conclusion of Events...........................................................................67Event #13......................................................................................69Picture of Christopher as an Altar Boy.........................................................71Picture of Altare Dei Medal Presentation.......................................................72Event #14......................................................................................75Picture of Antoinette as a Child...............................................................77Event #15......................................................................................79Picture of Charity Work with Pat Usera.........................................................82Picture of Police Cadets Graduation............................................................83Ending of the Events...........................................................................84Letter from Msgr. Michael Woster...............................................................85Picture of God's Work - feeding the poor.......................................................86Picture of God's Work - toys for the needed....................................................87Picture of Abe and Pat at St. Ambrose Church...................................................88Abe's Family as of This Date and Time 2010.....................................................89Community Involvement..........................................................................91Recognitions...................................................................................94Letters of Appreciation from Organizations.....................................................97Final Note.....................................................................................98Closing Facts About Law Enforcement............................................................99Officer's in United States of America..........................................................100Picture of Abe and His Family as a Baltimore City Maryland, Police Officer.....................101

Chapter One

EVENT #1

It was the year of 1952, when I was approximately eight year's old, living in New Orleans, Louisiana, when this event took place.

It was a warm and beautiful sunny day in New Orleans. My brothers John, Luis, Roland and my sister Carmen were playing in the back yard with other children from the neighborhood. Our neighbors were good people to us. One of them name Ms Price lived up stairs from our family. She would always bring to our family some Lemon Aid. As a small kid, I always thought she made the best Lemon Aid in the World. Maybe it was because of the egg shape and juicy fruit taste that I loved about the lemon. When ever Ms Price would buy a large bag of lemons she would always have some ready to give to me. It was a treat when she gave me the lemons.

My mother was inside the house and I was just sitting on the front porch enjoying my tasteful lemons, when there appeared to be a sound of loud music coming down the street. It was a sound of music familiar to all the kids in the neighborhood. It was the Traveling Merry Go Round Truck, which had small wooden horses on it. When the truck arrived near my house, it parked across the street from where I was sitting. The music would continue to play on. The children in the neighborhood all ran to their parents for money to get on the ride. You see the price for a ride on the Merry Go Round Truck at that time was five cents. I also pleaded to my mother for a nickel. She said she didn't have a nickel on her. Standing next to her was Ms Price. Ms Price said she had a nickel and offered it to me to go on the ride.

So with a happy face and with excitement, I proceeded to cross the street to get on the ride. All the kids including me were having a lot of fun laughing as we went round and round with the music playing. When most of us got off the Merry Go Round we were a little dizzy. As kids we kind of laughed about it. After the ride I started to cross the street, when suddenly things had changed my life. That's when a speeding car driven by a female drunken driver hit me.

As my mother recalled, she said I flew up in the air and landed on the street, a few feet from the vehicle. Moments later I recalled waking up seeing my mother looking down at me crying. I was also crying with a lot of pain. Within moments after that, I black out. The next time I can recall waking up and looking up at my mother and the ambulance personnel. At that time I was lying on the stretcher inside the ambulance. My mother was still crying and saying, "Oh my God don't let anything happen to my baby". "You will be alright Baby". The attendants also said to me "everything will be okay". That's when I black out again. On route to the hospital I can hear the sound of the sirens coming from the ambulance.

When I arrived at the hospital I woke up to see a man dress in white style uniform clothing. He had in his hands a large metal ice cream cone shape object. I learned later it was used to stretch my broken bones. The procedure hurt so bad I black out again. One of the most important events in my life then took place. I woke up again and observed a Catholic Priest given me my last Rites.

As he was blessing me I fell asleep. I found myself walking down a colorful...