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Come explore this book and find hope, as well as peace and comfort, and the end to your pain and suffering. If you have been betrayed at times and made to feel worthless and unlovable, this is the book for you. That is what Satan wants, so he can defeat you! This book speaks of pain, suffering, and victory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Only He can bring the inner healing, for there is a child injured and hurting inside of you or your loved one that longs for the pain to stop. Please come to the healing waters and allow Jesus to bring you to the end of the guilt, shame, and indescribable pain you are experiencing. You or your loved one has been violated and betrayed; you need to be set free. Your secret keeps you captive, ashamed, and bitter. Jesus can turn the bitter into sweet and your tragedy into triumph. He has the power to deliver and raise us up and bring closure once and for all. The Bible says: I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. Please claim Philippians 4:13 as your own. He longs to be our comfort and give us courage to face each day. He is the mighty God, who walked on water! We find His power at work in our lives as we place our hand in His and follow Him!

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Publié par	Inspiring Voices
Date de parution	31 janvier 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781462408900
Langue	English

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Copyright © 2014 Connie Harris.

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ISBN: 978-1-4624-0889-4 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4624-0890-0 (e)

Inspiring Voices rev. date: 01/28/2013

Contents
Prologue Chapter 1 A Home Full of Love and Unity Chapter 2 Meeting Our New “Daddy!” Chapter 3 Enduring the Abuse and Becoming a Woman! Chapter 4 Moving Forward after Living with “Satan’s Brother!” Chapter 5 Starting a New Life with Jesus! Chapter 6 God Faithfully Answers Our Prayers. Chapter 7 God’s Mercy Can Help Us Overcome the Past! Chapter 8 Looking For The family Circle to Be Complete and Not Broken! Chapter 9 Praying and Trusting God to Survive!

I want to dedicate this book to Marilyn C. Roark (K atie).
To my forever friend and inspir ation.
May we always Overcome and Survive every storm of life Through Jesus Christ our Lord!

Prologue
C ome explore this book and find hope, as well as peace and comfort, and the end to your pain and suffering. If you have been betrayed at times and made to feel worthless and unlovable, this is the book for you. That is what Satan wants, so he can defea t you!
This book speaks of pain, suffering and victory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Only He can bring the inner healing, for there is a child injured and hurting inside of you, or your loved one, that longs for the pain to stop.
Please come to the healing waters and allow Jesus to bring you to the end of the guilt, shame, and indescribable pain you feel and are experiencing. You or your loved one has been violated and betrayed; you need to be set free. Your secret keeps you captive, ashamed and b itter.
Jesus can turn the bitter into sweet and your tragedy into triumph. He has the power to deliver and raise us up and bring closure once and for all. The Bible says: I can do all things thru Christ, who strengthens me…please claim Philippians 4:13 as your own. He longs to be our comfort and give us courage to face each day. He is the mighty God, who walked on water! We find His power at work in our lives as we place our hand in His and follo w Him!

Chapter 1
A Home Full of Love and Unity
H ave you ever experienced a home where you felt such love and contentment, that it was always a nice feeling to be there? Each family member cared about you and there was family unity and Jesus was always present. The family prayed and loved each other and holidays were special. That is what it was like at my grandparents’ house.
My grandfather and grandmother Smith worked very hard to take care of their children. They were poor and didn’t have much, but there was a lot of love. Grandpa Charlie was a decent man and a good example and had a great sense of humor. Grandma Flossie always told each of us that God had promised to do everything possible to reach each member of our family with His love. Grandma could sew a dress without a pattern for her girls and re-sew shirts and pants for her sons, which she acquired from the missionaries’ sales at church. She always taught us a sense of right and wrong and was faithful to take us to church on Sunday. She would sing beautiful songs to Jesus and you could feel her love for Him in each song. She was smart and very resourceful and could stretch a dollar farther than anyone we knew. She worked hard in the fields with my grandfather to bring in the crops. They also did the canning, so we would have food for the winter from the crops.
She taught us values and gave us a sense of great worth. I’m sure that she will never know just how much we all gained from her wisdom and her love for Jesus.
Uncle Ruben Hayes was their first born son. He never married anyone nor had children. He was always different and a bit of a loner.
My mom, Jacqueline, was their second child and first daughter. Grandpa always had a special love for her. Grandpa named her himself; he loved the name Jacqueline. My mom was a tomboy and loved to climb trees and play in the creek with her bro thers.
Uncle Shelby Clark Smith was their third child, and second son. Mom and he would go to church together and bond very tightly as brother and s ister.
My uncle Edward Walden Smith was their fourth child, and third son. Although he was younger, he seemed to be at his sister and his older brother’s heals all of the time. He also would climb trees and play in the creek, as well as go to church with f amily.
My uncle Victor Smith was their fifth child, and fourth son. Tragedy would strike as their two year old son, Victor was injured and died. In the spring, when they were heating the water in big pans outside on the fire to prepare to wash the meat, so they could salt it; he got too close to the fire and hot water!
It broke my grandmother’s heart when he died, so Grandpa Smith moved the family away from the area so my grandmother could heal and find peace from the loss of their son. He is now in heaven with Jesus.
My Aunt Madeline Joy was their sixth child and second daughter. My mom fell in love with her little sister and was very protective of her. She didn’t want my grandparents to ever spank her, even when she need ed it!
Uncle James Berkley (Buddy) was their seventh child and fourth son. He was very special and extremely close to my mother, who helped to take care of him as she did her chores and played games wit h him.
When my mother was only 15 years old she got involved with a young man in the church. She became pregnant with me. My grandfather was angry and demanded that mom and my father marry to give me a legal name, because it was shameful for a young girl to be pregnant and unmarried in the South back in 1948. My father agreed to marry mom, but left town soon afterwards and married someone else, leaving my mom and grandfather to face the burden. The church people talked and gossiped all of the time and were very unkind to mom. It got so bad that my mom didn’t even want to go to church! It was painful and difficult for mom to face a pregnancy alone, because the people were harsh and judgmental to an unmarried young girl with a baby!
Now as odd as it seems, my grandmother was also pregnant at this time with a change of life baby. She had a baby girl, Katie born 7 months previous to me. She had made the remark to my mother “Neither one of us have any business having a baby, because I’m too old and you’re certainly too young!” My mother could not have a child naturally, so they had to operate to deliver me. Grandpa had to sell the family cow to pay the bills for the del ivery.
After I was born, she took me and went to work as a nanny in Michigan, because she was too young to get work and care for me any other way. It was only she and I for a while, but then she began to date again. She fell in love with a soldier and they became involved. Later mom would have my brother Larry, and my sister Sandie b y him.
He was not ready for a family and was very irresponsible, and as a result, he began to cheat and seek other ladies and their companionship to escape reality and the burden of a family. They finally came to realize that the love was all gone and it was time to move on. They parted ways and mom took us to my grandparents to live. She got a job at the bus station waiting tables to suppo rt us.
This is a home where we felt love and acceptance and I first learned about God and his great love for us through the influence an example of my Christian grandmother. As I grew to understand God…my grandmother would play a vital part in pointing me in the right dire ction!
Katie and I were always into some kind of mischief. We were always into trouble; sometimes we would strip off our little suns suits and go patting our little behinds at two years old, while running around the yard! Other times we would play in the flour bin in Granny’s pantry!