I AM

Good morning, my sisters in Christ Jesus. Welcome to "Safe Haven Ministry", I pray you are blessed this Monday morning.

(Matt. 14:27), He spoke to them saying Take courage! I AM! Stop being afraid!

I was born on August 22, 1964, the third child of my siblings. I grew up on the south side of Chicago from 79th and Escanaba to 127th Parnell. If any of you are from Chicago. I was an average child, in fact, I was always late for curfew. My sisters and I played Hopscotch, double-dutch rope, jacks, and softball with sewer lids as bases. I was an average student in my classes.

I'm not sure when I started wetting the bed, but I remember getting whipped daily for ruining sheets. It got so bad that I would take my sheets off the bed and throw them in the garbage on my way to school. At one point my mattress was taken away and I slept on springs that were made of some type of square springs, that's the best I can describe what bedframes were at that time in the seventies.

The whipping got so bad that my third-grade teacher, Mrs. West noticed when she called me to the front of the class to work on the board. She touched my back and I remember saying, "ouch". Then she took me outside of the classroom, raised my shirt up, witnessed new scars overlapping old ones, told me to go back to the classroom, and she went to the office. I did not know what happened with that but when I went home for lunch my mother looked at the scars on my back and that was that.

I didn't know anything about Child Protective Service, I love my siblings and even to this day, I'm glad that I didn't have to leave.

LET US PRAY!

Heavenly Father, we give you praise and honor due to you, we pray that your grace and mercy cover our sins. We pray that you create in us a clean heart and right spirit. Father, we thank you for life and for keeping us covered under your wings of security. As we go about our day, thank you for keeping us on the path of righteousness that you set before us. In Jesus' Name Amen! 





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