About this user
I was born in Niantic, Ct., near New London. Living in a neighborhood of successful professionals, and those reaching a relatively comfortable economic status, my father raised five of us eight siblings in a little four room shack, with no inside plumbing but a kitchen sink.
I grew up knowing what it was like to eat corn meal mush several meals a week, using an outside toilet, and not having a place to take a bath when I was dirty. Consequently, I was targeted in school and felt friendless.
Living with an attitude of blame, I grew distant from God in my adolescent years and I found myself scrambling to make sense of life. Amazingly, in the throes of what I consider now to be a last chance effort to have relationship with God, He encountered me in a powerful way and changed my life.
I remember when the light dawned. I was fifteen and living with my sister in Georgia for the summer, having gotten into trouble in Conn. I no longer wanted to live with the guilt, confusion, and emptiness bolting from one side of my brain to the other. I realized there had to be more!
When I finally came to accept that God actually could love me, I fought and begged for forgiveness and restoration. Since then, Ive been on a highway of healing and guidance towards wholeness. As stock as this sounds, a light has dawned where darkness and emotional confusion had reigned. God meets us where we are, and brings us back to where we need to be. God is always ready to hear!
My son, a literature major, told me that there are a lot of good writers in the world, but only a few have found what to write about. I think that this may be my time to write. Through the years things have found a place to settle in my heart, where God has nurtured them and fanned the flames that have become my passion to write about.
Ive been accused of writing from within my background of poorness. I suppose theres truth to that, as God molds a man from where he lay in the clay. But I see another reason for my style. I think the heart of Jesus is for the underlings and unlovely. Those that know they would be, and are, nothing without His investment in their lives. Ive chosen to relate to that individual in my writing, as Ive been fortunate to struggle in those areas myself. Ive made myself vulnerable in my writing to accomplish that.
Hometown
Charlotte
Country
United States
Occupation
Writer
Interests
Hanging out with family
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